Miscarriage
So, hello everyone. I haven’t made a post on here before but I thought this might as well be a good time to make one to get some of your input on something that happened to me recently. I’m sorry if it’s a little long.
So, a little over three weeks ago I randomly started bleeding a full week before my period was supposed to start. I’m on birth control pills and get my period like clockwork once a month because of them, so it wasn’t normal for me. At first it was just a little tiny bit of light pink, and then it went to red. I initially just thought that it was spotting, which I’ve had before many times on my journey to find the right birth control and put in a panty liner and just ignored it. However, it slowly increased over the span of my work day until it looked like something twice the intensity of the heaviest period I’d ever had (and, girl, I have seriously intense periods, hence the pill) and I saw huge chunks of what looked like tissue and blood clots. I had no idea what was going on but I tried not to worry about it since I work in a research lab with bacteria and didn’t want to focus on anything but my experiment. The cramps started an hour or two later and I was doubled over in pain. I didn’t feel like I could stand up straight and they came in waves where I would grip the lab benches and my legs would feel weak and shakey. When I finally got off work I knew something wasn’t right. I was in so much pain it was impossible to act normally and I suspected it could be a miscarriage because of the bleeding. I had a friend drive me to a drug store to get a pregnancy test and when I took it, it looked negative but I could almost make out a really faint line where the positive should be but I’m not sure whether it was my eyes playing tricks on me. I spent the next day and a half cramping and bleeding and then it became like a normal period for a few days, but then I continued bleeding in moderate to small amounts for the next few days. I know I should have seen a doctor, but my situation is complicated. You see, my father is a radiologist and the company he works for reads the vast majority of the imaging for basically every clinic in the town I live in and I know the common procedure for miscarriage is to get an ultrasound, which would be overread through my dad’s company. I have a very distinctive last name and even if my father wasn’t the one to read it, every other radiologist in this town is either under his payroll or formerly working with him. He would know if a study went through with my name. I have spent too much time shadowing to believe confidentiality laws would keep him from knowing since I’ve seen this exact thing happen before to other people. To further complicate things, although I’m a college student working and going to school full time, I live at home and my parents do not support me dating. In fact, they let me live here to save money while I study for my MCAT on the condition that I stay single after a previous exceptionally bad boyfriend almost wrecked my life. And I didn’t get into a relationship, but sometimes a girl needs some attention from someone in a non-familial way, you understand? I’m an adult and I have needs of my own. I was responsible and took my birth control properly but this happened. I got my period (or rather, the bleeding just intensified) for the usual time and then stopped and now I feel back to my normal self. What do you all think I should do about this? Was it an absolute fluke or should I change birth control? I know this is a seriously convoluted situation but there was no way I could let my parents find out that I had been pregnant, even though that issue sort of solved itself.
Thanks girls
-Ava
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