Warning Signs for Incompetent Cervix and Pre Term Labor - Page 23

Pearl1981 · 01-02-2008, 07:32 PM

Hi girls I need some help and advice. Mainly reassurance.

I have PCOS and widespread mild endometriosis. This is my first pregnancy. Im 17 weeks and 3 days.

Yesterday my hubby and I was intimate and I had a real strong G spot orgasm :blush:

In the night I had some pelvic pain like a trapped nerve, I prodded gently and the baby moved and the pain went.

Then started the cramping. The cramping has been non stop today, sometimes getting bad. I called the hospital and they said they think it is a UTI. I dont think it is a UTI, I have had plenty and this seems like period pains and pressure.

I just wiped and I saw some jelly mucus. The pains have now gone. I get niggly pain now and again, dull period type pain. Im really starting to get worried now. I am visiting the pregnancy assessment unit tomorrow, I will ask them for a cervical scan? I hope they agree to do one for me. I feel so bad and never want to have sex again
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Im so worried for my baby, I hope Im not going into premature labour. My endometriosis causes a lot of pelvic pains on growing and stretching, but I still am shocked by this incident.

Someone reply if possible

Thanks

StormsDreams · 01-02-2008, 07:44 PM

Pearl~ I would recommend calling your ob and discussing this to give you reassurance. You can discuss coming to make sure that all is well.
Please visit the Pregnancy IC board to get more responses as well...Keep us posted!

ladymomma · 02-18-2008, 09:49 PM

ladies i know this one also, i've been pounding a cervical check by my ob every visit. Also every u/s i get is done vaginal. I'm very serious about this being as my mother lost 6 babies before they figured out she had a IC. I am 24 and for 9 years have been trying to have #1. #1 is in there and moving around as I type. After 9 years i dont wanna lose this. So all I can say is demand things, don't ask. Get pushy, get evil, get what ever it takes. Good luck.

BensWife · 02-25-2008, 06:04 PM

Good Luck, I hope it all turns out fine!

beth_D · 04-21-2008, 08:54 PM

i hope thats better

amprecious · 04-26-2008, 10:01 PM

hi, i have a question..

i made a topic yesterday because i was having bad constipation like cramps and just a little bleeding. called the doc and she said i was dehydrated and to drink 4 glasses of water and go to bed. i did so, and all cramps are gone. but now im worried about incompetent cervix. seams i did have some of the symptoms of it. but my question is.. if it was IC would the cramps have gone away or just kept comin? i am totaly freaked out about this and my doc apt is not until tuesday. also i am almost 22 weeks pregnant.

angels091506 · 04-26-2008, 10:18 PM

amprecious~I dont want to scare you with my reply, but with my son I was 21 wks pregnant and had what felt like constipation/gas pains for a couple days and everyone kept saying its just part of pregnancy I continued taking fiber pills and even drank prune juice and no BM. After the weekend and the pains coming and going I decided to call my obgyn I went in for an u/s they did one abdominally and everything was fine but when they did it transvaginally with an empty bladder I had no cervix left and by time I got my uterus calmed down to have an ER cerclage done it was to late I was already dilated to 6 with membranes bulging. My advice is if you feel something is not right call the doctor and INSIST on a transvaginal u/s to check your cervix. I waited and ended up losing my son

ShelbersMama · 04-28-2008, 03:08 AM

Just to add a little more advice,
I had absolutely NO symtoms of IC with my son. I went in for a routine US and ended up being rushed back up to OB and later that day got an emergent Cerclage! I was 2 cm. with visible membranes and NO cervix left.
Other then being a little tired the couple days before, and kinda crampy ( which I attributed to just beng 22 weeks pregnant ) no one was more shocked then me, at what ended up happening.
If your worried, by all means have it check out. But IC isn't very common and its hard as HELL to get a "true" diagnosis. I was very lucky. We caught mine in time, and I was able to carry my son to 36 weeks.
Too many women have to suffer loss after loss before they get a "true" diagnosis.
Best of luck to you!! I hope that its not IC and that you are able to have an uneventful, full term pregnacy
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scottysgurl · 05-07-2008, 11:26 AM

I have a question...I know it probably has been answered many times but I am having some pc issue and its very hard to go back and look through all the past post.

