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Care75 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-08-2007, 01:09 PM

I'm not very religious, but I'll take all of the positive thoughts/prayers you've got.

We went to my grandmothers Friday. It's about a 6 hour drive away.

Everything was fine, until around 8:00 on Friday night I went to the bathroom. I was kind of crampy, but it felt like I really had to go poop- that's why I went to the bathroom. I looked at my pantyliner and saw a couple of brown spots. I wiped and saw blood. Needless to say I was freaked out. I started crying, and I went to call Susan in to check it out.

We called the doctor at his exchange. He ordered bed rest and PIO shots. He said to find a pharmacy that had them and to have the pharmacy call him for a prescription.

Well, we were in South Bend, Indiana. We started calling pharmacies like Walgreens and CVS. The pharmacists started calling other pharmacies. Nobody had the PIO shots. We tried calling the hospitials. My dad talked to like 8 people at the largest local hospital and final he found out they had 1 package. We had to go through the ER to get it.

Well, we spent 3 hours in the ER before we saw a doctor. Luckily, we were in a nice room the whole time. When we finally saw the doctor, I explained that I needed PIO shots. He checked my cervix which was closed and everything which he seemed pleased about. He ended up calling my RE at 1:00 in the morning who said that yes, I needed PIO shots. The doctor left and came back a few minutes later to say that the hospital pharmacy didn't have this! Can you believe this? He called my RE back who said to take a Prometrium orally in addition to the 3 suppositories I was taking.

They also did a beta. This is the part that worries me most right now. I had had a beta Friday morning which was 12,682. On Friday evening in the ER, it was 10,900. The ER doc didn't seemed concerned. He said different labs have different numbers and that I'm still well within a range for where I am in my pregnancy. I guess I'll see on Monday.

I did finally get a hold of my fertility pharmacy here in St. Louis on Saturday. My mom was able to meet the pharmacist on call to pick up the PIO shots, and I started them last night when we got home at 10:30 p.m.

So today, I'm on bed rest- trying NOT to freak out. The good news is that the bleeding has stopped. It was never very much blood- just a tiny bit of spotting. I'm just really freaked out about that beta. Monday can't get here fast enough. I know that millions of women have had bleeding in early pregnancy, but I also don't know how I would deal with this if the outcome is not good.