Waiting for miscarriage

I am so so upset and frustrated & wondered if anyone else has been through similar.

Last Saturday I started bleeding red blood - I should have been almost 8 weeks pregnant.
The bleeding was only a bit and lasted for an hour or so then turned to spotting.

I got scanned a few days later and the scan showed an empty sac measuring 5-6 weeks. No fetal pole or anything.

So understandably they told me to come back a week later for another scan.

I had told myself by this point that I was having a miscarriage because I knew my dates were not wrong. I know when I ovulated & I know when I last had sex in order to conceive so there was no possible way I could be over 2 weeks out.

I’ve been spotting brown blood all week and losing some small clots.

Went back for the second scan today expecting to be told it was a miscarriage and hoping I would be given my options on how to pass it.

But they said I have to wait another week for another scan to be sure.

My bloods are all very low and have not increased so I was basically told in the week that it’s unlikely this pregnancy is progressing.
So since nothing has changed in 10 days or so I don’t know why I’m being made to wait another week just for the inevitable.

It’s absolute torture being made to wait.
I’m off sick from work because I’m essentially waiting to have a miscarriage that could happen at any time but I’ve been told I get 2 weeks of sick leave. So if this goes on for another week plus then I don’t know what I’m going to do.

I also wanted to opt for the surgical removal but now I won’t get that option until next week & if I naturally pass it in the meantime I basically just have to deal with it.
I’m so upset and heartbroken and just exhausted. I’m already being tortured knowing I’ve lost my pregnancy. It’s just awful 😢

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I have been through this EXACT situation. I was measuring 2 weeks behind as well at what should have been about 7.5 weeks. went back a week later- no heartbeat and I was spotting. miscarried naturally but had retained tissue but was also made to wait another week to see if it passed- it did not. had a D&C. The whole process dragged on for about 4 weeks and it was awful torture. I'm so sorry 😞

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Absolute same situation happened to me.Just wanted some closure from the situation but just seemed to be never ending. I’m so sorry you’re going through this.

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So sorry to hear this, I hope you’ve got support around you 😢. I experienced similar a couple of months ago. I had the same symptoms of light bleeding and spotting when I was 10 weeks, but a scan showed an empty sac of 5 or 6 weeks. Because the sac was empty, they said it could be an early viable pregnancy (I was sure it wasn’t, same as you as the dates were too far out), ectopic or a miscarriage. After my second scan they classed it as a ‘pregnancy of unknown location’ as it wasn’t progressing but they couldn’t see the embryo and say for certain it wasn’t ectopic. I had to go in every 2 days for blood tests to see if my hcg level was dropping (indicating a miscarriage and ruling out ectopic/pregnancy tissue elsewhere) and then another scan after 4 days. It was rubbish as I knew I’d lost the baby and just wanted it to be over, but in hindsight I’m glad the hospital did so many checks as it gave me the reassurance that there weren’t any other miscarriage complications. Thinking of you x

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I am so so upset and frustrated & wondered if anyone else has been through similar.

Last Saturday I started bleeding red blood - I should have been almost 8 weeks pregnant.
The bleeding was only a bit and lasted for an hour or so then turned to spotting.

I got scanned a few days later and the scan showed an empty sac measuring 5-6 weeks. No fetal pole or anything.

So understandably they told me to come back a week later for another scan.

I had told myself by this point that I was having a miscarriage because I knew my dates were not wrong. I know when I ovulated & I know when I last had sex in order to conceive so there was no possible way I could be over 2 weeks out.

I’ve been spotting brown blood all week and losing some small clots.

Went back for the second scan today expecting to be told it was a miscarriage and hoping I would be given my options on how to pass it.

But they said I have to wait another week for another scan to be sure.

My bloods are all very low and have not increased so I was basically told in the week that it’s unlikely this pregnancy is progressing.
So since nothing has changed in 10 days or so I don’t know why I’m being made to wait another week just for the inevitable.

It’s absolute torture being made to wait.
I’m off sick from work because I’m essentially waiting to have a miscarriage that could happen at any time but I’ve been told I get 2 weeks of sick leave. So if this goes on for another week plus then I don’t know what I’m going to do.

I also wanted to opt for the surgical removal but now I won’t get that option until next week & if I naturally pass it in the meantime I basically just have to deal with it.
I’m so upset and heartbroken and just exhausted. I’m already being tortured knowing I’ve lost my pregnancy. It’s just awful 😢

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