HELP!! 6 weeks and totally unsure - non viable?

[Tropicrider]

Hi, pls help. First day of last period 2/8/19 so I would have been 6 weeks Friday. Had a blood test but dr won’t give results over phone even though I’m 3 hours away. Had internal and the other scan. Got told no fetal pole seen and no cardiac activity, I’m having zero pregnancy symptoms and I’ve been spotting and brown discharge continuously for about a week now. Scan also says peri-sac haemorrhage

If you believe you are miscarrying you really ought to get to a hospital. Why is it two weeks before you can get to a doctor?

Oh OP I hope you’re ok, can you not go the hospital?
It doesn’t sound promising OP, no foetal pole isn’t good , you would expect to see that at this stage. However your dates could be a bit behind and a week could show a different picture . Take it easy on yourself .

I’ve never misscarried so I don’t know but the sad voice they said “no fetal pole” I’m assuming that means I’ll miss carry, the closest hospital is 3 hours away. I work fulltime (and I don’t get paid if I don’t work) I’m not in any pain and when I tried to call the dr to get answers the women said no we don’t give that out if it’s urgent he will let you know otherwise don’t worry about it! But what do I do next? I’m having spotting etc but that can be normal? I’m very definite on my dates, I’m just annoyed no one seems to give a crap. I even begged the receptionist - wouldn’t you want answers if you were sitting here potentially miscarrying? She didn’t care and wouldn’t let me speak to dr.
I only know what that scan report said because I called and asked the can place what they could do and they sent it to me

Thank you. The closest hospital is 3 hours away. I’m rural. I work fulltime, If I don’t work I don’t get paid. I can go on weekends but I have stepkids at home and my partner is working away remotely so I can’t contact him. Not to mention to cost to get down. I’m not in pain or anything. I just have no idea.

You don’t need to get to a hospital as a medical emergency. There’s nothing a hospital could do anyway, sadly. But I understand you want to know what’s going on.

What you were told - no fetal pole - doesn’t match those scan results, which basically say there was one with a CRL (crown-rump length) of 6.1mm. Usually you would expect to see a heartbeat at that size, and no cardiac activity would be a likely miscarriage, but given they also told you no embryo and then gave you results saying ‘embryo present’ then it’s possible there’s been a mixup somewhere along the line.

I’m really sorry, being in limbo is just awful.

Thank you - sorry they never said they couldn’t see an embryo - they did say in the scan (internal) “ yes we can see a tiny baby there but def no cardiac activity and def no fetal pole” also she called in a second sonographer who agreed with the first. So that would say it’s non viable right? They showed me yolk and sac and said the above all in super sad voices. I have been spotting for a week. Can that happen with a misscarriage - I’m assuming. I’ll know if I start getting way more pain and bleeding but can that take time to happen?

Also - would a blood test help to determine - like if the pregnancy was not viable would it show in dropped levels or something?

A fetal pole is an embryo, at its earliest stage. Is it possible you misheard? (Not to question you, just that I’ve been in that situation and I know it can be really hard to take much in.)

You would usually expect to see a heartbeat at 6mm, and no heartbeat would be a bad sign.

A blood test will measure your hCG, which rises with pregnancy. Usually you’d need two blood tests at least 48 hours apart before they could really tell you anything. That’s typically just for very early pregnancy though - if you can already see an embryo on ultrasound then blood tests won’t tell you that much.

Really sorry you’re going through this. Can you call your doctor again and hope you get a different receptionist?

Oh - ok then. Well now I’m super confused! They def said what I said. Because I remember thinking she would say embryo not “tiny baby” but they said one then the other so maybe they saw wrong then corrected?

I’ll try the doctor again. Might get lucky but I doubt it. I did tell her can she please pass a message on. Which who knows if she will and she just repeated he will tell you if it’s urgent. They are unfortunately one of those bulk churn everyone through quickly clinics. It’s just that the doctor there is really good with migraines which is why I normally see him so he turned into my dr.

And for the rest of it then I guess the only thing left is the bleeding and light cramping (which could mean nothing I know ) and that there was no heartbeat. So I don’t know. Guess I’ll book another appointment for a fortnight when I can go again. And I guess if I get like a full period in the meantime I’ll cancel it as I’ll have my answer

The heartbeat starts in the 6th week. The sizes sound ok for the weeks to me. You might have juat been too soon for a heartbeat. They have said their is an embryo as they have been able to measure CRL. Good luck!

Hi everyone. Just went for another scan - after all that baby measures at 17mm (something like that) and HB of 165 I think she said. So there you go. I’m pregnant. I even got the congratulations. I’ve had no symptoms and bleeding stopped. Now I have a maaaasive migraine thinking about telling my husband who after his ex wife absolutely dragged him through the mud with his only child custody wise has zero zero zero desire for more kids. :/