not coping after hearing stories of misdiagnose of miscarriage in Ireland

[annie51]

Hi
I'm not new to this board but have not posted in a while. I've had 7 miscarriages the last in Feb at various stages up to 14 weeks and have 2 dd's. I live in Ireland and over the last few days have heard a lot about women being told that they have had a miscarriage and then going on to have a healthy baby due to not believing the scan results.
My hospital is involved and although I have always had more than one scan and in some of the pregnancies had my hcg levels monitored the news has brought me right back. I'm questioning my decision's to have the d&c's and wondering if I did the right thing what if they made a mistake just one time. I'm in bits again its brought me right back to those dark depressed times just when I was feeling like tring again.

I don't really have any advice but just wanted to give support.

That's just terrible, there must be so many women now who have their worlds shaken. I can't imagine what you are going through but I'm sure that the right decision was made, you said your homones were monitored and you had more than one scan I would think that you could be mistaken with 1 scan but not with 2 and tests.

There is no answer to this to make you feel any better, it's a sad time whatever happened. Keep trying, when you get your little miracle all the saddness will be worthwhile.

From what I know of the cases that have come to light, annie, those women had only had on e scan and their hormone levels had not been monitored and it was same-day treatment. So it seems unlikely that there were any misdiagnoses in your case. about your mc's.

I have been told with two different pregancies that I had mc and had a later scan that found heartbeat, I even listened to one through the ultrasound machine, both did eventually mc so I can understand the rollercoaster of emotion that this has caused.
One woman had 3 scans before a heartbeat was found the third was done just before the D&C as she was unsettled in her head the first two showed no heartbeat.
Before the D&C I felt that I was ending the pregnancy, giving up hope on my child, whereas with a natural mc the decision was made for me.
It does not matter if I had loads of scans or wheither or not I was misdiagnosed it is bringing all the bad feelings back just as I was starting to come around, I've been treated for depression on and off for the last 3 years. At the end of the day I'll never know as not all pregancies were monitored with blood levels.

This is bothering me too. I had a mmc in 2003 in a Dublin hospital, one scan, no blood tests, medical and surgical treatment. Its all over the news and its really upsetting me.

We were on weekend break in Dublin when I started Bleeding went to hospital around Parnell square.Tummy scan done got told I had a mc and they would do a d&c, I wanted to go home so left hospital to drive back with letter for my hospital and being told to pass every hospital on route in case of hemorrhage.
Handed in letter at my hosp, they did an internal scan and I was still pregnant.
We had told our parents about mc so they informed our db and ds's so then had to say Dublin made a mistake.
But after a month of being monitored scans and hcg levels I did go on to miscarry at 12 weeks so family had to be told again.
That was my 1st mc v bad nightmares after d&c too graphic and horrible to write down.
A very emotional time as also my 1st pregnancy.

I am so sorry for ye.
This is just shocking. Don't know what to say.