Complications After Miscarraige

Clintons Cat

Hi,
Before christmas someone i am very close to was 2 months late with her period and thought she had fallen pregnant,
now she has had one child already so she knows what the syptoms are vis a vie Morning sickness,cravings,general aches and dizzyness,the home testing kits seemed to confirm this,however when she went to the doctors her hormone tests came back saying she was not pregnant.
Anyway four weeks ago she miscarried,she went back to the doctors who refused to acknowledge she had been pregnant and told her that it was just a heavy period which upset her greatly as she felt the doctors were not taking her seriously and really wanted to grieve for the loss.
Since then complications have set in.One of Her fellopian tubes has become infected and inflamed and she is worried that part of her womb may have to be removed.
I really dont know how to console her,cause frankly this kind of thing is way over my head,
but if anyone wants to know why i have been wound tighter than a watchspring for the last week or so...well now you know

i'm sorry

smiles

Hopefully she's already gone to another doctor, she should also report that horrible doctor to the medical board, (dont know what the procedure is there tho.)

I suggest lots of moral support, because there isn't really anything else you can do.

*hug* just let her know that you care and that you'll be there for her regardless

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Clintons Cat

yeah,
thanks for that smiles,

Nevyn

There are a lot of issues a miscarraige can raise.
The Docs kit if he did a urine sample still has a margin of error it is a lot less then a home kit but still not as good as a blood test or a hospital test. Sound like an insensative idiot.

But Your friend is still suffering a loss as the result.
Esp now as if the miscarraige when it happened was not complete
this could have been the casue of the infection.
If she lived in england she would have been refered to a proper gynie and checked out and given an internal exam but over here te attiude seems to be that if it isnt givne you giref leave the womb alone ; if it is casusing trouble take it out.

Not sure where ur friend lives but maybe she should have gone to hospital if she suffered a miscarriage even at that early stage.
personally i would have gotten my self into the Rotunda asap.

It seems that she already knows the wonder of motherhood and that makes it a lil harder. you can still concieve with one working fellopian tube make take a lil longer sure that means more tryin

i know someone that had a miscarrage roughly that early and had been still tryin to decide what choice to make, she was single and had broken up with the man involved. She felt hugly guilty about it for a very long time. Pluss all the worrry that goes with could she ever carry a child.

I guess ur friend must be really worried about firstly her own health and then about the child she lost and will she be able to give her kids a lil bro or sister in the future not easy

She has one wonderful child already , and miscarraiges happen when something isnt right with the conception or ur body.

Maybe it was her bodys way of letting her know somthing was wrong so that it could be looked after.

A relative of mine had a miscarraige and then descovered she had a mild form of cancer of the womb which if had of been loft uncheck would have cot her her womb and then her life.
Thankfully she got proper treatment after the miscarrage which caught it and stopped it. She went on to have 2 more kids.

Plain GPs dont know enough about the female reproductive systems. if in doubt you are better off going to the gyn in any of the materinty hospital that is what they are there for.

Clintons Cat there are counsellors that work just in this area I am sure who ever is now dealing with ur fiends case ( hospital ect ) will have contact numbers it may be a help.

personally i'd perscribe hugs , boxes of tissues and cryin when ever she needs too .

DriftingRain

I am only speaking of what I know in the states. I am a medical lab technician. When you are pregnant you body develpoes a hormone called HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin). HCG is producted in the placent during pregnancy. In non-pregnant women it can also be produced by tumors of the trophoblast. HCG can be detected in pregnant women one week after conception. If they did this test and it can back negative then she could be having an ectopic pregnancy which is just when the fertilized egg traveles to the fallopian tubes and joins to the outside area of the uterus instead of the uterus itself. this could cause the urine pregnancy test to be positive but the serum negative be cause the placenta never attached to the egg. The reason for all her bleeding is because the fallopian tube "Ruptures" to get rid of the weight, this is dangerous and if you think this may have happened she needs to see a doctor because it requires surgery to fix the fallopian tube, if no surgery is done then the scar tissue from no surgery can cause a problem concieving in the future. I hope this helped!

Clintons Cat

yes thank you both,the information was most useful in trying to come to terms with whats happened.

She has been to see a gynocologist after she started getting real sick with stomach cramps vomiting and sleepless nights after the miscarraige hopefully things will turn out all right its all just up in the air at the moment.

DriftingRain

You are Very welcome! Good luck.