My name is Rhiannon and here is my story:

DH is 27 and I am 25. We have been together since August 1998' and we have been married since August 2005'.
We started our TTC journey in August 2006'. I got my first BFP in April 2007' and miscarried at 5wks along. My second BFP came in August 2007' at only 8dpo, the line on the pregnancy test was VERY dark so I went into my doctors office and got my beta's checked and the numbers were through the roof, subsequent betas there after showed that my numbers were not doubling like they should be. Well exactly one week after I got my BFP I started to have very uncomfortable pain on the side of my stomach, a few hours later I started to feel very dizzy and I felt like I was going to throw up or pass out. I layed in my bed to rest, thinking this was just normal pregnancy pains but while I was resting I noticed that I started to get severe pain in my shoulders, it was a shooting pain, almost like being electricuted. That was when I realized that something was not right. I am the kind of person who doesn't go to the doctors unless I really know something is wrong. So when I started realize something was wrong I called my doctor and explained to her what was going on and she told me to call 911 and that I had to get to the emergency room immediatly.

Once the ambulance came they tried to get me to sit up to put me in a medical chair to get me outside but once I sat up I passed out. My husband explained it to me later that my head flopped to one side and my eyes rolled behind my head. He never saw that happen to me before and he said that scared him.

Once they got me to the emergency room the doctors realized that I had an ectopic and that my tube had ruptured and I was bleeding internally. The doctor told my husband that they had to move quickly otherwise I would die. They also discovered that I had the RH factor, I never knew this before but they found out because they needed to find out what my blood type was because they thought I might need a blood transfusion, I ened up not needing the blood transfusion but I did lose over 2 liters of blood which left me anemic. The pain I felt before getting the surgery was so horendous. I never gave birth before but I would say that what I went through is worse than giving birth, it felt like getting electricuted over and over again, from your shoulders all down your body. All I wanted the doctor to do was knock me out and put me out of my misery.

After I left the hospital and went home as you can imagine I was very depressed but the doctor still wanted me to come for more blood work to make sure that my beta numbers were dropping as they should. About 2wks after comming home from the hospital I got a call from the doctor and she wanted me to come in for an U/S, after have giving her about 3 or 4 blood results. Sure enough on the u/s was another little sac, this time it was located in my uterus. I had gotten pregnant with twins, one that was in my tube and the other in my uterus. I was SO HAPPY to see that little sac there. We saw a h/b and every thing looked good. About a week later I started to bleed very heavy, I wasn't too alarmed though because I wasn't cramping and I heard that when you miscarry you cramp, but I still went in to see my doctor and they did another u/s and they noticed I had a subchronic hematoma and that is why I was bleeding but the baby was still okay.

For the next 6wks I had severe nausea, so bad that I had to have a home nurse come stay with me and I also ended up back in the hospital once again for the severe nausea.

Around 11wks I noticed that all the nausea I was feeling started to disapear and the doctor told me around this time it should start to go away so I wasn't too alarmed by it. At my 12wk u/s appointment the doctor was searching and searching for a h/b and couldn't find one and said that the baby only measured at 11wks. I ended up having to get a d&c a few days later. Losing this baby was SO hard to deal with. It hurt so bad inside my heart that my pain started effecting me physically, to the point where I couldn't walk, my legs would lock up on me and I would callapse to the ground, my husband needed to hold me up to get me in the car so I could get to the hospital to have the d & c.

Well after dealing with all that my husband and I decided we would give TTC a break to allow my body to heal. We never prevented ttc but at the same time we weren't doing all we could to become pregnant either. I started TTC seriously again in June 2008' and I still haven't gotten pregnant again after losing my tube, so that is where we stand today, praying for a BFP that will stick.

Cycle 11/12/2008

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Cycle 10/14/2008

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