hiya, im going to tell you my story and hope it doesnt scare you too much
Well as you know i took the tablet and started bleeding on monday night, i knew it was serious as i was bleeding in the bath and that NEVER happens, anyway i continue bleeding all through yesterday (tuesday) and up until about 4:30 i was fine. At 4:30 i started to feel an enormous pressure on my cervix, almost like i am sitting on an apple if that makes sense.
We manage to do the MIL visit and get to the chip shop before it was really bad. We get in and first thing i do is run to the loo all excited at the prospect of it all being over soon!!!
Anyways i sit down on the loo and pass the largest clot ive ever seen in my life! the toilet bowl was red! It was quite scary but i was in no pain. I go and eat my tea but have to keep making frequent visits to the loo as you just "know" when you are ready to pass another, Even at this point im still in no pain just very uncomfortable. My dp gets the kids to bed for me and i think "theres no point going downstairs as im only going to be back up in 2 mins anyway!" So i sit and talk to justjules on msn! I start asking her different questions about wether this is it etc and she talks me through it all, so there was me sitting there all smug thinking ha this doesnt hurt and basically sticking my fingers up at the nurses!....
Then the pain starts, full on labour contractions lasting around 40 seconds followed by streams of blood and clots. coming every 2 minutes or so!! I was in agony, i couldnt sit i couldnt stand i couldnt lie down, i had already took 3 painkillers but they didnt help any. I endured this pain for about 3 hours thinking it will pass soon, but then i started getting very woozy had gone a deathly white colour and was feeling very drowsy!
I finally decide, i cant do this anymore!!! so ring my mum to come and sit with the kids and dp rushes me up to the hospital (20 minutes away!). We get there and im immediatly given a bed. I lie down and can just feel trickling so get dp to have a look and yup, the fresh pad i had put on before leaving was full and had gone through onto my pants and through my trousers onto the bed
After about half an hour although it seems like 4 hours! the doctor came to see me and said she wanted to do an internal, so i throw away my ruined pants into the bio waste bag and cover myself up. She put the cranky open thingy in and said oooh i can see a large clot here, so gets a pair of grabbers and starts pulling, i can see dps face as she keeps grabbing clots, then i felt her grab one that must have been inside my cervix. Brought tears to my eyes i tell you!! She checked the bleeding etc and said it seems to have slowed down alot so i can go home if i like. I say yes as i want to be back with my kids. So she gives me a pair of hospital pants and an industrial sized pad and said if i fill that in an hour and a half then get straight back up there! Just like that the pain is gone! but i was feeling very battered and bruised she has given me some strong tablets but i havent had to take one
This is my experience and i thought i would share it as it is really not very nice! especially if you have little ones running around! I would have much rather been in hospital for it as the pain was unbearable! I was so close to having a blood transfusion or being put on a drip. If i had to do it again or even if i have to do it again it would be d&c all the way, in done and out. Waiting for it to go naturally is basically a ticking time bomb. Everyone has seen how positive i have been during my m/c and im not ashamed to say i was petrified!
If you do choose to leave it to go natural read my story and please know exactly what to expect! if you feel that your blood loss is to much then get to your hospital and quick! I really do not mean it to scare anyone honest