Bleeding again - any slim chance it’s not bad news?

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My cycle began (with a previous miscarriage/chemical pregnancy) on 20 Mar. Found out two weeks ago that I was pregnant again (1-2 weeks on CB digital). A week later it showed 2-3 weeks on the digital but have been spotting/bleeding since last Saturday.
It comes and goes - no clots just light bleeding when I wipe - but tonight it feels heavier. I should be around 5 weeks pregnant. Anyone experienced anything similar with a positive outcome?

I started cyclogest this week as a last ditch effort to help. This is pregnancy number 6, after a stillbirth, DD, and 3 early miscarriages (weeks 5-7), and I am so very tired and feeling very very low.

It’s probably the general covid doom and gloom too, and I struggled with some PND after DD was born, but I am feeling just beaten up by life. I am (I think) religious, but feeling so angry at god at the moment - and just finding it hard to keep going except for the sake of my lovely rainbow DD.

For the earlier miscarriages I asked for and got real life support but now it feels a bit like I and everyone else are just “bored” of my MCs and I should just not bother anyone until I get to 12 weeks?

Sorry for the super long rant, and thank you if you got this far.

I’ve had an uncomfortable night and when I woke up the pad itself wasn’t soaked but when I went to pee a LOT of blood came out. But it’s liquid blood not like my period at all - no clots or tissue.
The NHS website says to contact my gp or midwife immediately for any bleeding - but obviously my GP service is shut and I have no assigned midwife - is this something to go bother 111 over?

What a hard time you have had, I’m really sorry to read this. Have you got an epu you can contact? Xx

When you say your GP is shut, do you just mean because it’s the weekend, not shut in general? I would ring them first thing tomorrow. I don’t know whether they’ll say it’s too early to scan at 5 weeks though, I had a mc at 7/8 weeks so they scanned, but I don’t know at 5 weeks whether they’d say to wait it out and test in a week? I’m so sorry, if it is another mc I would push for investigations now to find out if there’s something causing them x

So sorry to hear you’ve had such a difficult time. This may give you some hope. During my first pregnancy I bled about 3 times before 12 weeks, fairly heavy much more than spotting had an early scan and all was fine. Then around 25 ish weeks I woke up one morning with heavy bleeding and cramps, my husband rushed me to hospital and I was told to go straight to delivery suite when on phone to hospital. Long story short I didn’t deliver that day and made it to 37 weeks. Didn’t ever really get a conclusive answer on the bleeding, it happened a further 2 times until my daughter was born healthy and with no complications at 37 weeks. I really wish you the best of luck.

Really hope you get reassurance that all is ok soon OP

There is an EPU at my local hospital - although it’s got one of the highest number of covid cases and was in the news recently for struggling. The last time I went on a weekend they couldn’t scan me but kept me there for 6 hours just to tell me they can’t scan me on a weekend and to go home. That’s fine but with a young DD at home I don’t know if that’s sensible if they can’t scan me now anyway and will just tell me to wait. My GP is shut on weekends but they’re also really really difficult to get on the phone on weekdays - I will try tomorrow morning. They’ve been sending so many angry messages about “don’t come in, don’t burden our services” etc that I feel quite bad bothering them if I can manage the mc at home. It just feels a bit unusual to have so much blood but no tissue or clots. Even my run of the mill periods have more clots.
I’m probably not being very rational on who to call on a Sunday morning for help - I just had such a traumatic time on the Nhs with my first pregnancy I feel quite scared that they’ll fob me off. For my three previous MCs I went to the A&e once but the other two times I just managed it at home and it was so early I didn’t need an emergency appt (and there are never non emergency appts with my gp available)

Can you try to ring the epu? I had bleeding through all of my pregnancies, each time I rang and they would tell me if they could scan me or not to save me sitting waiting. Sometimes they would just ask me to go to take blood then go
Back for the repeat in 2 days (as far as I remember). I would definitely ring them for advice. I did bleed with all of mine and went on to have healthy babies. The go don’t want people going in to waste their time, but this is mot a time wasting situation. The not knowing is so hard I feel really sorry for you.

OP - I agree with everyone else could you try giving EPU a call? They can try and book you in for a scan tomorrow instead if they can’t see you over the weekend. It might be a subchronic bleed which is what I had in my early pregnancy (I bled heavily in my early pregnancy with no clots and no cramps) but you should get it checked out just in case.

The EPU is closed at the moment. I called the hospital and they put me through to the labour ward but the lady there just said she only deals with pregnancies over 16 weeks so if I feel the bleeding is too much I should just go to the a&e but she doesn’t know what they will do at 5 weeks.

I know some of this is my own mental health stuff and issues with previous losses, but it generally feels like no one else really cares at all. Even just a little bit of kindness would be so welcome.

Hi OP! I’m also in a similar situation. No blood in pad but only when I wipe. I put my symptoms in the 111 symptom thing online yesterday and got a call back from an out of hours GP within an hour. He thinks I may have a urine infection, which makes sense to me as also had back pain, and has given me some anti-biotics. Maybe try giving them a call? I hope everything turns out okay for you! I’ve had a previous loss too and really struggling to get excited for this one. As soon as I saw blood my heart dropped but trying to stay positive, hopefully will clear up with antibiotics. Sending baby dust your way 🥰

I bled and spotted a lot throughout the early months of my pregnancy and had a healthy baby.

Unfortunately I’ve now started passing clots and had a very large clot come out (size of my little finger). So I’m guessing that’s that, and I’ll just wait and take another pregnancy test in a week to confirm that the hormone levels have gone down.

Good luck to you @Han2912 - I hope the rest of your pregnancy is nice and smooth.

And thank you everyone for sharing your kind positive stories. It kept me company on a rather difficult morning.

I just want to down a large G&T and wait for time to pass. After 4 such experiences in the past year even the grief feels familiar.

I’m so sorry to hear, such an awful thing to go through. I really do hope things work out for you in time. Take some time out for yourself, sending you hugs 🥺🥰

I'm so sorry op. I'm sorry you felt there was nobody you could turn to as well. That's heartbreaking.

I’m so sorry. Had many previous losses myself and I know how utterly destroying they are.

Not being able to access medical support fully is awful too. Do you have someone else at home who can look after you today? During one of my mcs I called my sister round when the bleeding got heaviest for moral support, and so if I fainted I wasn’t alone.

Hope it settles for you and you can rest.

Thank you for all your kind thoughts. It really means so much.

I have my lovely DH who has been through hell with me. We’ve had a little glass of wine and decided to take a break from trying for a couple of months. Right now I think the recurrent miscarriage clinic isn’t seeing anyone - we haven’t heard anything yet. But we might pay for some private testing just to get some answers and figure out what we want to do next.

With every loss I’ve just plunged headlong into trying again and another two week wait and then symptom spotting etc etc, that I think for my mental health it will be good to just take a bit of a breather. And I’d like to lose some weight before trying again - I’m a size 14-16 now, used to be a size 10 before pregnancy. Not that it matters but perhaps my borderline obesity is having an effect on the pregnancies as well.

Anyway, thank you all for reading this far, and for your friendly support.

So sorry to read this. Hope you’re ok x