Miscarriage/Pregnancy Loss
GhanimaAtreides
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How do you know it's over? Or can cramping start up again?
GhanimaAtreides
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Briefly: at 7w5d (Thu 1/26) I was diagnosed with a cornual ectopic, had a procedure where they inject the sac with methotrexate (terminating instantly, but not removing).
*lots of tmi*
I spotted from Thu 1-26 to Wed 2/1. By morning I was bleeding significantly enough to be considered CD1. By 2pm the cramping was intense enough for the full dose of Percocet. I started using a strainer for all bathroom breaks (if I had to go #2, I just wadded toilet paper and applied counter pressure on my vulva to keep anything from slipping out). Heavy bleeding and cramping Thursday, stayed on pain meds all day, clots were at most pea-sized. By Friday morning, cramping seemed to peak. At 11:30am I passed a smallish clump of fiberous/stringy grey and bloody tissue that rolled out flat, about 2.5" by 1". It seemed more like a decidual cast/placenta/possible pseudo sac than an actual gestational sac. I studied it a good 10 minutes, no baby. I saved it in the freezer because I figured I'd have more to add to it for burial later.
Anyway, I've had no cramping like that since. I do feel some cervical pain and sometimes pressure still.
Is that likely it? Or can the intense cramping come back, especially since I don't think I passed the sac, just the weird clot that condenses to the size of a large green grape but rolls out flat?
ETA: I'm just really confused. This is NOT EVEN CLOSE to the bleeding and clots I had with my 2003 5w that went septic, or the 9w2d that passed after the 8w1d u/s. Both ended with D&Cs, so I'm thinking that can't be it, right?
*lots of tmi*
I spotted from Thu 1-26 to Wed 2/1. By morning I was bleeding significantly enough to be considered CD1. By 2pm the cramping was intense enough for the full dose of Percocet. I started using a strainer for all bathroom breaks (if I had to go #2, I just wadded toilet paper and applied counter pressure on my vulva to keep anything from slipping out). Heavy bleeding and cramping Thursday, stayed on pain meds all day, clots were at most pea-sized. By Friday morning, cramping seemed to peak. At 11:30am I passed a smallish clump of fiberous/stringy grey and bloody tissue that rolled out flat, about 2.5" by 1". It seemed more like a decidual cast/placenta/possible pseudo sac than an actual gestational sac. I studied it a good 10 minutes, no baby. I saved it in the freezer because I figured I'd have more to add to it for burial later.
Anyway, I've had no cramping like that since. I do feel some cervical pain and sometimes pressure still.
Is that likely it? Or can the intense cramping come back, especially since I don't think I passed the sac, just the weird clot that condenses to the size of a large green grape but rolls out flat?
ETA: I'm just really confused. This is NOT EVEN CLOSE to the bleeding and clots I had with my 2003 5w that went septic, or the 9w2d that passed after the 8w1d u/s. Both ended with D&Cs, so I'm thinking that can't be it, right?
Re: How do you know it's over? Or can cramping start up again?
TTC 9/2016 BFP 12/9/16 EDD 8/21/17 NMC 1/8/16 at 7w6d
TTC 2/2017 BFP 3/6/17 EDD 11/17/17 DS born 11/25/17 via ECS
TTC 12/2018 BFP 6/2/19 EDD 2/12/20 NMC / BO at 7 weeks, low progesterone
TTC 7/2019 BFP 8/21/19 EDD 4/22/20 CP at 5 weeks
TTC 8/19 IUI #1 w/ Clomid + Ovidrel + progesterone BFN, IUI 2 and 3 w/ Letrozole + Ovidrel + progesterone,
IUI 4 Follistim + Ovidrel + progesterone BFP 1/9/20 EDD 9/18/20
AMA, ITP in pregnancy, vWD type II - low Factor VIII, unexplained RPL and secondary infertility
CP #1- due April 2017 lost 5.5 weeks
cp #2- due May 2017 lost at 4.5 weeks
iUI #1- BFN
IUI #2-BFN
IVF#1- transfer 2- BFP! Due October 2017 c/p#3 lost at 3.5 weeks
@Perfectypo No doubt retained tissue is a problem here. Never passed a discernible sac as it's firmly wedged in my cornua next to the tubal opening. Advanced repro doc wants to do an ultrasound once my HCG hits zero. I won't be cleared to TTC until sac is fully absorbed (from the few studies on my type of treatment, sac shrinks to 1/2 size at 3 months and disappears by the 6th month) and minimum of 3 months post treatment. At the same time she said she really hopes I pass it because she's "not keen on keeping necrotic tissue in there", which worries me that either it'll get infected or she'll want to do a D&C or cornual resection anyway if it's still visible on the ultrasound. Hoping for a sub 100 beta from my draw this morning.
I'm still temping because doc won't approve the birth control patch until I reach zero, so I may only see an artificial shift from the patch vs ovulation. The OPKs would be unreliable for me still I think. Before this recent batch of bleeding my spotting was mixed with EWCM, but I wasn't going to start charting CM until the bleeding stopped.
*edited because mobile bumping cut off half my post
TTC 9/2016 BFP 12/9/16 EDD 8/21/17 NMC 1/8/16 at 7w6d
TTC 2/2017 BFP 3/6/17 EDD 11/17/17 DS born 11/25/17 via ECS
TTC 12/2018 BFP 6/2/19 EDD 2/12/20 NMC / BO at 7 weeks, low progesterone
TTC 7/2019 BFP 8/21/19 EDD 4/22/20 CP at 5 weeks
TTC 8/19 IUI #1 w/ Clomid + Ovidrel + progesterone BFN, IUI 2 and 3 w/ Letrozole + Ovidrel + progesterone,
IUI 4 Follistim + Ovidrel + progesterone BFP 1/9/20 EDD 9/18/20
AMA, ITP in pregnancy, vWD type II - low Factor VIII, unexplained RPL and secondary infertility