Early pregnancy unit miscarriage appointment

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I miscarried our ivf miracle 2 weeks ago tomorrow. After finding out over a week before there was no heartbeat at a scan. I miscarried at home and baby came out fully in sac.

However I had a hemmorhage and had to go into hosp to have some placenta removed from cervix.

I am not allowed back on my hrt (I have ovarian insufficiency with is similar to being menopausal very young) until I have a clear scan from early pregnancy unit and a negative pregnancy test.

My test is beginning to fade but is still a clear positive and I don't mean one you squint at, it is a proper no doubt blue line positive. And I've been having some achey pain on my right and left sides. Maybe ovary area? Anyone have this? I'm worried somethings wrong. I have a scan tomorrow at the maternity unit (which will obviously be so hard to go to)

When anyone has gone to the early pregnancy unit following a miscarriage has anyone ever showed them a photo of the baby/sac? I just really want to see if they can spot anything obviously wrong at all.

I'm so sorry for your loss darling, it really is heartbreaking.

I miscarried in April, I was 7 weeks so whatever tissue passed, it wasn't clear what was the "embryo". When I got there, they did an internal scan as normal but they confirmed there was no embryo in there anymore (we knew as I had been heavily bleeding and passing clots and tissue for a few days) although the sack was still visible. I did take photos of the clots to show the ladies in the early pregnancy unit so they could see what I had to see, I think this was me justifying that something was wrong and I wasn't overreacting. After the scan, they were incredibly kind and considerate, then they took me into a quiet room and went over treatment options, if I remember correctly there was:

1. natural - just wait to see if everything else passes on its own
2. surgical - known as a D&C, you're put under general anaesthetic and have everything removed and scraped away that way
3. medication - you go into hospital for the day and they insert 4 tablets vaginally to help things along

I went with the medication, although part of me wishes I just waited to see if it happened naturally because I had to go and stay on a maternity ward and it was awful seeing women walking around with baby bumps when I was there for the complete opposite reason, it felt really heartless to put me there but at the same time I get why they keep everything together. I was also there for around 6 hours, they keep getting you to pee and showing them what "comes out" into a tray. Not very sensitive.

What I will say is, this miscarriage was the worst thing that's ever happened to me by far. It's not a little thing, it's heartbreaking and I could imagine having IVF/embryo transfer would be harder to comprehend, as baby was so wanted, I'm sure.

I miscarried in April and I'm now 13 weeks pregnant with our rainbow. It really isn't over for you darling, keep your chin up and I'm sending you a huge cuddle!

I should add, it took about 3 weeks for my tests to be completely negative again BUT they did tell me this can sometimes take months. It depends on your body.

I miscarried at 10 weeks and it took 3.5 weeks to get a negative pregnancy test. The epu monitored my HCG after 16h, 48h and then every 7 days until they were 20 and then they said wait a week to do a pregnancy test and it was a clear negative. Had it been positive they would have had me in for another HCG test. They like to monitor until it's under 10 so I was only just over so I was borderline for needing to be seen again. At 2 weeks post miscarriage they were still at 150.
I miscarried the day before my scan but there wasn't anything obvious to show them so I can't answer that. When they did the internal there was no sign of pregnancy.