Hi ladies, just wanted to write this as a bit of awareness for others. I had what I thought was my period, normal for me apart from it was followed by 9 days of brown discharge and pain in my right side and my back.. i was doing ovulation sticks which were showing positive, but this was only 6 days from my proper ‘period bleed’ so how can this be right?

I went to the GP as this wasn’t normal, this long of brown discharge .. she done a test (late in the afternoon diluted wee) for infections / pregnancy.. this came back negative. She told me the brown discharge was likely my body still strange from miscarriage last October and my back pain was likely to be muscular, I went home believing this

. The next morning something told me to act myself... do a test.. so I done a test myself, yes positive for pregnancy. Back to the GP I go & I was Sent to early pregnancy unit, .. bloods not doubling & scan showed nothing but a burst cyst so was told this was my pain & bleeding? I Went back a week later for another scan.. this time I was told this was ectopic pregnancy, the tube had already burst and I was bleeding internally & within 3 hours I had emergency surgery and unfortunately lost my right tube & the pregnancy.

My point ladies is this ..if I had listened to that doctor & not done a test myself, just believed my back pain was muscular.. , I would of just bled internally & the rest, I don’t even bare to think about. Listen to your bodies, listen to you mind. When you KNOW something isn’t right, act on it, i can’t bare to think about what would of happened to me if I didn’t listen to my head telling me to do a test & deep down knowing this pain was not muscular no matter what a doctor said. We know our bodies and we know when something is wrong, believe in yourself and don’t stop untill someone listens Xx