The following symptoms and complaints may indicate extrauterine pregnancy:
- Lower abdominal pain, colicky, side-dependent (may be very mild initially!).
- Shoulder pain, due to irritation of the phrenic nerve (phrenic nerve).
- Nausea, especially in the morning
- Secondary amenorrhea – absence of menstruation.
- Mild vaginal spotting
- Collapse/shock in the context of an acute abdomen (e.g., tubal rupture/bursting of the fallopian tube and ovarian gravidity/ovarian pregnancy (rupture occurs quite early in this case!)).
Further notes
- Most often, the symptomatology occurs between the sixth and ninth week of pregnancy.
- However, extrauterine pregnancy can occur without any symptomatology.
