Miscarriage (cont.)
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Next Steps
Follow-up
Your health care provider will monitor you until the pregnancy resumes or if the miscarriage becomes complete.
- Avoid exerting yourself. You may feel better if you rest, although resting will not prevent the miscarriage from happening.
- Do not douche or insert anything in your vagina, including tampons.
- Do not have sex until the symptoms have completely gone away for one week.
- Return to the emergency department if the following symptoms develop:
- Worse cramping
- Worse bleeding (more than one pad per hour)
- Passage of tissue
- Fever
- Anything else that concerns you
- Worse cramping
- With another blood test, your quantitative beta-HCG level may be checked in 48-72 hours. The rise or fall of this level is helpful in predicting the viability or failure of the pregnancy. If the level is falling, then the pregnancy may have ended.
- A follow-up ultrasound may be done at some point.
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