Miscarriage advice

[Keeponmovin123]

Hi - I'm 9+1 and since Saturday have had bleeding which has got progressively heavier, red, clots and cramps which leads me to believe I am miscarrying. This isn't my first pregnancy but it is my first miscarriage.

As it has been a bank holiday I've had to wait until this morning to speak to my GP. I did try '111' yesterday but they weren't particularly helpful and when I told the operator I was miscarrying he actually asked "have you had your baby?".

All the appointments at the local EPU are full for today so my GP advised to go to A&E which I'd rather not do due to waiting/bleeding.

Does anyone know if they can definitely scan me at A&E or will I be sent away still none-the-wiser?

Thank you in advance

Hi,
Sorry for you loss.
Purely from experience I would go to A&E. This happened to me. It was a job getting from the car park to the A&E reception desk. Every toilet I passed I had to stop because I was bleeding so much but as soon I said I was miscarrying and heavily bleeding she sent me straight to majors.
I stayed there for about an hr while the did blood tests, urine tests and put me on a drip. They then send me to the gynaecology ward. They did multiple scans, more blood tests and arranged for me to go back in a weeks for more bloods ect to make sure I had cleared everything and that my HCG were coming down.

I think A&E is better. Simply because you will get looked at then and there. Rather than having to go to your GP and wait for appointments.

Hope this helps x 💐

My experience is the opposite to the previous poster - I went to a very big hospital with my first miscarriage (at 12 weeks) which does have a dedicated EPU/Gyno unit however a&e wouldn't send me up for a scan. They did blood tests etc then said to go home and see what happens and booked me in for a scan 2 days later.

They do that to avoid lots of reassurance scans being taken up by people who don't really need them and also because if it's a miscarriage there is really very very little they can do.

Waiting in a&e whilst cramping and bleeding is not a good place to be - I've done 4 miscarriages at home now. I was told to only go in If i soaked through more than 1 pad every 15 mins or so.

I would stay home take lots of warm baths as this relaxes the uterus muscles and have someone with you x

Thank you both for your replies.

I managed to get an apt at another EPU yesterday morning just as I was about to leave for A & E. The scan confirmed what I already knew - that growth had stopped a few weeks ago and the pregnancy wasn’t viable. I was also advised that as the miscarriage had already started it was likely to continue which it did with a vengeance last night where I bled heavily for 12 hours passing large clots. It was difficult to tell what was happening.

This morning it was back to a normal period and I thought I was over the worst. Unfortunately it has decided to ramp up again this afternoon just as my kids arrived back from school.

This stopping/starting is difficult to deal with on top of everything else.