5w4d pregnant, bleeding and one sided pain

[sapphiremoons]

just after a bit of advice, I’m 5w4d pregnant based on my LMP. For the last few days I’ve had cramping on one side and then I had pain going to the toilet which I initially thought was a UTI, today I’ve also had bleeding. I rang EPU when the bleeding started who gave me the number for emergency gynae who just said do another pregnancy test in 3 weeks and if it’s still positive give EPU another call but I’ve been googling and I’m worried I have symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy? It’s my first pregnancy so I don’t really know what to do but I feel like I’m just getting fobbed off and I’m assuming private scan places wouldn’t scan me in this situation?

Any advice would be helpful, I’m heartbroken that the pregnancy doesn’t appear to be progressing and frustrated at the lack of help available from the hospital 😞

If im honest it makes me kind of angry that you’ve not been given any care based on what you’ve written above. It doesn’t have to be an ectopic pregnancy given your symptoms (I had right sided pain and bleeding from an ectopic but also from a cyst in a healthy pregnancy) but an ectopic pregnancy is a risky situation if not monitored so why wouldn’t they want to rule it out??

I had a scan around 5 weeks with my ectopic and although they couldn’t see the pregnancy they could see two haemorrhagic areas in my pelvis where my tube would roughly be. I presented with pain and some bleeding just like you, and they gave me two hcg blood tests. They were extremely dubious anything was wrong so I had my “I told you so” moment, small win! My hcg was a great level but didn’t rise appropriately and then plateaued and then rose again, and that’s when they scanned.

not that this is diagnostic but, have you noticed anything unusual in your line progression if you’ve been doing that? That was the first thing to alert me to it.

either way, you have a right to be taken seriously given what you’ve written above, id go back to epu, tell them what gynae said and that you’re scared it’s ectopic and you want repeat bloods done to rule it out.

hopefully it’s nothing. (Sorry if this was a rambling response).