Pregnancy of Unknown Location :(

[W1ll0WLouise]

I went for an early pregnancy scan at 6 weeks so I could feel confident in telling my 2 girls the reason why I’ve been sick etc, and it wasn’t good 😢
There’s a mass in my womb that shouldn’t be there.
They are thinking it’s a missed miscarriage, a partial molar pregnancy or ectopic. Not had any bleeding yet and pregnancy tests are still really positive. I had bloods done at EPU on Thursday and HCG was 8000, repeat bloods done yesterday and they came back at over 15,000. So they are now saying pregnancy of unknown location.

It’s just gutting. I’ve got another appointment on Thursday for a rescan to see what needs to happen xx

I do keep getting cramps but no spotting. And still have all my beautiful pregnancy symptoms like sickness, sore boobs, exhausted. So my mind is all over the place. I just wish things would start happening so I can start the process of grieving whatever this is 😢

has anyone been through something similar? I’ve attached a picture of my strange looking scan

Anyone? :(

I did have a pregnancy of unknown location and a week later there was a baby. However, it didn't get easier for me. The baby was always small, I had a lot of bleeding and I lost the pregnancy at 13 weeks. Sorry I can't help you more. Hope it works out for you.

Its a really difficult thing to go through, am thinking of you but can't contribute anything I'm so sorry, but didn't want to read and run.

I hope it works out for you x

With my ectopic there was nothing in my uterus at all. Hope you get answers soon x

bless you I’m so sorry it didn’t work out for you. It is such a hard and confusing time :(
was it really early and that’s why the couldn’t see it at first? Or was it just hiding?

Yes that’s kind of what I would expect with an ectopic? Although it’s not something I know huge amounts about. It’s just so worrying seeing whatever that is in there and them not knowing what’s going on :(

I hope you have recovered from the ectopic and are doing well xxx

@W1ll0WLouise I recovered physically and got pregnant again quite quickly, my DD is now 17 months old. Also currently pregnant again. I still grieve my baby that never was though. My thoughts are with you while you wait for more answers x

Bless you. Congratulations on your two further pregnancies xxx

did you get any symptoms with your ectopic and can you remember how many weeks you were when you discovered it? Xx

@W1ll0WLouise I was 7 weeks and 4 days when it was discovered. The first symptom was some brown discharge around 4 weeks pregnant, which I put down to implantation bleeding after googling.

Around 5/6 weeks I started with some left sided stitch like pain which was worse when I lifted my leg or bent over.

Around 7 weeks the pain started to ramp up and I was having lightening like pain that felt like I was in my bum! At first I thought it was a bit funny because I'd seen about lightening crotch but it got more and more frequent. The brown discharge returned on 7 weeks 3 days and I went to the EPU at 7 weeks and 4 days at which point I was kind of hunched over and it hurt to walk.

My scan found nothing in my uterus but a mass by my ovary.

Luckily, my HCG showed to be quite low (in the hundreds) so they felt that it was resolving itself and after being nil by mouth for a little while they decided against surgery and to take the wait and see approach. I went back to the EPU every 48 hours until my HCG went down to 0 x

Sometimes it can mean it's too early to detect via scan (which is why scans are usually done at 10-12 weeks). Or it can mean a missed miscarriage or ectopic. Hope you get answers soon. Good luck.