Hi everyone,
Just needed a good old vent today, feeling sick and tired of everything. The start of my miscarriage experience started with spotting on the 23rd of August, I was worried but wanted to be optimistic about it being a normal part of my first pregnancy, I sort of calculated I was 5 weeks but wasn't 100% sure. I was then taken into A&E on the 29th August with severe abdominal pains after cramping for half a day. I'd had blood work on the day before to find my hcg levels were 1700 - the doctor said this was higher than they'd expect it to be and I was possibly further along than I thought. Anyway, after being admitted into the maternity hospital and getting blood work back they found the levels were dropping - 1600 on the 30th. The pain was manageable and the spotting had turned to light bleeding, no clots or tissue though. I had a scan and another blood test before being discharged 24 hours later with them telling me that they could not find a pregnancy with the scan and even though the levels were changing slowly, they were going down. Since then I have had blood taken regularly, another episode of severe pain (not quite as bad as the first) whilst out shopping where I could not move and it only ceased, like before until I violently threw up - I phoned the hospital but they didn't want to see me unless the pain continued.
It's been a month tomorrow since the first episode where I was taken to hospital (and where I presume the miscarriage started) and even though I stopped bleeding last week - finally! (3 weeks is quite enough in my opinion) - my hcg levels are still present and taking forever to go down.
They are now 250 from last weeks 400 to the week before's 700...
My doctor has told me that it's not totally unheard of to take this long but it's not overly normal either. They haven't suggested anything to help with this process; just keep taking blood on a weekly basis to ensure it keeps going down, however slowly.
I just wanted to know if anyone has had a similar experience?
Even though I haven't been feeling like BD-ing lately with all the examinations and things going on with my body, the few times we have we haven't used protection. I'm assuming though until my hormone levels go way down that we won't be able to conceive, no ovulation? I don't know the science around this and whenever I ask about fertility and trying again no medical professionals will give me a straight answer and have just said to discuss it with the gynecologist I am seeing in October.
I think my little rant is over. Amazing how you can try and prepare yourselves for the worse but I have truly been shattered by this whole experience, the hormones just make everything so much harder... you can't think rationally at all.
Thanks if you got through all that
Just needed a good old vent today, feeling sick and tired of everything. The start of my miscarriage experience started with spotting on the 23rd of August, I was worried but wanted to be optimistic about it being a normal part of my first pregnancy, I sort of calculated I was 5 weeks but wasn't 100% sure. I was then taken into A&E on the 29th August with severe abdominal pains after cramping for half a day. I'd had blood work on the day before to find my hcg levels were 1700 - the doctor said this was higher than they'd expect it to be and I was possibly further along than I thought. Anyway, after being admitted into the maternity hospital and getting blood work back they found the levels were dropping - 1600 on the 30th. The pain was manageable and the spotting had turned to light bleeding, no clots or tissue though. I had a scan and another blood test before being discharged 24 hours later with them telling me that they could not find a pregnancy with the scan and even though the levels were changing slowly, they were going down. Since then I have had blood taken regularly, another episode of severe pain (not quite as bad as the first) whilst out shopping where I could not move and it only ceased, like before until I violently threw up - I phoned the hospital but they didn't want to see me unless the pain continued.
It's been a month tomorrow since the first episode where I was taken to hospital (and where I presume the miscarriage started) and even though I stopped bleeding last week - finally! (3 weeks is quite enough in my opinion) - my hcg levels are still present and taking forever to go down.
They are now 250 from last weeks 400 to the week before's 700...
My doctor has told me that it's not totally unheard of to take this long but it's not overly normal either. They haven't suggested anything to help with this process; just keep taking blood on a weekly basis to ensure it keeps going down, however slowly.
I just wanted to know if anyone has had a similar experience?
Even though I haven't been feeling like BD-ing lately with all the examinations and things going on with my body, the few times we have we haven't used protection. I'm assuming though until my hormone levels go way down that we won't be able to conceive, no ovulation? I don't know the science around this and whenever I ask about fertility and trying again no medical professionals will give me a straight answer and have just said to discuss it with the gynecologist I am seeing in October.
I think my little rant is over. Amazing how you can try and prepare yourselves for the worse but I have truly been shattered by this whole experience, the hormones just make everything so much harder... you can't think rationally at all.
Thanks if you got through all that