Month 14- April 2012 Ectopic pregnancy and given Methotrexate. ER for terrible pain diagnosed with gas

So on Monday Brandon and I go in and the nurse said if yall wanna wait about 20 minutes I'll see if I can get it back. Brandon and I were scared, and promised our self we wouldn't get too upset if it came back bad because we knew we were not supposed to try, and I wasn't healed. So she came in and said I'm so sorry but it's 38. We immediately started saying stuff like it's ok we knew we were supposed to wait that this could happen, and at least we know now that we can get pregnant. She told us that in a day or 2 I would start a "heavy period" and to stop the hormones. On Thursday night I started to cramp a little, and by Friday morning my stomach felt like this.... 

I was sitting on the toilet crying in pain. My legs were shaking, I was terrified... This was not like a heavy period it was like hell. I wanted everything out now!!!! I would sit on the toilet and push when I felt like I needed to and clots would come out. Not too big, and the blood was nothing more than the first day of your period but IT HURT =(
If you are going through an early miscarriage I recommend- extra strength Tylenol (take 2), a heating pad, many rolls of toilet paper, someone in the house to help you when you need it, some comfy pj's, try to poop so you don't have any extra pressure in your belly. Eat soup. Sleep...and gently push when you feel like you need to. After that first day of hell I felt a lot better and the bleeding lightened up. The pain was coming from how thick my lining had gotten, and now had to shed and come out I am guessing. They couldn't see a sac in my uterus or anything in the tube so I doubt all that pain was coming from the microscopic fetus..

So Monday I go in for an hcg reading and it was 17. So it was still in there dying off? Eww! What the hell does this mean I want it to be over =( So 2 days later hcg is 17 again! The nurse tells me if it goes up from here its ectopic and in my tube. I started then feeling terrible shocking pain on my right side so I just knew it probably was. So 2 days later my level was 30. Super duper!! So now I get treated with Methotrexate a chemo therapy shot that dissolves the fetus. Geeze thats not traumatizing at all to hear! So on my husband birthday they give me the shot. I felt a tad worn down like I was about to get the flu or something, but nothing too bad. We went out for dinner and as I was eating I all the sudden had an american pie moment. Lol! You know that part where the guy runs to the girls restroom and has gas and poops it up like crazy. Yup that happened to me emergency style at the restaurant. I actually laughed in the restroom because I was so shocked and embarrassed that was really happening to me. I felt a lot better and was able to make it through dinner. After that we went home , and I just laid around. Worst painful gas of my life.
About 4 days later at around midnight I started to feel terrible shoulder pain and my belly was so bloated and in pain I just knew I must be eternally bleeding. I had googled about ectopic's and how they can rupture your tube and make you bleed to death so I was having anxiety, and scared. I called my doctor, and left an emergency message. He called me back in a few minutes and told me it was highly unlikely that I was internally bleeding because it was so small, and If I'm in that much pain I can go to the ER but he thought it was just the methotrexate doing its job. I called Missy to see if she could run my to the ER since she was right down the street, and my husband had a flight in just a few hrs. I wanted to make sure I was ok. the pain  and pressure was terrible. So we get to the er and they run a bunch of tests. My belly was so bloated something had to be wrong. I had Missy snap a pic since I knew I wanted to talk about this in the blog. Not sure if you can see it but I was so bloated to the point my ribs were hurting.

So the blood tests show my hcg is now 5, my potassium is a bit low, and sugar is just a little high. Then the ultrasound tech comes in to search for the blood leaking into my abdomen which I just knew I had due to this pain. She spent around 10 minutes trying to find my right ovary. She said I have a crazy amount of "bowel gas" and that's why she can't find it.  After about 15 minutes of her looking around she found it and all looked good. she said there was no blood, but so much gas that that's where the pain is coming from. Which was due to the methotrexate. Really that's it? GAS!! I'm telling you though this gas was on another level, and I couldn't push it out. =/

A couple days after that the pain was back but so bad I thought I was gonna faint. Brandon was driving me back to the ER because I felt like my tummy was gonna explode, and on the way I was crying and screaming for him to drive faster. He told me to call the fertility Dr, and tell them we were on our was to the Er, and what has been happening. they said turn around and rush to them. So I walked in crying, and guess what?

EXCESSIVE BOWEL GAS!!
 As you can see I was not happy. We figured out that me eating dairy would set it off, I was eating a ton of it because I couldn't eat anything with folic acid. I had never had a dairy allergy before the the methrotrexate so I'm assuming it messed something up. What the methotrexate does is depletes your folic acid, and does not let new cells grow, and that's how the fetus dies off and just dissolves. So I'm cutting off dairy until I'm back to normal.
From the day I took the methotrexate it took 11 days until I finally was down to 0 level of hcg.
I had a week of no blood then I started my period. I know it was my period but my dr said he didn't think so. ( following month I started 28 days later so I know it was)
Now I have to wait 3 months to try again. So that my folic acid builds back up, and my body is ready.