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Hi ladies. Wow, what a horrible ordeal this has been. AnxiouslyWaiting, I hope you've gone to an u/s, i don't want to see you go through what I went through. So...here's what happened. On the 20th day of bleeding and pain, I was FINALLY in at an u/s. There was nothing seen in the uterus., just a few cysts on the ovaries was all they saw. But my pain was unbearable. I kept telling my doctor the pain was on my left side and shot down my leg. By this time I haven't slept a single night more than a couple of hours. It hurt to walk, to sit, to stand, to do absolutly anything. He said that he ruled an etopic, the hormone count was now over 33000, but not a single piece of tissue in the uterus. By this time I had passed many dark clots and tissue. We were confused to what they were. I should have been 8 weeks at minimun at this time. They saw nothing in the tube, so figured the baby was some-where else. He was going to give me a low dose of a cancer treatment to flush it out, I was to meet him the next day. He said the pain was from cramps and sent me home with pain pills. I tried to argue, this pain was not a cramp! But he said an actual tubal was impossible. That night was horrible. No pain killer could get rid of this pain and I couldn't eat, drink, pee, or poop. My husband finally called our next move and said we were going to the hospital. I told him all the ER does is send me home on stronger pain pills, but I knew this was something bad. So, he talked to his father about taking the day off to find help. His dad said to go to the hospital two hours away. They have experts in ERs and better u/s. When getting there, the ER doc said that my doctor is crazy, that this could not be an etopic b/c I would be dead. Ten minutes later, I was in u/s, the man asked where it hurt, all be damned, I pin pointed the tubal. It was there. I was prepped for surgery and woke up to three holes in my tummy, and pictures of how close I was to dead. Why that tube didn't explode, we don't know, that growth was BIG. My tube was split, lord knows for how long, and that's why I was bleeding and clotting for this long. The treatment my doc was going to give me could have taken my life (I don't blame him, he's a great doc, it's the lack of good u/s here..and the hospital there debated the same treatment, until the head radiologist said no, the tubal was too big and was ripping the tube). After surgery, other than a little chest and shoulder pain, well, and a tender belly, I'm in no pain. Unfortunatly we also discovered I have endometriosis...the probable cause to the tubal. I'm not sure if I'll be able to try this again, but they cleaned off my uterus and patched up the laserations. If there's anything I can pass on from this lesson, it's that we need to put our foot down with doctors.....I could have solved this weeks ago and avoided near death. When you KNOW something is wrong, make sure you stick to your gut feeling and force your way. I probably would not be here today if I didn't drive that 2 hours to argue my pain. To everyone, good luck with your pregnancies! Wish you all the best!

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