Extremely heavy bleeding & clots the size of my fist

[JenfaK]

Hi,

Sorry for the graphic title

At the end of Feb I had a miscarriage (had an MVA to deal with it) which was recently diagnosed as a partial molar pregnancy. I had one very light period at the end of May but that was the first bleeding I'd had since before finding out I was pregnant.

Anyway yesterday morning I suddenly started bleeding, like A LOT. So much so that it soaked through to my shorts within seconds. I rang my local maternity hospital and they advised that if it didn't stop then to go to A&E - which eventually I did.
The blood was coming in gushes every half hour or so and these gushes would soak through 3 pads, two pairs of underwear, shorts and a towel and would be accompanied by huge blood clots the size of my first. I was having some cramping which was a little worse and sharper than period cramps.
After a traumatic wait to be checked in to A&E where I bled through yet another pair of shorts in a queue without access to a toilet (it was occupied) I was seen and looked after very well by the nurses.

I eventually had an examination from the gynaecologist at a point where the bleeding wasn't THAT bad so he couldn't see the extent and assumed it wasn't anything to be alarmed about. Even though I just told him that I'd just bled all over the floor of the toilet cubicle and the nurse had to help me and he could ask her to tell him that it was a significant amount.

Anyway they told me that it's likely that my body is just "resetting" after the miscarriage and sent me away with a course of Norethisterone (progesterone) and some anti-coagulant. They'll hopefully schedule me for an ultrasound asap as they couldn't do it since the ultrasound team had gone home by the time we got seen.

The bleeding seems to have calmed down this morning but I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced anything like this. I'm not one to panic easily but I was alarmed at the amount of blood and particularly the size and amount of clots that I passed.

Thanks for reading

I just went through the same thing last week. Had a D&C in December and normal period beginning of February. Then randomly had an enormous gush of blood that went through my pants followed by 8 hours of heavy bleeding with the biggest clots of blood I have ever seen, like the size of a fist. Had several ultrasounds done in the hospital and given meds for the bleeding. HCG was 99. A week later during follow up, its now 160ish. Getting hysteroscopy soon and hoping for the best. My D&C pathology was normal, lost the fetus at 9 weeks. How are you doing now?

Hiya - so sorry you're going through this too!

Everything settled down after this really and my periods carried on fairly normally. Although recently they have been extremely light - like, literally just some spotting for a few days, so I'm keeping an eye on that.

We have been TTC again since August but no luck yet and actually have decided to get some private fertility tests done soon so check there's nothing amiss (I'm 33 so I don't want to wait around)

How are you doing with it all now? Have you been coping well? I've found it all very difficult - especially TTC again and having that rollercoaster of emotions every month.