Hello all I wonder if anyone can help. I just had a horrendous experience at a vaginal ultrasound yesterday. Hope it is ok to put here.
We had a scan at 6+2 and there was a suggestion of a heartbeat but not confirmed and all looked normal. We go back again yesterday to a different gynae and she first tells me she can't see anything because I have a full bladder and then after going to the loo we had another go. Then she says she finds it very hard to see anything because I have a full bowel and the image was too grainy. After much wiggling of the wand around she finally took some pics and with no explanation of what they could see and said she couldn't see a heartbeat and that things were not looking good. She said although she could see something she could not see it clearly and started telling me that if I miscarried I would have to go in and see them as I would lose a lot of blood. In the meantime I had to go back for a scan next week. I live in the Netherlands by the way.
I was in complete shock particularly as the last doctor I had seen the week before had said not to worry as eight weeks would show more clearly what was going on and a scan at 7 weeks was a precaution. I have bipolar disorder and hypothyroid and to be honest all the scans were worrying me as it was. I also have a cycle anything between 30-33 days which I understand puts me a bit later than 28 days.
So I of course completely freaked out by the time I got home. I spent the whole night awake even with a sleeping tablet that should be safe in the 1st trimester. My bipolar has gone through the roof and this morning we decided to go back to the hospital to see if we could get a clearer scan and make any decisions based on that.
Well aside from refusing to talk me through the scan again it turns out that the report showed there was a change between week six and week seven and that it was clearly a pregnancy and better to try at week 8 to see the heartbeat and the other gynae at the desk said there was still a very good chance at the next scan because some much will change in a week. None of which I was told the previous day! All I received was a tale of doom about how it was not looking good and there had been no change from the previous week. I understand the need to prepare women for the worst but this was Dutch bluntness to the extreme particularly as I know what a mc is like.
My symptoms remain the same - sore and huge boobs on and off, nausea and dry retching and very tired but terrible insomnia and a need to pee as soon as I have had a drink and the odd twinging and stretching feeling in my uterus and that area feeling a bit of pressure. My nose seems to have become even more sensitive to smells over the last two days as well! I know you can have a mmc and still have symptoms but I had a mc earlier in the year and I am pretty sure my body would react the same as it did then - I had none of this. No cramping no blood loss nothing.
In a very roundabout question then has anyone had a problem with clarity of a Vaginal ultrasound? I just don't understand how it went from not being able to see anything clearly to sorry this probably is not a viable pregnancy! We are staying positive about the whole thing for now - I am pregnant until told otherwise!! Thanks very much