buddy wanted - ttc after ectopic surgery to remove a tube or more

[c.m.c]

Have you phone your local EPU. They were really good at getting me in quickly. I think once you've had one they don't want to take any more risks. Tell them your getting twinges and would like to come in at 5 weeks (or wait until 5 weeks and phone up saying your getting more than twinges and are seriously worried).

It's really important to get in there early. Most likely everything is exactly wherer it should be but in the rare circumstance that it's not, you don't want anything to rupture!!

I agree no point waiting and then losing another tube. I feel twinges....though I suppose I'm still healing too

With ectopics a pseudo sac is sooooo common...I'm holding out to 6 if I can. An empty sac won't reassure me of an intrauterine pregnancy.

It's an emotional roller coaster after an ectopic isn't it

 

[Amcolecchi]

ugh yes it is an emotional coaster...I found this site that says twinges are normal and stuff!

"I have pain – what should I do?
Aches and pains in early pregnancy are very common and are often related to the changes which are occurring within your body as it responds to the hormonal changes. One-sided twinges can often be attributed to a corpus luteum cyst which is a normal healthy cyst of pregnancy which stimulates your ovary to produce progesterone to maintain your pregnancy.

If you are only just pregnant, remember that even if you can feel aches and pains, it is unlikely to be related to ectopic pregnancy at this early stage. Ectopic pregnancy usually becomes symptomatic at between 5 and 7 weeks, with rupture occurring usually at between 8 and 12 weeks, although of course there are exceptions.

If your pain is something that is bearable and responds to an over the counter pain relief known to be safe in pregnancy, then your pain is unlikely to be that of a deteriorating ectopic pregnancy."

This is the site: https://www.ectopic.org.uk/index.php/patients/emotional-impact/pregnant-ectopic-pregnancy/

 

[hilslo]

Pseudo sac very common after ectopic? Oh no - now worried it's going to be me. I know at 5 weeks you're expected to see anything other than a sac but still worried :-O

 

[c.m.c]

No hilslo don't panic.....

A pseudo sac can be in the uterus with an ectopic in the tube....it's quite common but only with ectopic pregnancies......fingers crossed none of us have an ectopic this time

 

[c.m.c]

After my surgery one Dr said that the sac they had seen must have been a pseudo sac all along with the ectopic in the tube.....but then another Dr said she defo saw a yolk sac in that sac so that's when they told me it was prob heterotopic that I had

 

[c.m.c]

AM I have used that website too it's very good.


I'm really worrying this time I can't seem to relax at all

 

[Amcolecchi]

CMC-I am too..I go tomorrow for my second bloodwork and I think I am going to ask if I can go at 5 weeks...I am freaking stressing out like crazy!

 

[c.m.c]

https://radiology.rsna.org/content/245/2/385.full


This kinda shows what I mean but it's only related to ectopics......don't worry...as yet none of us have that awful pain.


Edit..typical ectopics have lots of free fluid in the abdo.....I know I did with mine.....

AM I haven't told any family because I too am soooooooo scared.....if HCG doubles that's a good sign so FX or you tomorrow. I am back to work Monday so gonna try and get HCG done again!!

It's just soooooooo terrifying

 

[Amcolecchi]

I had no fluid in mine last time...but yes I also had no pain last time either!! Ahh yea no1 will find out till after the first ultrasound!!!!

 

[Amcolecchi]

YAYYY numbers came in!! My first day was 131 48 hours I am at 351!!!! So happy!! Ultrasound is Aug. 23rd!! It's going to be a long two weeks!!

 

[ladyluck84]

Ladies I know I had an ectopic in my right tube and it had partially ruptured but what does pseudo sac mean?

 

[c.m.c]

Ll sometimes when there's an ectopic in tube there will be a pseudo sac in the uterus...it's basically an empty sac that forms....it disappears when the ectopic is removed. A pseudo sac can make ectopics more difficult to diagnose ESP if scans are done early on.

I always wonder did I have a heterotopic or was it just a pseudo sac in my uterus as they're more common.

 

[c.m.c]

YAYYY numbers came in!! My first day was 131 48 hours I am at 351!!!! So happy!! Ultrasound is Aug. 23rd!! It's going to be a long two weeks!!

Yippee that's fab news!!

Hope this next 2 weeks fly or you

 

[hilslo]

Argh - wish I'd not known about pseudo sacs! I was blissfully happy that this one had sat nav but now the worry is back with avengence! Maybe I should slope off from the boards for a while. What I don't know I can't worry about lol!

 

[ladyluck84]

Hilslo in some ways your right but at the same time I think I self diagnosed my ectopic due to reading about it first and so glad as I think if I hadn't have heard I may have just ignored the pain as didn't realise I was pregnant. Have u had any bloods done? I'm sending lovely wiggly baby thoughts your way! when's your scan? xx

 

[hilslo]

Hilslo in some ways your right but at the same time I think I self diagnosed my ectopic due to reading about it first and so glad as I think if I hadn't have heard I may have just ignored the pain as didn't realise I was pregnant. Have u had any bloods done? I'm sending lovely wiggly baby thoughts your way! when's your scan? xx

Thanks lovely. Scan is on Thursday. I didn't get any pain with the first and my local hospital and gp don't do bloods. Fingers crossed Thursday will give me some positive reassurance!

 

[c.m.c]

Argh - wish I'd not known about pseudo sacs! I was blissfully happy that this one had sat nav but now the worry is back with avengence! Maybe I should slope off from the boards for a while. What I don't know I can't worry about lol!

Please don't worry!! you will be just fine honestly. Most ectopics show nothing in the uterus and all the odds are in favour of all being well this time

Pseudo sacs usually don't have an echogenic ring around them. Hilslo yours will have been fine. If the dr saw the sac he would know it's good , I'm so sorry to make u worry, u really don't need to


Wish now I hadn't mentioned it I'm a nervous wreck as it is without making everyone else worry

 

[hilslo]

Lol - having a previous ectopic has turned us all into worry warts!

 

[ladyluck84]

Agreed!! but it's our turn to be happy now! : )

 

[Amcolecchi]

Yes I'm a worry wart too but ladyluck is right, it's our turn to br happy!