Hi all,
I am currently laying in bed typing with my left hand because I have a horrible shoulder/neck ache on my right side. I am concerned my pregnancy is ectopic and feel lost because the EPU scheduled my scan for this Tuesday last Friday.
I am 8 weeks pregnant according to dates and Last week I started bleeding light pink blood mostly when I wiped, on Friday my bleeding increased to the point I was changing my pad every hour. During this time I thought to do a digital pregnancy test just to see if my dates were accurate and it said 1-2 weeks pregnant which was both impossible and odd as I missed my period 4 weeks ago.
Come Saturday the pain in my abdomen was too much, I also had an odd pain/ache in my shoulder to neck and my arm/hand felt odd, my pain had also localised itself to my lower right abdomen and radiating down my leg. My partner made me go to A&E as I felt lightheaded from the pain a similar lightheadedness to getting your knee tattooed, and painkillers were doing nothing. I went to hospital by which time I was passing some large clots, some the size of golf balls and some much larger. I assumed at this point I had just miscarried and passed the pregnancy as the clots were bigger than I’ve ever seen and I’ve had a previous miscarriage at 7 weeks. In A&E they took bloods and urine and I was given a speculum and told by the gynae doctor that my cervix was closed so it was near impossible for me to be miscarrying and I would probably go onto have a normal pregnancy. I was sent home and told to come in for a scan when the scanning facilities open this Tuesday.
my bleeding is less now and I am not changing my pad every hour, the blood is darker now like the colour of prune juice. The pain is less as long as I am sitting or laying down but it’s still there. I have an odd feeling below my diaphragm on my right side also, hard to explain almost like a pressure or fullness. I also keep getting sharp shooting pains in my bum similar to ones I have on my period. My shoulder/neck irritation is more like a dull ache and almost a tingly feeling in the rest of my arm and it’s worse when laying down doesn’t matter what side I lay on.
I am now concerned that I have an ectopic and it has ruptured but don’t want to go back to the hospital for them to send me home and tell me to come back on Tuesday when they have facilities to scan me. I’m really paranoid as my partner is back to work tomorrow and so concerned something will happen whilst I am home with the kids. I’m wondering whether anyone else had any symptoms like this and whether it was ectopic? I first thought ectopic pains are constant but have now been told that they can come and go so I’ve just got myself in an anxious mess. Would love to hear any similar experiences.
Sorry fir such a long post.