by leorira11 » Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:13 am
I had a D&C after a missed miscarriage (baby never grew larger than 6 weeks - hb stopped around 8 weeks - nothing happened, so I had a D&C at 10 weeks). It's really not so bad, physically. Like the ER, you'll do prep (ie, fasting, they'll weigh you, blood pressure, etc) and then you wait until the doctors are ready. You go into the room and lie down. They hook you up to a ton of monitors. They put you to sleep. You wake up in recovery. Done.
I had bleeding for about 4 weeks afterwards. My hCG didn't go back to zero for about 9 weeks - but that is SUPER unusual. How soon your beta drops depends on how high it was (mine was above 60,000) and how fast your body metabolizes it (which you can't change).
I'm so sorry this is happening to you. It's really awful. For me, I live near a small-ish hospital. My D&C was in the same procedure room as my ER had been just a few weeks earlier. It was sad and ironic.
Physically, the D&C isn't bad. Emotionally - well - this SUCKS.
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BFP =
-b/g twins 22w (12.09)
-mc 10w (9.10)
-Micha (7.19-24.11) & Asaf (7.19-28.11) born at 24w
-mc 5wk (2.12)
-no HB at 18w (10.12)
-BO (4.13)-
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