Worried blighted ovum!! Help

[Kellysheree]

Hey all, so I'm worried sick I'm experiencing a blighted ovum due to lack of pregnancy symptoms..

I had an early scan at 5+3 which showed a sack and yolk.. Hcg levels are rising beautifully.. I fact went up 178% over past 3 days. I'm now 6weeks today. Due for another scan this week.

But this lack of symptoms has me beside my self considering I had a hell of a time with m/s first two pregnancies..

Looking for hope..

 

[minties]

If you have a yolk sac, it isn't a blighted ovum . Everything sounds normal and fine to me.

 

[jenmcn1]

Yeah from what I understand about blighted ovum is that a yolk sac wouldn't be there if this was the case.
Before 6 weeks you can't really see anything on an u/s...so it's GrEAT that you've already seen the amniotic sac and yolk sac!!

 

[Rei]

I've had a blighted ovum and there wouldn't be a yolk sac. Also your hcg levels wouldn't be rising as they are because there wouldn't be a fetus.
As for the symptoms, everyone experiences pregnancy differently. With a blighted ovum I had symptoms at exactly 6 weeks and then they just went away at 9 weeks. And I mean I wanted to throw up at the smell of ANYTHING or if I ate ANYTHING, nothing would help. So yeah, don't worry!

 

[Kellysheree]

Thank you ladies.. Your reassurance is wonderful!

It's just so odd to not feel nauseous and have a lot of symptoms seeing as I was so sick with other two from 4-5 weeks..

I have another ultrasound Tuesday so fingers crossed for good news and a perfect hb.

I have however been scouring the Internet about blighted ovums and found loads of ladies with sack and yolk? I guess it's not a typical BO with yolk but they still use the same name. God knows..

Fingers crossed I'm not one of them xx

 

[minties]

They may have had early miscarriages and just labelled it incorrectly. A blighted ovum does not form the inner cell mass correctly as far as I am aware. I don't think there can be a yolk sac all by itself without other supporting structures.

https://i65.tinypic.com/4qsuh3.png

This is the normal development that you would expect to happen.

However wikipedia agrees with what you said and says there can be a yolk sac. I always believed otherwise.