I did go to the doctor yesterday, and she said that it looks like my hormone levels had dropped to the point where my body decided it was time for a period, and it started that process. Unfortunately for me, blood had pooled and clotted from the D&C, leaving a huge, terrifying mess to deal with...at work. Woo!
She also apologized, since she thought she had gotten the lining pretty thin with the D&C, but whenever blood pools there's going to be some clotting. And if she missed any tissue, there might have been a delay in the hormone levels getting to the point where the uterus would start to expel whatever lining was left. She did not expect this to happen, though, which is why she didn't warn me. Gee, thanks for that.
Anyway, she assured me that it was definitely not a miscarriage--she got the sac with the D&C, and the ultrasound didn't reveal any others. In the exam yesterday, she was only seeing old blood, so it didn't look like I was hemorraging either (yay!), and since it had let up considerably by yesterday morning, it looked like I was going to be fine in a few days. She did an ultrasound to check the thickness of the lining, gave me a month's worth of birth control pills to regulate and stop the bleeding, and we're going to monitor my hcg level weekly or bi-weekly until it hits 0. Then we might do another round of BC pills to help my body stay on track before we can start trying to conceive again.
And, icing on the cake, even after expelling what looked like at least a pound of hell, I've somehow gained 2 pounds. 195.0 on my scale this morning. (I was a whopping 202 on the doctor scale yesterday, but I don't really count that one since I wear different clothes every time and yesterday was cold.)
Well, hasn't this been a grand freaking adventure! Sigh.
Posted by Joy at March 22, 2006 11:43 AM