Sheila's Story
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My name is Sheila and I am 29 years old. I suffered an ectopic on July 15, 1999. We had been having trouble conceiving because I had gained a lot of weight and wasn't ovulating. Well, to make a real long story short, we began infertility treatments. I was under ovulation induction when I became pregnant. We had some tests done as a part of our workup and one of them was an HSG that showed both of my tubes to be open. So a couple of weeks into my pregnancy, I started spotting and when I went to the bathroom there was something that looked like a pink fleshy string. My doctor had me go in that afternoon for some bloodwork. His nurse called me that afternoon and told me my HCG numbers were GOING UP. I went in two days later for a follow up HCG.  I never heard from them, which I took to mean that everything was okay.

A week before my tube ruptured, I started having pains on my right side. The pains actually stopped. I called my doctor and told his secretary that I was concerned about an ectopic because I read in one of my books that the pains can come and go. He told me it was probably gas pains. If they kept up I could be seen. I never got any more "gas pains". A week later, my tube ruptured. The day it ruptured was supposed to be my eight-week checkup when I was supposed to be able to hear my baby's heartbeat. My story is kind of long but I'm going try to wrap it up. I was bleeding internally and almost died!

I needed two blood transfusions. I also lost my right tube. The surgery showed my left tube to be normal and I still have my two ovaries. I had complications from the surgery, but thankfully nothing that did any damage. Since then I have dropped that doctor and found a wonderful RE. This new doctor is fantastic. He gave me a sonohysterogram. He said things look good. I've found that with losing my baby a part of me died, too. I've also found that the people that I was there for when they were down weren't there for me. Thankfully I have a great husband that I've been married to for almost nine years, and he has helped me through this. I've also started losing weight, walking and I've gone back to school. I still believe that we will have a family one day, but I now take one day at a time. Finding this website has helped me. I pray for all of us that have been through an ectopic(s).