Hi all
Sorry for the long post.
Following up from my post regarding me thinking I was miscarrying. I began bleeding and having quite intense pain at 645 yesterday morning and by about 930 the bleeding had tapered off into brown period like bleeding and the pain wasn't as intense. I thought this was it all over and spent the rest of the day a crying mess. Stopped using my progesterone and took my estrogen patches off, I was so convinced it was definitely over. I tried calling my IVF nurses to let them know this had happened as I was due to have a scan with them next week, it kept going to voicemail so I left a message asking for a call back. This was around 11am, fast forward to about 340pm I still hadn't had a call back. I would have rang my local EPU however I have called them with concerns earlier in my pregnancy and have been told by the same nurse every time that they can't see me because I'm still under the care of the infertility team at another hospital much further away. So I called 111 because my pain was quite bad again and just so constant it was making me feel physically sick, plus I was worrying because I felt like could feel it more on the left side at times. Got passed onto a nurse at 111 who advised me to go to A&E and tell them I've been sent there by 111 and that she was sending over all the notes that she took during the call. Waited for my partner coming home and arranged for my neighbour to look after our dog as we didn't know how long we'd be gone or if I'd get admitted etc. So we went to A&E, had a bit of a wait to be triaged then back to waiting, finally after about 3/4 hours I was taken through to a bay by one of the doctors. Bloods taken, urine pregnancy test and a feel of my abdomen was done. Doctor was a bit concerned because upon feeling the bottom middle and left side of my stomach I was in clear pain and felt like I was going to be sick. She called the gynae ward who said they wanted to see me. Another few hours and a wee sleep later I'm being taken up to the gynae ward. Another couple hours of waiting and I'm having an internal examination by a different doctor who tells me she can't see a lot of blood only a small amount and that my cervix is closed but we were still waiting for my blood results. Around 130am so about an hour later she comes back to tell me my blood results are in and my HCG is sitting at 22,857. Obviously with this being the only set of bloods they don't know if that's gone up from a lower number or dropping from a higher number. She said she's putting in a referral to EPU (at the same hospital) for me to be scanned and possibly repeat bloods done either later on today or tomorrow. This morning I woke up and got a call from EPU. Of course it was the same nurse who kept telling me when I'd called them myself that they couldn't see me and I'd have to go back to the infertility clinic as I'm still under their care. She seemed absolutely pissed off that I'd been referred to them and not back to the infertility team. Blatantly said to me on the call "I don't know why we're having to follow you up" "why didn't you go to that hospital last night, why did you come here?" "You need to call the infertility clinic and arrange to see them" I told her that I'd been in contact with them and was told I had to wait till my official scan date to see them and that yesterday I'd tried calling them to advise them of the situation and that I'd had to leave a voicemail to request a callback which I'd done and the callback never came. She was clearly annoyed whether at me or at gynae for referring me to them I don't know but I don't feel it was appropriate for her to blatantly show her annoyance towards me on the phone. I'm in the mind to put in a complaint as this is the only hospital in my area/healthboard that actually has an EPU and I think I'm entitled to care from that department considering the gynae doctors have clearly saw fit that I be scanned by them today. She told me she was going to call the infertility team that I'm currently under the care of and that I should be doing the same then hung up on me. I got a call back from her 10 minutes later to say she'd called them and they were going to scan me tomorrow morning so it was "up to me" if I wanted to go to them tomorrow or come to EPU today to be scanned. Obviously I said I think it makes more sense for me to be scanned by yourselves at EPU today given I need to know what's going on and would prefer to know so today and the doctor has gone to the trouble of referring me to EPU for the scan anyway?? Wow what a bad thing that was for me to say. Huffing and hawing down the phone and "right I'll see you this afternoon but just know your usual hospital won't scan you tomorrow if that's the case" I said that's fine I can wait till my official scan date with them depending on the answers todays scan will give me. "Right ok well if anymore issues you call the infertility team not us ok bye" I am stunned that I've been spoken to like this and shown such annoyance when I'm already having a bad time and feeling anxious as it is. Now I need to go in there today to be scanned by this woman which I feel so uncomfortable about but at the same time I'd rather know today what's going on plus like I mentioned before the infertility team are at another hospital that's much further away from where I am based. Would I be in the right to raise a complaint about this? Thanks for reading and for any advice. X