I am 22 weeks pregnant with my second child. My first child was born at 27 weeks...due to IC which went into PTL. With this pregnancy I had a cl u/s at 17 weeks. my c/l was 2.15 cm. I had a cerclage place at 18 weeks 6 days. everything has been going well so far. I also get a P17 shot weekly. My last cl u/s after the cerclage measured at 2.36 cm. My question is this....what kind of restrictions do you all have. My doctors (OB and peri) have told me no sex or orgasms...try to stay off my feet more often then not. But I start a lecture class on the 12th...its 8hrs 1 day a week and both say that will be fine. I am allowed to go on outings and such so no real bedrest. But I am starting to worry mainly because I have read so many sites and such where most restrictions are more than mine.

angels091506 · 05-07-2008, 07:16 PM

scottysgurl~ I was on moderate bedrest after my cerclage which was done at 13 weeks then my cl went to 0.5 and into the hospital I went that was at 22 weeks. So my whole pregnancy I was pretty restricted. THe mod. bedrest was no standing longer then 1hr without taking a 15 min break no lifting over 10lbs and of course the no sex.

VivC · 05-07-2008, 09:07 PM

I'd think you'd be okay. Just to be on the safe side, I'd have a stool in the class to sit on for most of the time.

allison76 · 06-22-2008, 06:24 PM

HELP. QUESTION:

I am 17 weeks along with twins. I had some severe cramping for 3 days a few weeks ago (constant every 5 minutes lower left side mostly but some on the right). This past Friday had my cervix measured (abdominal u/s) and it measured 3.1 cm. I think it was 4.1 at 13 weeks.

Is cramping a sign of cervical shortening? Could those cramps have been my cervix shortening? My OB seemed to think it was fine and didn't ask me to change my behaviors at all. I am terrified of losing my twins because we worked for over 2 years to get pregnant after much difficulties. I have another appt. in a little over 2 weeks.

Does anyone have any advice? Every time I cramp should I be worried that my cervix is getting even shorter?

VivC · 06-22-2008, 06:30 PM

Cramping is normal, which is why it's so darned hard to know when something's really wrong! My thought is that it's more closely tied to preterm labor. With IC, there are usually no cramps/contractions until the cervix is opening.

My guess is that you're fine, but you should be getting as much rest as possible anyway (you're going to be wishing you'd slept more once those babies are here!). And I'd ask your doc to check your cervix weekly (or twice a week, even)...if any changes show up, you can push for a cerclage/bedrest.

((hugs)).

smellycatsgirl · 07-09-2008, 05:12 PM

After some increased abdominal cramping and vaginal pressure I am going in for an U/S tomorrow to measure my cervical length. I am currently 15w 4d now. My doctor said it could be just normal cramping from uterus growth, but he wants to be safe and do this just to make sure. Keep your fingers crossed that everything will be fine. With the M/C earlier this year I am scared to death.

truebluebeliever · 08-11-2008, 02:39 PM

Hi, I was just looking over the archives and I have a question on something you posted a couple of years back, but first a little background on me.

My name is Sabrina and my husband and I just lost our twin girls a little two weeks ago because of premature labor (they were born 22 wks + 3 days). I haven't gotten over what happened and have been blaming myself for not knowing what happened. My husband and I have been TTC for years now and when we got a positive result after injectibles this March we were ecsatic. My RE said all of my vitals were positive and I did not need any progesterone or any other treatments. I basically had an uneventful first trimester when my RE said I should transfer to a high-risk OB already.

This is where our problem began. We chose our OB because it is one of the top three or four hospitals in our area and it was the one which could set an appointment the earliest. We went there three times and was basically told on the last appointment that the cervix was strong and set up our appointment a month later. Unfortunately, a week before the appointment I began feeling some weird pain and when we went to the hospital, we were shocked by a lifechanging statement from the doctor... I was 4cm dilated and the membranes were bulging and that we would lose both our babies. The doctor wanted to induce labor there and then but my husband and I insisted that that is not an option for us. They then said we could do hospital bedrest but the prognosis is still bad and that a cerclage was not an option because I was already 4cm dilated and the membranes were bulging. I lasted 9 days before the babies came out and they did not make it.

Right now, I am obsessed in finding out about why this happened to me when I saw your post where you said:

1. You CAN have a cerclage if you are 4cm or less dilated.
2. You CAN have a cerclage with bulging or protruding membranes as long as they have not ruptured.
3. Your cerclage does NOT have to be removed if your water breaks. You do need to be on IV antibiotics in the hospital if this happens, but you should not be forced to deliver unless there is an infection.

I want to know where you got those information. I really don't know what to think right now, and I don't want to blame anyone but myself, but if I find out that there was something I could have done to save my babies that the doctors did not do, it would really make me think twice on going back to the same hospital.

Can you provide me information about cerclage on those situations or information on preventative measures for an IC?