Hey Everyone,
Hope you are all having a great week? Just wondered if anyone could give me some advice as to how to overcome a very bad miscarriage.
I'm 43 next month and my best wishes came true when I found out I was pregnant in early June this year.
I've had a roller coaster pregnancy and at 5.5 weeks I started bleeding after my dog became ill. For a week and a half I visited the EPC in my local hospital as I was being monitored for an ectopic pregnancy, my gestation sac couldn't be pin pointed. Finally after many blood tests later and a 6 week scan, the nurse stated there was a baby and heart beat growing in my uterus. We were all overjoyed, I simply couldn't believe it.
I was given a 2 week course of progesterone pessaries and was visited by my midwife shortly after. She confirmed that my blood results were good, my scan was clear and that I was doing well.
Last Monday I was swimming on holiday in the sea and I felt a slight twitch so stopped immediately. 2 hours later I noticed a brown discharge when wiping. A day later I mentioned it to my midwife but she told me not to worry as it was probably related to the progesterone tablets I was on.
The bleeding was very light and continued all week. I alerted my midwife again that I was still bleeding and she suggested to alert the hospital. I was offered a scan on the 26th July but was told not to worry and it was booked for my own reasurrance.
Then at the weekend my worst fear happened. I started cramping around midnight in great pain on Sunday and within hours was losing excessive amounts of blood. 111 couldn't send me out an ambulance as there weren't any available. I eventually called 999 and within 35 minutes an ambulance arrived. 111 cost me an 2 extra hours. By this stage I was clammy and hot, also very frightened.
The ambulance arrived and I was whisked into A and E and put onto a blood slowing and 2 hydration drips and was later moved to an emergency ward. My doctor said that after a few hours my condition had stabilised and that I would be going to Theatre first thing to have everything left removed. I was mortified and horrified, I thought everything had come out. Luckily the EPC intervened and said they wanted to scan me before operating and I was relieved when they told me there was only a little tissue left in my cervix. I was given tablets to finish the process although they didn't work. I finally went back to hospital yesterday and they were able to remove the left over deposits. I was relieved and very thankful to the doctor.
Has anyone suffered a similar experience? Im very frightened that this could happen again. I hope to try again but how do you overcome the anxiety of losing baby 2 and the fear of ending up in an emergency ward again?
Many thanks
Cheryl