Trip to Emergency...worried about ectopic...

cass201

On Thrusday night I had to go to emergency becasue of sharp pains on my right side. They had to do an ultrasound to rule out a bunch of stuff including an ectopic pregnancy.  I had to have an ultrasound and they could find no evidence of being pregnant (anywhere) but did find a small cyst on my right ovary.  The Dr. warned me that it may have been too early to see anything but now I am really scared that our LO may be growing in the wrong place.  I have another ultrasound on Wednesday and am hoping to see something then. Has anyone else been in this situation?  How did you deal with the waiting?

MelissaAB5579

First of all, I am so sorry for your scare. I had some spotting with my first pg so went to the on-call doctor where they did an u/s. It was too early to see anything, so they thought I would just miscarry naturally. My OB is very proactive & follows betas down to 0. Well when mine shot up from 200 to 749 they had me come in for another u/s where they found the baby in my tube. I had surgery the next morning. It wasn't so bad physically, the emotional was the worst pain. My doctor was able to save my tube. He recommended waiting one cycle to try again, we waited 2 until I felt emotionally ready. We were successful on our first attempt. So far, things are going great!

I hope you're not going through an ectopic, but if you are please don't give up hope for the future. Keep us posted...(((HUGS))))

itsMsAlbin

The cyst is probably the corpus luteum, which is producing your pg hormones right now until the placenta takes over.  You may be off in your calculations and not as far along as you think, and it is really early.

Waiting is so hard.  Try to distract yourself - go to the movies, get dinner out, etc.  Good luck!

AB&TB

I had an u/s at 5wks 1day with my son, and they could barely see a sac.  It is totally normal for them to have not seen anything as early as you were.  Like 4wks 4days?  I also remember having some twinging sharp pinches in the ovary where my pregnancy cyst was.  This is pretty normal.  I hope that you don't have any more scares, and that in a week or so you will get some confirmation that your pregnancy is in the right place.  Good luck!

carolinachica

Do you know what day you ovulated. Because if it was later than cd 14, then you really aren't 5 weeks yet and it would be too early to see even a sac.  I am crossing everything that that is the case.

wisher

It was probably too early but I hope everything is ok. I had 3 u/s before they found my ectopic. I never had any pain or bleeding with it but ended up having surgery. I lost my left tube but didn't lose faith. Now I am doing ok and the LO is in the right place. I'll be thinking of you so let us know how things go Wed.

kristin7701

I had the same thing happen. I think I went in to the hospital at 5w2d (as I recall). All the tech could see was a gestational sac/pseudo gestational sac. At 6w1d, I went for a follow-up u/s and they saw the yolk sac. Finally at 8w1d (we'd been on vacation), we saw baby's heartbeat. I'm now over 24w.

Like your doc said, there's a good chance it was too early to see anything on u/s. I hope it works out for you! 

cass201

Thank you all for your support and encouragement.  I am trying to remain positive (even though it is hard...)  I will post an update on Wednesday as soon as I know anything.  Thanks again ladies

PeetiePie

itsMsAlbin:

The cyst is probably the corpus luteum, which is producing your pg hormones right now until the placenta takes over.  You may be off in your calculations and not as far along as you think, and it is really early.

This is what I was thinking!