help needed

[sammymoo]

hi to cut a long story short i was 11 weeks pregant and found out the baby did not grow beond 5 weeks so went to the clinic and they gave me a tablet to pull it away from the wall then 2 days later they gave me some to open my cervix i bleed badly huge clots two days later it had all calmed down mininmal bleeding so when back for a scan wednesday this week they scaned me and could still see the remains and it should come away when i have my next period but my qustion is how will i have a period when my body still thinks iam pregant think i was treted badly they even made huge mistakes when i was going through this was even told by leeter that the baby was fine nd heart beat seen even thought i only had a bit of sack left that really upset me just want to get bck to normal if i ever can thanks for reading this all comments wellcome thanks

[AnnieBrooke]

OK, just checked your other posts and see you were in the UK, and that you had a D&C or at least one was planned.  So at least you are not going to have to threaten the only free clinic in town with legal action to get some help, as you would in the US if you had no health insurance.  

Definitely go get two hCG tests at least a couple of days apart.  Even if they are giving you a lot of talk about your period coming, they can hardly deny you the tests that will tell you if you have vascular placental tissue in there or not.  (And those tests would also tell you if you by some chance have a new pregnancy going on.)  If your numbers are above 5 and not going down, tell them you really think you need the D&C, that you don't think you will ever get a period if your body is thinking it is pregnant.  Having retained products of conception in your uterus is a great way to get a whole bunch of undesirable scar tissue.

[AnnieBrooke]

If the sac had not grown and you are sure you were 11 weeks along, you don't have to torture yourself about them supposedly seeing a heartbeat.  If you KNOW you were 11 weeks pregnant and all they saw was a 5-week embryo, that is a pregnancy that is doomed to end.

If you still have retained products of conception, it is possible that a period won't come, if the placental tissue is still what is called "vascular."  That means it is normal tissue with blood flowing in and out and keeping it alive.  If you have that, you will probably have enough hCG in your system to give you a positive reading on a pregnancy test, and if so, you won't have a period.

It does sound like you were not getting the best of care, at the very least the clinic should be following your hCG levels to see if they drop to below 5.  If your hCG levels stay higher (mine were in the hundreds for three months while I waited for methotrexate and other things to work) you won't get a period, as you say.

Go to a new doctor, would be my recommendation.  If you have no insurance, and have to go back to the same clinic for financial reasons, go back and insist that you get your hCG tested at the least.  If they won't help you and they are your only option, you could tell them that you are considering getting legal counsel because you are concerned that their casual care might damage your overall fertility.

[trying43]

Sorry u r going through this.  With my first m/c I had a d and c.  They didn't get everything and had to have another.  I know what u r going through.  It may not seem like it now but it does get better with time.  I am sorry for ur loss and good luck to u.