Very true. You've nagged me into it :-) will give the doctors a call this afternoon although the first appointment wont be for a few weeks! Terrible doctors but because they have turned all the local gp practices into one huge centre there is no where to change too.
It sounds a little like my cycles have been lately. I get lots of symptoms from around day 18 - 24 (sore boobs, nauseas etc) then 2 days of light bleeding, then nothing until day 43ish when i ovulate and then my period arrives on day 55. First time it happened i was convinced i was pregnant and spent a fortune on tests but this is the 3rd cycle in a row the same now so i'm used to it.
bugger pucca, can't believe he won't do a blood test. i mean whatever is going on certainly isn't a normal cycle.
fingers crossed you're back to normal soon though, if you did lose a preg and ov'ed in the last week you should have a period in the next 2 weeks.
pill can't harm a baby even if you are can it? i mean it's the same hormones as a preg releases into your system so can't be much harm in starting now if you want (feel free to correct me, have never taken the pill myself so probably talking out of my ass!)
if i came off the pill in the past, i would always go back on it again on the first day of next period so that i knew i was covered from day 1. maybe if you just stop thinking about it all and distract yourself somehow your next period will happen as normal and you can go back on the pill.
Meeely2...Thats really sweet of you, i will see what goes on the next few days, may email you later on if i need to test again if thats ok?
I now just want to get back on my pill, so should i just take it again?
Not going to TTC, not after all this, has just reminded me how fecking stressful it all is, and i seriously cannot be doing all this again, i am bankcrupt from buying bloody tests
pucca, do you need anymore hpt? i have some strips, identical to your opk's but for preg that i got off ebay - I am TTC, but can spare a couple if you want some to save for later on if AF still don't show up when you expect it next?
Sorry missed you last post while typing this one. If you can get the results of the one you did yesterday this afternoon try phoning later, not tomorrow) then great. If not, as above, just do one yourself.
Rather than doing lots of OPKs (which are rather meaningless and can give false results if you have recently been pregnant or think you might be) then just do a PT. It is the answer to that you need to know, not the OPK. The home ones are just as sensitive as the ones the hospital use.
If your home PT is definitely negative then it is unlikely to be anything to worry about. Chances are that you had a very early pregnancy that did not continue, miscarried and are no longer pregnant. If it is positive or if there is any doubt about if it is positive or negative, then you need further assessment and rather than just repeating another urine PT at the GP then what you need is a blood test.
I really would not bother doing any more OPKs until after your next period, you are just wasting money and getting false/meaningless results. When I had my first miscarriage I started using the OPKs at about 3 weeks afterwards and they showed positive for weeks and weeks even after I had my next period.
FWIW i don't think the OPKs mean anything, LH is different to HCG and just because they can detect HCG doesn't mean thats whats happening here, could just be LH,
Its not unsual to OV so early or late, I got pregnant this time round about CD23 i think!
Impatient as i am, i thought i will act daft and ring early to see if the results were back, she said nothing is showing on the computer so to phone tomorrow now!
I think that with an annovulatory cycle you can bleed abnormally for want of a better word mid-way through the cycle. Attila is a better person to seek advice from on that score.
The OPK's are hard to read unless they're the digital ones. I wouldn't go back to the interpret yourself ones tbh. An LH surge is usually predicted 12-48hours before Ovulation, but if you have interpret the lines yourself you can extend that I guess.
Good luck for the results!
Are you deciding to ttc now anyway with all this broo-har from the last month?
I have been away from this thread for a while but to see the mystery is as yet unsolved. Just wanted to say that I get positive OPKs for about 9 days of my cycle which is apparantly not unusual.
I don't have problem cycles at all normally, when TTC with my dd and ds, i used OPKs and the first month of using them, got pos, had sex once = pregnant!
Can I use an OPK instead of an HPT to detect pregnancy? Check out the OPK-as-HPT section for a detailed answer. The short answer is: an OPK will turn positive if pregnancy hormone is present, but there are many reasons an OPK could be positive. To be sure, you should use an HPT to detect pregnancy and an OPK to detect ovulation. Mixing and matching can get your hopes up.
There is more info on the website but it was quite long, but you may want to look it up.
NA...Thats the thing, if i am i would either be 8 weeks or 4 weeks. My last proper period was 25th March, then i had a 2 day light bleed on the 4th May.
OPK = Ovulation Predictor Kit, used for predicting when you OV, but, it an pick up on hCG (pregnancy hormone), though should never be used as a definate answer to pregnancy.
If the light bleed started on the 12th, then you would now be on CD8 (if not pregnant) It starts from the first day of your period. But, that doesn't explain anything anyway, because you've now got another pos OPK......
So even the MC/pregnant again theory doesn't fit, because you wouldn't have OV'ed again.
It is almost as if you have been pregnant all along, your hormones started to build up, then decreased, then built up again.....?????? <head explodes> That just doesn't happen, does it?
