My first pregnancy was a rare ectopic that required major surgery
To whoever is reading this, hi! It’s been a rough few months and wanted to share 🤍
I found out I was pregnant on the 3rd and was in surgery to have it removed on the 10th. I had one day of hope and happiness, but I had this horrible gut feeling that something wasn’t right.. From Friday to Monday my HCG levels went from 4000 to 5000 and was strongly advised to go to ED and have everything checked out and so I did.
I was so scared and worried about my pregnancy, my boyfriend stayed strong for the both of us. Once I had a room and mentioned my HGC levels, the nurses face dropped and said she would get someone from gynaecology to come see me. She then told me it was most likely ectopic and I would need to have an ultrasound to confirm it… which it did, and my heart broke. I was in agony from the vaginal ultrasound and numb from the news.
Later the surgeon came and spoke to me about my options, because of how high my HCG levels were surgery was the best option and I’m grateful I chose that route. That night the internal bleeding started, but didn’t have surgery until 10am the next morning. Supposed to be keyhole surgery, which they started but with the bleeding and finding out it was planted on my uterus muscle they decided to do a c section type cut on my stomach. They removed part of the muscle and my left tube.
I woke up in a lot of pain, drowsy but crying to the nurse about how much it hurt. It was then she told me that they’d had to do open surgery so I would be in more pain.
It’s been two months now since the surgery and without my baby. It’s been hard to say the least, it was such a traumatic experience.. I went into this survival mode while I was in the hospital, didn’t want any visitors as somehow it would make things feel more real and I was just trying to get through it.. I really don’t understand why I did it but it’s what I needed to do.
If you read this far, thank you 🤍