Anonymous
I’d taken a pregnancy test, which came back faint positive, then 10+ more, all negative.
After 10 days I’d had a HCG blood test (the pregnancy hormone), negative, and came on a period a week later. Two weeks later, I was on the floor, unable to move with pain in my right side.
I was taken to the doctors who again did a urine test, faint positive, so sent immediately to accident and emergency. I was left for hours and that it couldn’t be a rupture as my HCG (the pregnancy hormone) levels were too low, after six hours of waiting, I got shoulder tip pain, to which was ignored by staff.
One lady came to do a quick ultrasound as gynaecology were not accepting me, to find I had free fluid, and on my walk back to the waiting room after morphine, I passed out completely and woke up in resuscitation, to which doctors were still trying to say it wasn’t a rupture.
Upon another quick ultrasound, myself and that one lady advocating for me, I was rushed into surgery within minutes as my Fallopian tube had very much ruptured and I was bleeding out.
When the Fallopian tube and pregnancy was removed, my pregnancy was roughly 6-7 weeks along. If I could say anything, TRUST your instincts. Even blood tests couldn’t pick that pregnancy up but I know something was wrong.
It’s been a really tough time since as i feel unable to trust my body ever since and tests don’t even reassure me now, but I feel more people need to be aware of this.
If I could say one thing, it would be trust your own body and instincts, no matter what tests results say, you know yourself what’s not right
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