TW: loss
I’m writing this post to tell my experience with my ectopic so others could maybe be encouraged to advocate more if they have suspicions and avoid losing a tube or worse.
Welp, I’m back here after yet another loss — though this one turned out to be a ruptured ectopic at 6+0. They had to remove my right tube and said that I had a great amount of blood in my abdomen and also quite a lot of clots, which seemed strange to them according to my labs and the fact that I was on baby aspirin and heparin injections. Now I’m resting in the hospital bed waiting for more results in order to get discharged.
I started having abdominal pain Sunday morning but I thought it was from constipation due to the progesterone suppositories and the increase in iron in my prenatal vitamins. The sharp pain subsided but I still had abdominal discomfort when I walked and a sense of fullness. No fever.
I started spotting Tuesday night after going to the gym and decided to go to the ER. I had suspected an ectopic because of my low betas and it looks like I wasn’t wrong.
We’ll have to take a break until my body heals and then go back to discussing IVF which we had initially planned to start this January before I got pregnant. I guess this would be the safest route at this point. But I thought I was finally one of those lucky ones you always hear about that got pregnant the cycle before starting IVF and had their take-home baby. It was too good to be true. Take care, everyone.
I’m writing this post to tell my experience with my ectopic so others could maybe be encouraged to advocate more if they have suspicions and avoid losing a tube or worse.
Welp, I’m back here after yet another loss — though this one turned out to be a ruptured ectopic at 6+0. They had to remove my right tube and said that I had a great amount of blood in my abdomen and also quite a lot of clots, which seemed strange to them according to my labs and the fact that I was on baby aspirin and heparin injections. Now I’m resting in the hospital bed waiting for more results in order to get discharged.
I started having abdominal pain Sunday morning but I thought it was from constipation due to the progesterone suppositories and the increase in iron in my prenatal vitamins. The sharp pain subsided but I still had abdominal discomfort when I walked and a sense of fullness. No fever.
I started spotting Tuesday night after going to the gym and decided to go to the ER. I had suspected an ectopic because of my low betas and it looks like I wasn’t wrong.
- 15DPO: 12UI/L
- 17DPO: 25UI/L
- 24DPO: 813UI//L
- 27DPO: 1,430UI/L
We’ll have to take a break until my body heals and then go back to discussing IVF which we had initially planned to start this January before I got pregnant. I guess this would be the safest route at this point. But I thought I was finally one of those lucky ones you always hear about that got pregnant the cycle before starting IVF and had their take-home baby. It was too good to be true. Take care, everyone.
