etopic ?

[mini14]

Hi

what they mean by an unknown pregnancy?

From what I understand pregnancy of unknown location can be a either:

• too early to see pregnancy
• miscarriage
• or worst case: ectopic

I had one that turned out to be ectopic. Are they doing blood tests every 48 hours? That'll give them and you some clue as to what's going on.
Unfortunately mine looked like a miscarriage but after nearly 3 weeks of monitoring and my hcg decreasing it ruptured.

Yes they are doing blood tests every 48 hours. I’m really scared. Did you have to have surgery what happened? Did they give you anything?

Basically for me I want given anything. You can have methotrexate, but for me they couldn't confirm it was ectopic as I had a large cyst in the way. Hcg was going down quite quickly on its own so they my body is doing naturally what the methotrexate would do. After a couple of weeks of tests every 48 hours, I started only have tests every week. As by this point my hcg went from over 2000 to about 800.

Then one day I was about to run some errands when I got quite painful period cramps. I was told to expect period cramp but they felt a bit weird. I called the hospital/EPU and they said to go straight to surgical assessment. I was really against surgery, but they said they wanted to check me out. This part was scary as as soon as I arrived they started taking loads of tests and I had forms for blood transfusions etc. I started bleeding lightly around this point. I went for a scan and the sonographer wouldn't tell me what was going on. I went back to the surgical assessment unit, and later that evening was told there was a 6cm mass near my ovary and they really needed to operate to see what was happening.
I stayed on the ward overnight, by the morning I was basically pain free, but I went ahead with the surgery. They said it would be 40 mins. When I woke up it was 3 hours later. The surgeon came round once I was back on the ward and they told me then it had ruptured and I had a litre of blood in my pelvis. I also had a 10cm cyst which they removed and a load of endometriosis.

One thing was that I was told to look out for one sided pain or shoulder tip pain and never got either. The pain was never excruciating - I'd say maybe a 4/10 and got better with paracetamol. So if you have any weird symptoms I'd call them, hopefully they can do like they did me and send you straight to the ward and not got through A&E.
I honestly just thought I was finally miscarrying, and wasn't sure whether to call the hospital. The surgeon was surprised I wasn't in shock from the blood loss and had I left it much longer I could have died.