limetownjack
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I feel shocked and betrayed by my body and or this device. I had no issues for 3.5 years. Then a month ago I started to have more discharge than normal but didn’t think too much of it.
I still got soft mild barely there periods pretty regularly. So when this current period came, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Except the period got heavier on day 5 and instead of the normal little brown I’d see when I wipe, I saw bright red. And way more than I’m used to. Weird. But I was like ok maybe iud isn’t as effective anymore on preventing pms?
And then it kept going. I was on day 10 of my period, day 5 of brighter red bleeding when I made it to my OBGYN. To be clear the bleeding wasn’t heavy. I still didn’t need to use big pads. Just liners were enough.
They do a urine pregnancy test just in case and lo and behold I’m pregnant. Wtf?!
They tried doing the transvaginal ultrasound and at first couldn’t find my uterus. That shit hurt. Finally a third lady came in and found it but didn’t see an embryonic sac.
They took out my iud. It was where it was supposed to be, did not move. That traitor.
They did a blood draw. I find out when they called later than my hcG is 152. So it’s too low to show up on an ultrasound (need at least about 2000 they say)
So we have no idea if it’s a normal pregnancy, miscarriage, or ectopic. Too early to tell.
Since Thursday is thanksgiving I can’t go in to do a blood draw again then, even though they recommend doing them every 48 hours. I’m going it today to see where my hcG is at today.
I’m so worried it’s an ectopic. I can feel a little bit of pressure on my pelvis on one side but my uterus seemed to also be on that side, when they did the ultrasound so I’m not sure if it’s from that or if it’s my anxiety or what. I’m not feeling any pain.
Has anyone had this happen?
Is kyleena like not working actually way before year 5 then? It’s just so weird.
Update 11/23/22:
my planned parenthood person finally called me today at 9:50 pm with blood test results, my hcG after 24 was 175 and she said bc it’s going up so slowly it’s most likely ectopic and I should go to the ER to get the injection medicine.
I went to the closest ER that was in network without realizing it’s a catholic hospital. So after hours, blood drawn, ultrasounds, they told me nothing new. “Too early to tell, we can’t do anything. Come back in a few days” very frustrating to say the least especially since I can feel pressure on my right side of the pelvis and I am slightly bleeding.
Update 11/27/22:
I have my next blood test tomorrow finally, my bleeding has lessened and I have been passing some black clots/tissue(?) and most of my pain recently has been in the lower back on the side (at first it was side pelvic pain and sometimes middle), but the pain has changed in the last two days. I'm hoping it's a miscarriage. I will find out more tomorrow.
Update 11/29/22:
my blood draw yesterday showed my hcG went up significantly and they had me come in for aspiration. They couldn’t get my cervix to open and I came in today, they gave me cervix dialating drugs and performed the aspiration. The goal of it to see tomorrow if my hcG goes down. If the pregnancy was in my uterus, then it’ll go down. If it doesn’t go down, the pregnancy is ectopic and they said they’ll give me methodaxone tomorrow.
Update 12/1/22:
They drew blood yesterday and my hcG has plateaued, which means it’s an ectopic. Today they gave me an injection of MTX. Next step is to come in Monday and Thursday and expecting to see a 15% drop in hcG levels from whatever Mondays levels will be - that’s how we’ll know it’s working. Fingers crossed everything goes smoothly from here on out.
I still got soft mild barely there periods pretty regularly. So when this current period came, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Except the period got heavier on day 5 and instead of the normal little brown I’d see when I wipe, I saw bright red. And way more than I’m used to. Weird. But I was like ok maybe iud isn’t as effective anymore on preventing pms?
And then it kept going. I was on day 10 of my period, day 5 of brighter red bleeding when I made it to my OBGYN. To be clear the bleeding wasn’t heavy. I still didn’t need to use big pads. Just liners were enough.
They do a urine pregnancy test just in case and lo and behold I’m pregnant. Wtf?!
They tried doing the transvaginal ultrasound and at first couldn’t find my uterus. That shit hurt. Finally a third lady came in and found it but didn’t see an embryonic sac.
They took out my iud. It was where it was supposed to be, did not move. That traitor.
They did a blood draw. I find out when they called later than my hcG is 152. So it’s too low to show up on an ultrasound (need at least about 2000 they say)
So we have no idea if it’s a normal pregnancy, miscarriage, or ectopic. Too early to tell.
Since Thursday is thanksgiving I can’t go in to do a blood draw again then, even though they recommend doing them every 48 hours. I’m going it today to see where my hcG is at today.
I’m so worried it’s an ectopic. I can feel a little bit of pressure on my pelvis on one side but my uterus seemed to also be on that side, when they did the ultrasound so I’m not sure if it’s from that or if it’s my anxiety or what. I’m not feeling any pain.
Has anyone had this happen?
Is kyleena like not working actually way before year 5 then? It’s just so weird.
Update 11/23/22:
my planned parenthood person finally called me today at 9:50 pm with blood test results, my hcG after 24 was 175 and she said bc it’s going up so slowly it’s most likely ectopic and I should go to the ER to get the injection medicine.
I went to the closest ER that was in network without realizing it’s a catholic hospital. So after hours, blood drawn, ultrasounds, they told me nothing new. “Too early to tell, we can’t do anything. Come back in a few days” very frustrating to say the least especially since I can feel pressure on my right side of the pelvis and I am slightly bleeding.
Update 11/27/22:
I have my next blood test tomorrow finally, my bleeding has lessened and I have been passing some black clots/tissue(?) and most of my pain recently has been in the lower back on the side (at first it was side pelvic pain and sometimes middle), but the pain has changed in the last two days. I'm hoping it's a miscarriage. I will find out more tomorrow.
Update 11/29/22:
my blood draw yesterday showed my hcG went up significantly and they had me come in for aspiration. They couldn’t get my cervix to open and I came in today, they gave me cervix dialating drugs and performed the aspiration. The goal of it to see tomorrow if my hcG goes down. If the pregnancy was in my uterus, then it’ll go down. If it doesn’t go down, the pregnancy is ectopic and they said they’ll give me methodaxone tomorrow.
Update 12/1/22:
They drew blood yesterday and my hcG has plateaued, which means it’s an ectopic. Today they gave me an injection of MTX. Next step is to come in Monday and Thursday and expecting to see a 15% drop in hcG levels from whatever Mondays levels will be - that’s how we’ll know it’s working. Fingers crossed everything goes smoothly from here on out.
Like - would have been nice to know that. and thank you