Medical management and keeping tissues for testing

[MargoGru]

I’ve been for a scan at EPU today and have had a missed miscarriage. I am around 10 weeks and have been having scans since 6 weeks due to history of complete molar pregnancy. No heartbeat today and baby was measuring 7 weeks and few days.

They’ve given me the options for surgical, medical or natural management. I’m leaning towards medical as I feel like it gives me most control.

The doctor however said that with medical or natural I’m going to need to collect the tissue and give back for testing, due to having had a molar. There’s no signs of a molar but they’ll do testing as a precaution. Has anyone any experience of collecting miscarriage products at home? How? I will obviously ask the hospital but it’s occurred to me now.

Thank you

I'm so sorry for your loss.

I was measuring around 6 weeks so not as far along as you, but I used a sieve held under me when on the toilet to catch the clots and tissue. It can be difficult to know which bit is the products of conception so I kept it all until I knew which bits were definitely just clots. They gave me a specimen pot to put it all in. I didn't look too closely at it just bunged it in the pot.

It sounds really grim and obviously it's not the nicest experience but I'm glad I went for medical management. They give you codeine so the pain is manageable.

Good luck lovely. I hope it goes as well as possible and you get some answers from the testing.

@OfCourseIStillLoveYou

thank you for sharing. I had no bleeding at all with my molar and then surgical management, so I’ve never experienced passing clots or tissue, hopefully I cope ok. I would just rather be at home than in hospital.

@MargoGru I'm so sorry you are going through this. It's awful, your story sounds the similar to mine. I opted for surgical (I was 10w) but unfortunately I was one of the minority and had retained product so have opted for medical at home.

I perhaps am ignorant but when they explained about sending tissue away for testing it didn't sit right with me, I asked them not too. They didn't.

I hope you're ok and have a good support network around you.

@SomeoneSomewhere1219 sorry for your loss and thank you for sharing.