Ectopic Pregnancy Trauma
The pain, the anguish, the scarring that happens after an ectopic is more common than not.
Read one woman's story about needing mental health support 10 years later because of the trauma it caused.
[Just so you understand], I have two children and had a miscarriage
from an embryo transfer.
That was a walk in the park in comparison.
Oh boy, this is a doozy.
I went through IVF and on my first try, I implanted two embryos. I tested positive for pregnancy and then had a dull ache on my lower left side and started bleeding at work at midnight while working overtime and had already been told my HCG was not rising appropriately.
I ended up in the ER on my 32nd birthday.
I was originally told that I would need my fallopian tubes removed by the student doctor....Only to be told by the chief of OB that it wasn't true.
I was given methotrexate and released with the advice that I might have a stomach ache.
Two days later, I was back in the ER after being driven there by a coworker. I had horrible stomach pain; I couldn't stand up and had the worst nausea I have ever experienced. They gave me Gas X and Zofran.
Couldn't they have given that to me two days before?
I was later told by one of the doctors it wasn't an ectopic because there was no heartbeat... What? That doesn't even make sense.
I bled for 5.5 weeks.
I was only pregnant for five weeks.
It was soooooo painful. I sat at my desk at work and cried all day and had a heating pad on me at all times because the pain was so crippling.
I still have my tubes, but that ectopic was so mentally scarring.
I think I have PTSD from it.
[Just so you understand], I have two children and had a miscarriage
from an embryo transfer.
That was a walk in the park in comparison.
I sought out mental health help last year specifically for the PTSD from that episode, ten years later.
Long story long, it was
miserable, scarring, and
just absolutely awful.