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Thank you for thinking of me guys. Here is my awful story:

Yesterday around 6:30a, DH and I went in for the morning ultrasound at 5wk4d half-heartedly not expecting to see anything. We didn't. Ironically my beta levels doubled appropriately so my RE felt comfortable bringing me back on Wed. at 5wk6d for u/s and if there was still nothing she was going to give me a methotrexate injection and assume it was ectopic. I felt uneasy at that prospect especially since nothing was seen on u/s to reflect an ectopic. My beta was around 7200 doubling almost appropriately from 3200 on Sat. My nurse said that she'd never seen such perfect numbers with an ectopic.

At around 12pm yesterday, I felt a dull pain in my left ovary. I called my nurse and she said to monitor and that they would see me on Tues. She also told me that my beta levels looked good and that there was still a chance a sac may be seen on u/s on Wed. However, around 2:30p, I had a bright red vaginal bleed that did not look like spotting. I freaked out and called and told them I was going to the ER. The RE told me to come right over to the office. By the time I got there the left sided pain was getting worse. They saw fluid in the cul-de-sac on vaginal u/s which hadn't been there in the AM. I pretty much knew at that point that my tube was rupturing.

By the time we got to the hospital, I was in excrutiating pain. They got an OR stat for me and DH and I went to the ER. I lost my left tube but ovaries and right tube and uterus are intact. Luckily, I didn't have to be transfused and I had lost about 200mL of blood in my abdomen which isn't a huge amount. I got to the ER around 5:45p and left the recovery room around 10:30p last night.

Ectopics can be life threatening and after even IVF the incidence is only about 3%. I guess I'm in the lucky minority.

Never in my life, did I expect things to turn out this way. I felt completely fine until yesterday. I don't blame my RE for wanting to wait to make sure it was an ectopic.

I'm very sore today but at home and recovering. We have frozen embies but I can't even think about next steps. My mom is coming in tonight to stay with us for a week. I'm thankful to have support of family and friends as we didn't tell anyone what was going on until I went to the ER yest. DH was scared to death.

Best of luck to you all and I will be lurking.