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EARLY PREGNANCY AND LOW HCG LEVEL - PLEASE HELP

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missnatalie · 19/11/2006 22:25

hi,

i am approx 4 weeks (last period was 17/10/06) and have had a brownish stringy discharge that is sometimes red, since last night. i went to a&e and they found that the hcg level is low. dr said that at 4 weeks it should be around 1000 but mine is 120. ive got to go back to the hospital in 48hrs to see if the level has doubled. this is my 1st pregnancy and i am really worried. has anyone else been in this situation? or has anyone got any advise that they could give me? thanks xxx

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merrylissiemas · 02/12/2006 09:12

im so so sorry. i know i can't say anything that will make you feel better, but i wish i could. take care sweets

golds · 02/12/2006 09:45

I have only just come across this thread and as I started reading this, I just knew the outcome. I had a ectopic 18 months ago, my baby would have been 1 next week.

Its a bloody frightening experience, one that I still remember so vividly (sp?) today. I had such mixed emotions of feeling sad for the loss of the baby and just being so grateful I was alive.

Please visit the ectopic trust website, they helped me talk things through and gave me so much information that I feel pretty clued up now.

Please take care, don't rush things and recover slowly, you ARE lucky to be alive and you have other chances. They took my left tube away, and although I haven't bothered to pursue another pregnancy (have two children already) there is no reason why, if I did try I coulnd't have another healthy pregnancy.

Please, if you need to talk come here, as you can see from the response so far, there are a few of us who have experienced a ectopic and can offer you support x

Pandamania · 02/12/2006 11:25

So sorry for your loss missnatalie. Reading your story, my heart went out to you. I would also recommend the Ectopic Trust's site, they helped me survive the first few months after my own ectopic in 2003. Take as much time as you need to grieve and look after yourself.

nadinetd · 02/12/2006 12:04

missnatalie, i really do not know what to say just try and stay strong and im sure you have plenty of support from family and friends, so sorry x

whensantagotstuckupAITCHimney · 04/12/2006 11:19

hi there missnatalie, how are you keeping?

missnatalie · 06/12/2006 17:18

hi everyone,

thank you so much for all of your messages. its been 1 week 1 day now since i lost the baby. its still painful to talk and think about but im getting there.

one minute i think that ive accepted what has happened but then the next im in tears. im an emotional wreck, but as my mum keeps telling me, time is a healer.

ive just got to look forward to the future and many more babies.

i am so scared about trying again. i just cant help thinking that it will happen again. i dont want it to put me of though. i cant wait to be a mum.

how long do you suggest that i wait? dr said wait until ive had 2 periods, another said i can start straight away (or as soon as i feel well enough). im not to sure on which advice to take.

my scar is healing well too. its soooo itchy but theres no sign of infection or anything like that.

did anyone else who has had an ectopic feel weird? i just dont feel myself, i dont know whats wrong with me. the only way that i can explain it is weir. i dont know if i should be greiving, be glad to be alive or what. im really confussed. is this normal? xxx

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lulumama · 06/12/2006 17:35

Hi Missnatalie

good to hear from you

no personal expereince of an ectopic.....i am sure though, whatever you are feeling, and it will be a time of mixed emotions ,is right for you.....there are others here who have expereinced what you are going through and i',m sure can provide you with some reassurance

you could try posting on the miscarraige/bereavment board too

xx

paulaplumpbottom · 06/12/2006 17:49

I lost my baby the same way in Sept. and I am pregnant again, although it is still early days, only 4 weeks. My obstetrtian said I only had to wait until I had had one period.

MerryPiffmas · 06/12/2006 17:55

Hi MissNatalie
What sort of surgery did you have?
I was told 6 mths, I had the open stomach surgery. they said I needed time to heal the muscular layers
To be honest I was too frightened for that 6 mths. It took me that long to "get over it"

Be reassured that once you have had an ectopic, you get an early scan (internal) and some doctors will do early bloods to make sure your hcg is doubling ok
I think your risk only goes up slightly maybe 5% but it's the only having one tube left which made me nervous.
I was treated very well by my doctors, got an early scan and reassurance from the start.

I hope you're doing ok
xxxxxxxxxxxx

whensantagotstuckupAITCHimney · 06/12/2006 20:55

missnatalie, good to hear from you... i'm sorry you are feeling so weird, but you've probably guessed already that 'weird' is 'normal' in fact. i felt just the same. i didn't have emergency surgery, but still people (in my family in particular) used to say to me that i would have died if the pregnancy had continued so i should be grateful. but of course all i could do was feel terribly tricked that my pregnancy hadn't been in the right place when all around me everyone else's pregnancies were fine. (in my experience, once you've lost a pregnancy the world becomes filled with fat, happy pregnant women. it's tough).

did you go to the ectopic pregnancy trust website? you'll meet lots of other brand new 'weirdos' there, which was very, very reassuring when it happened to me. you'll get a lot of support there because you'll meet people who are also one week and one day on from discovering their pregnancy is over and having a traumatic operation at the same time.

the EPT advice is to wait three months after a small op, but it might be more after the full operation. did you have the full one? (probably, because it was done as an emergency). the thing is, that feels like a long time right now, but it is a good time to grieve and get your head sorted a bit.

go to the ept site, missn. it doesn't mean you have to give up coming here too, it's just that i think it will really help you get through all this.

katy1982 · 02/04/2009 11:04

hi all, well i am a week late, done a ton af preg tests an all negative, i did 2 or 3 that came out with faint lines, havin all the symptoms of pregnancy so very confussed. The thing is i have always had regular periods on a 28 day cycle, all text book. Well i obviously talked to my mum about it an asked if she had any complications when she was pregnant with me, low and behold she did, she tried gettin pregnant for 2 years with my dad and nothing then obviously she didnt get her period one month, so like all women 25 years ago she went to the chemist and did a pregnancy tests, they are the same as the ones we can do at home now, well it came back negative, she went back 2 weeks later, did the same, still negative, she then went to the doctors and had a blood test, came back negative, then had 6 more tests in the space of 3 months which all came back negative. Anyway the doctor was eventually worried as my mum had no bleeding for that entire time either so he sent her for a scan (not like the ones we had today) and low and behold there was me swimming around in her belly and she was 13 weeks gone!!!!!!! Now im worried tha it maybe genetic or am i just setting myself up for faulse hope?!?!?!?

katy

Colleen26 · 30/07/2020 14:25

Hi can anyone help me am about 6weeks when I was 5 weeks I started bleeding no cramps in no pain nothing I went in for a scan they could see the sack my hcg levels were 375 I got another test 2 days after and it dropped a little bit nurse said could be a miscarriage and sent me home I took a test this morning and come back positive but bleeding has stopped about 4 5 days ago can anyone give any advice please

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