Five weeks ago I went into hospital with severe pain in my left side and bleeding, I was 6 weeks pregnant. After many abdominal and internal scans they could find no pregnancy and I was diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy. I was kept in hospital and monitored for 4 days. As there was no signs of a rupture and my Hcg levels were low and steadily decreasing I was discharged and we decided to do expectant management.
I had to come back to hospital every 2 days for the next 2 weeks and then weekly after that to get my bloods checked. My levels went as follows: 360, 300 260, 240, 180, 179, 140, 161, 155 and 76. It all seemed very positive, levels were decreasing, I was asymptomatic and feeling back to myself. After 3 and a half weeks I was back at work.
Then I started to notice that I had some rectal pain and pain when passing gas so I mentioned this when I went in for my next blood test. They did another internal scan just to check everything and before I knew it I was whisked up to theatre to have emergency surgery to get my tube removed. They could see I had started to bleed internally and there were signs of blood clots in my uterus. I had no pain in my left side or shoulder tip pain, it was just bowel pain. It just all happened so quickly and was a very scary experience.
When they performed the surgery they diagnosed me with chronic ectopic pregnancy. This is where tissue starts to grow around the pregnancy and the tube starts to disintegrate. It seemed like it was resolving itself and hcg levels were decreasing so it really was a huge shock when this was discovered.
I had come to terms with the fact that the pregnancy was over and was starting to feel good again, but having to get my tube removed 4 weeks later was such a huge blow and really hard to process. It feels like I'm experiencing a loss all over again. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of information on chronic ectopic pregnancy so I just want to highlight to others what I have just experienced. I am 5 days post surgery now and I am Just hoping and praying that my remaining tube will be okay