Ectopic PG and managing afterwards

[alish]

hey bec, how are you going?
ive been following you to see how you are doing

we were ttc for 1 year before i had a laparoscopy to find i had endometriosis, which was burnt out. i didnt get my period when it was expected and i just thought it was because the endo was burnt out, turns out i was pregnant! rang my obgyn and cuz i was worried about the procedure i had doing any harm to the baby and he said everything would be fine.. i started getting very bad bloating & bleeding, stabbing pains in my right side, so i went to hospital & had an internal ultrasound, turns out it was ectopic and it was removed at 8 weeks (still have my tube).. but the placenta kept growing and rupturing my tube so i had to have the methtoxrate (cant spell) injection to kill the placenta.. i bled for 8 weeks after that. i had 1 blood test a week to check my hcg levels also.

they generally say however long you were pregnant for thats how long it takes for your body to get back to normal, which for me was about right, but everyone is different. i still felt pregnant for a few weeks after the pregnancy was removed, but i think thats mainly because the placenta kept growing and my body still "thought i was pregnant".

i know you had your tube removed and i didnt, but i hope that sheds a little bit of light on it for you,

i agree with mildez there is not pain physically & mentally like it, and if you havent gone through it, you have no idea!! (no offence to the ladies that have commented, im just saying a m/c is different to an ectopic pregnancy - as in your body physically healing)

i read somewhere you still have a 75% shot at another pregnancy? thats really good odds, and 15% of another ectopic? thats low, i wouldnt stress too much on that, my doc told me not to fall pregnant for 3 months afterward cuz there was a 50% chance of another ectopic (as he wasnt sure if my tube was damaged or not, plus he wanted the methtoxtrate (again cant spell it) out of my system) and i did fall pregnant.. (that was with my 2nd angel baby, it didnt make it but it had absolutly nothing to do with ectopic or the injection) so i have my fingers crossed for you that next baby will be the one, and that it wont be far away!! xxxxxxx