Went in to the hospital at 1:30 am. Having shoulder pains that left me questioning if what I was feeling might be a sign of bad things to come. My cramps -- the same. Bearable.
I just got home, and after 8 hours of poking & prodding, in every sense of the words... here's what happened.
Triage nurse checked all my vitals, took a urine sample, did a pregnancy test strip - result = NEGATIVE.
Got put in the Emergency Room --well, it's not really a room, it's more like a hallway. Poor Mike was so tired and he is sick, he had to spend most of the hours in a chair. We tried to share the hospital bed, but they are narrower than a twin mattress!
Had some blood taken, FROM MY HAND!!! I hate that shit. They didn't even ATTEMPT to take blood from my arm, like normal non-sadistic phlebotamists do. It hurt like a Motha-F'er. Blood results came back with awesome blood levels (no internal bleeding) and pregnancy test = POSITIVE, however my level was 5.6 which is really low. Meaning it's SUPER early in the pregnancy. 0 : Not pregnant, 1-5 : 1-2 weeks pregnant. Or something like that. A doc from my OB's office came in to examine me. Says he doesn't like to call a pregnancy until it's much higher... I don't blame him. I am only 12 dpo.
Got an ultrasound done again, an intra-uterine and an outter abdominal one. The results were the same as the one I got from the OB's office. Excess fluid behind Uterus causing the cramping. I heard the radiologist talk to the attending Dr and he said that he said there were possible signs of a
Corpus Luteum, which is damn fine by me. I can deal with cysts. However, I don't recall feeling it burst...
Overall, my Doc from the OB's office says there is a possibility I'm not pregnant, a possibility that I am, and a possibility that it's ectopic. Nothing definitive. What else is new.
He says he doesn't feel it's ectopic, b/c I would only be 1-2 weeks pregnant and the 'child' , so to speak, would be so miniscule that I wouldn't feel it burst within the tubes, etc...
So, he let me go -- only AFTER the attending nurse decided to plug me with an IV. In the hand first...only to find the vein collapsed b/c that's where they took blood, but he made sure he poked me a good 8 times and bent the tube in my hand before he decided to go to my arm to insert the IV. That was one of the most horrific pains. I hate that dude! I didn't even need the IV. The docs at the hospital were all pretty 'pro ectopic pregnancy' for my results, but the OB's doc doesn't see any signs leading him to start operating on me.
If my symptoms stay the same for the next few days, I go back in to the OB on Mon/Tues, else, i might get my period, else, I might get severe heavy bleeding, else -- whatever... Who knows.
We will see.
Labels: TTC, TTC 1, TTC Complications
