Miscarriage (cont.)
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When to Seek Medical Care
Call your health care provider if you know or suspect you are pregnant and you are experiencing any of the following:
- Vaginal bleeding
- Abdominal pain or cramping, or low back pain
- Weakness or dizziness
- Uncontrollable or severe nausea or vomiting
- Urinary symptoms such as burning, frequency, or pain with urination
- You know or suspect you are pregnant and have heavy vaginal bleeding (soaking more than one pad every hour) or pain in the back or the abdomen.
- You are passing something that looks like tissue (place what you have passed into a jar or container and take it with you to the hospital).
- You have a history of ectopic (tubal) pregnancy.
- You are extremely dizzy or pass out.
- You have a known pregnancy accompanied with passage of clots or other material.
- You have a fever of greater than 100.4°F.
- You are vomiting; nothing stays down.
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