Bleeding at 6 weeks, possible miscarriage? Or implantation?

[Lurchermumma]

Hi all. I’m new here just been lurking around the last week or so but I’ve found myself in Limbo at the moment and wondered if anyone had advice or similar experiences.

I started bleeding on Thursday night. I knew about spotting and implantation but this seemed like more blood than I was expecting. Throughout the night I had a bad stomach ache and woke up to see the bleeding had intensified; it was enough that I needed a panty liner but not as much as with my period.

I called 111 who had the on call doctor call me, by which time the pain in my stomach had localised to lower left hand side of the abdomen. He told me to go straight to A and E and it could be ectopic.

I was in the hospital waiting a couple of hours, they did a pregnancy test (positive) and felt my stomach. Towards the end the pain did seem to have been moved a bit and it had never got more intense than like a 5 or 6. The on call gynaecologist felt that it was more likely to be the start of a miscarriage than an ectopic pregnancy but all they could do was book me in for a scan on Wednesday and for me to take some home pregnancy tests un between.

I literally didn’t move for the rest of the day I was so scared. The pain moved around all day. Sometimes like period pain, sometimes more around the front of my vagina and sometimes it felt more like it was my digestive system like constipation (which I don’t have, but my stomach has been rumbling a lot since I found out I was pregnant)

By this morning (Saturday) the pain had gone but the bleeding still continues accompanied by some small clots. I do not t really know what to do now, I suppose there is nothing I can do until my scan! It just seems such a long time away. It’s not like I’m bleeding a lot but it is continuing which seems like too much to me. Does anyone have any advice or similar expertise?

Ps. Just to add I do not have an assigned midwife yet which is why everything went through the hospital etc,! I’m not sure how early this normallly happens but I applied a week ago and only just got a confirmation last night that they received it.

[Lyra01]

Hi - I went through a similar thing and the wait is agonising. All I can advise is to try and rest and not Google too much (which is what I did!) I've been bleeding now for 3 weeks. I had a 7 week scan and they saw blood around the sac. Baby is fine! You just never know. I'm now 8.5 and still bleeding a little. They said nature will absorb it or it'll come out! Try and take each day as it comes. I have my fingers crossed for you.

[Lurchermumma in reply to Lyra01]

Thank you for this; yes it's really hard not to keep looking things up! Its like I don't even know what to think about now. But will sit tight until the scan hopefully things will be OK.

[Hidden]

Sorry you're going through this. It's very unlikely to be implantation bleeding, that would have been much earlier if you're already 6 weeks. However, it's not unusual for some women to bleed a little during early pregnancy. As you've said, there's not much you can do until your scan on Wednesday, unless you can afford to book a private scan a little earlier. Do you have an eary pregnancy assessment unit (EPAU) where you live? You could try them on Monday, and they may be able to see you a bit earlier. All the best x

[Lurchermumma in reply to Hidden]

Thank you for the reply. I think that this hospital unit was the earliest I could get nhs wise unfortunately. I do have a place near me that does private scans and I could afford their "early reassurance scan". But I just don't know. Something in my gut is saying I'd rather have it done at the hospital? I just feel like it would be safer for some reason. I've not had any further pain since Friday now tho the bleeding continues. The doctor at the hospital said unless there are drastic changes they won't know anything before the scan.

[Hidden in reply to Lurchermumma]

That's fair enough, do what feels right for you. Doctor is right about the scan, that's really the only way to know. Hope it goes well on Wednesday

[Emdog87]

I’m sorry to hear what you’re going through. I’ve had experiences with both ectopic and miscarriages, I’ve gone to on to have a little girl and I’m now pregnant with my 2nd. In the this pregnancy I had bleeding at the very beginning up until about 16 weeks, I was actually pregnant with twins but I found out at 6 weeks one of them didn’t survive so that was the cause of the bleeding. But I still have a healthy one in there. It could be something similar, I read it’s actually really common but a lot of women never know because by the time you have the 12 week scan one of them has gone. Try and relax, it’s very hard when you think something isn’t right. If the pain or bleeding get worse then go straight to A&E. When I had my ectopic I’d had 2 assessments and it wasn’t picked up (feeling stomach) but what I do remember the pain was mainly in the right shoulder.

Just try to get some rest and not Google too much, it sometimes causes more stress than reassurance.

X

[Lurchermumma]

Thank you all for the advice. I had the appointment today and sadly it was a miscarriage. I had positive pregnancy test the day before but they did one at the hospital and it was negative so they didn't even scan in the end. Thank you for the advice although I'm gutted obviously at the end of the day I'm glad I spent the weekend trying to relax and be hopeful as it would not have changed the outcome.Xxx

[Emdog87]

I am so sorry to hear your sad news. You’ve just got to try and get some rest now, physically and mentally. X