Is it an ectopic pregnancy?

[glowfrog]

hello all

I'm coming up to 12 weeks of a 2nd pregnancy and having a scan on Tuesday. For a while now I have been getting very very short jabs of pain on the right of my lower abdomen. They never last and aren't too bad.

Then today it suddenly got really really painful, and within a few minutes of sitting down, I felt sick (no nausea, though) and then I was indeed sick. As soon as that was done, the pain was gone. Instantenous.

Having looked up symptoms of ectopic pregnancy, I'm still none the wiser. The pain isn't constant and I wasn't sick after feeling like it might be food poisoning.

I have a fibroid and I've been thinking the jabs were due to this, even though it's never bothered me before, including first pregnancy. But the other different thing with this pregnancy is that I have been going to the loo a ridiculous amount. It even wakes me up in the night, sometimes up to 5 times. Diabetes and UTIs have been ruled out.

So I'm thinking/hoping it is the fibroid going bananas rather than anything like ectopic pregnancy but I was wondering what someone else might think. I need some hope/reassurance, I guess!

If any kind of severe pain like this recurs, you should go to the A&E to be checked. You cannot tell if it's ectopic or fibroids unless you have a scan.

What Retired says, but I'd think an ectopic would have made its presence known before now. My symptoms started at 5 weeks.
Hopefully its just a fibroid or everything shuffling about inside, but go to A&E if it continues.

Thank you! Hopefully I will remain pain free until Tuesday, although the wait is going to be hard. Must remain grateful for small mercies, though - don't want reasons to rush off to A&E!

Addicted - sorry to hear about your own experience, btw. I have a friend who had one and it was really hard. :-/

Happy to report all is well. Barely any trace of my old fibroid as well, so goodness knows what that incident was about!!

Thats fab news.

Don't be sorry, glow I've got 2 lovely post ectopic boys, so its a distant nightmare.

Glad to hear all is well.

I would have thought you were past that point. I had 2 one 8 weeks when I ruptured and got peritonitis, I had the second at 6 weeks, so I would have thought you are past that point (I was told by my consultant that most make themselves know around the 6 week mark. I also bleed with both and home pregnancy tests were negative.

That said any unusual pain is a cause for concern, so take yourself off to see someone.