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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've had two ectopics.  In both cases there was bleeding and pain before the ectopic was identified.

First ectopic was pretty much a disaster.  Began bleeding only a few days after my + home test.  Went to OB for an u/s, it showed nothing, they decided it was an "incomplete miscarriage" and did a D&C.  1.5 weeks later I went to the ER with sudden and very severe pain.  Two more ER visits and an overnight hospital stay before they determined I had an ectopic pregnancy, on the basis of my betas and the fact that the path report on the D&C found no products of conception.  Got a methotrexate shot, was back in the ER that night with extreme pain (by far the worst pain in my life).  Had surgery the next morning that started out laparoscopic but turned into a 4 hr laparotomy due to rupture and hemorhaging.  Lost the tube, obviously.  I'm not sure when the rupture actually occurred, but I am guessing it was when I went to the ER the first time for the pain - so 5.5 days before the surgery.  The abdominal scans they did that night showed fluid (blood) in my abdominal cavity, I remember, but  no one suggested ectopic.  I still don't quite understand why no one put the pieces together sooner, but I guess it's because the pregancy was never seen on u/s until the last ER visit/a few hours before the surgery.  I think I was probably about 7.5 weeks pregnant at the time of the surgery, but obviously the embryo wasn't developing anything close to normally.

Second ectopic was not nearly as dramatic.  Actually didn't take a test or realize I was pregnant until I'd been having my "period" for nearly 2 weeks.  Went to the Dr, ultrasounds again showed nothing, pattern of betas over the course of 3 were unusual and indicative of ectopic, and again I was having pain (enough to have me pacing and trying to breathe through it, but nothing remotely as severe as with the prior ectopic).  One methotrexate shot resolved the pregnancy, no rupture.  I would guess I was about 6 weeks at the time of the shot, but again - development wasn't anything close to normal.[/quote]

I'm so sorry [/quote]

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