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Symptoms include one or more of the following:
• Painononesideofthelowerabdomen (tummy). This may be a sharp pain or develop slowly, getting worse over several days. It can become severe.
• Vaginalbleedingoftenoccursbutnotalways.It
is often different to the bleeding associated with periods. For example, the bleeding may be heavier or lighter than a normal period. The blood may look darker. However, you may think the bleeding is a late period.
• Othersymptomsmayoccursuchasdiarrhoea, feeling faint or being in pain when passing poo (faeces).
• Shoulder-tippainmaydevelop.Thisisduetosome blood leaking into the abdomen and irritating the diaphragm (the muscle used to breathe).
• Severepainor“collapse”.Thisisanemergencyas the bleeding is heavy.
• Sometimestherearenowarningsymptoms(such as pain) therefore collapse, due to sudden heavy internal bleeding, is sometimes the first sign of an ectopic pregnancy.
If you have been advised to have a rescan between 7-14 days but you develop any of these symptoms within that time, you MUST attend A&E.
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PREGNANCY OF UNKNOWN LOCATION (PUL) AND ECTOPIC PREGNANCY