Well, all of this second guessing isn't going to help is it? I think you need to go back to the surgery tomorrow morning - don't just ring for the results, go down there - obviously if the results come back pos, then you do need to insist on a scan, because you'd have no idea of the EDD, and equally, if it is neg, you need to camp there till he gives you answers, seriously, this can't go on for much longer, put your foot down, and tell him you're not leaving until he does something to try and work out what is going on, it is the only way you are going to find out anything, and put a stop to all of the worrying and pissing about!
What did you say when he asked you if you felt pregnant?
Also that OPK i did on 4th May ( 1 week before the bleed) was definately pos, as i panicked as dh & i had been amorous the night before, as i thought i was already pg so it didn't matter, the next day i got a pos OPK.
Pucca, they may well do a sensitive pregnancy test on it. I think that basically means that they will check for any leval of hCG, and if it is higher than 5, then you would be considered pregnant - might be wrong on that though.
I am still wondering if you did MC, but then got pregnant again straight away, it would explain all of it, and you might find that in a couple of day's you'd get a stronger BFP?
Well i went, held my wee and gave him a sample of my FMU, he said he will send it to the lab, and i have to ring for the results tomorrow between 2pm and 4pm.
What kind of test will the lab do then? just a normal pg test?
I have no hpts left, so thought hey i will do a OPK, and have added ANOTHER pic lol, now if nothing is happening and i take it as all is normal would i get this result on OPK on CD 4?
think, it could be worse. in our mothers' and grandmothers' times you couldn't even approach the doctor til you'd missed 2 or 3 periods
my mom had the same problem with hormones and tested neg (1983) and was sent home and told to come back if she still hadn't bled in a month
i very much hope he does more for you than a urine test, it's such an odd situation he really is duty bound to have you checked out. like others have said, ectopic pregs have quite similar symptoms and if he misdiagnosed that he'd be at serious risk of litigation so he has to cover his ass
I really feel for you, as going through this for me has been a complete nightmare, as i said earlier with my dd & ds it was straight forward, dd i tested pos on day period was due, ds i tested neg day period due but got a pos 4 days later.
I seriously don't think he will send me for a scan, i think the furthest it will go is i take a urine sample in, it will be tested prob come back neg, bobs your uncle and fanny is your aunt, and that will be that.
if the doc tried to fob you off again insist that action be taken, everything you're saying screams out that something is going on, either a preg or a MC, either way you absolutely need to be scanned and if he won't do it insist on a differant doc.
I feel like when i test there is going to be a strong BFP, but there isn't and to begin with we were not TTC or anything and had the signs to say i thought i might be, i still have those signs now but now i am looking for them because of what has been happening and no strong pos test... i don't know.
My biggest sign personally when pg with my dd and ds was from before i got a pos test i just couldn't sleep on my stomach (odd i know!) and i love sleeping on my front, its the one sleeping position i know will get me off to sleep if i can't settle iykwim, and i have this feeling now, but as i said before no real answer as to what is going on.
tested with ds at what later turned out to be 10 weeks and got an extremely faint pos. my one and only pos preg test ever had tested the day before and that test was neg but looked like a line if you squinted
interesting i may be but i'd kill to be able to just test like a normal woman, we're thinking about a third and the thought of all that faffing around and wondering 'am i? amn't i? i feel odd' is making me tense already!
how are you feeling in general btw? do you feel well or do you feel like somethings going on? the only conclusive clues for me both times were the heightened sense of smell and the metallic taste in my mouth
well, not that rare apparently..... when i went for the scan she couldn't get a pic on the abdominal scan but told me her SIL had had neg test but a healthy baby so offered to do an internal scan for me rather than recalloing me in 2 weeks as was usual practice!
was more relieved than shocked... i knew something was happening and if i hadn't been preg i would have just had a MC so was such an incredibal moment hearing her say 'well there's definitely a baby there'
can just about make out a faint line on the bottom pic from today. vv faint though.
I definitely agree you should go to the doctor just to get peace of mind. That Tesco's test is a def negative to me but that doesn't mean to say you aren't for sure does it?
went to docs at what turned out to be 9+3 as hadn't had a period in a fair while and had all the syptoms. hadn't done a test myself as we were ttc so was fairly certain.
PT came up -ve, as did the other 4 he did and most of the hospital ones. they did a quantitive hcg and it came up 18, so not technically +ve but not -ve either. was told i'd MCed even though i'd had no bleeding. they sent me for a scan and it turned out i was having a perfectly healthy preg... just no hormones
I don't know why I erased my original post earlier today because I can see the line. I just thought that it was an ovulation predictor rather than a pg test.
I think that you are pg. (as if a random MNers vote counts for anything).
Hey Pucca, I've followed this thread from the begining. Just wanted to say, ny friend thought that she was pg but got a -ve test and the dr booked her in straight away for a blood test. Your dr needs to sort himself out, you've been messed around enough. Good Luck.
Thanks everyone, i promise i WILL go to the doctors on Monday.
PT...What happened with you again? did you have any bleeding or anything?
The more i think about the AF i had the more i think it is just so weird for me to only bleed 2 days, i have never had this since started my periods at 12 yo.
I have no more hpts left now anyway, and i am not going to buy anymore, spent too much on them this month already
pucca, trust me on this, you can't possibly get weirder looks than i did at the gp's and hospital when i went in convinced i was preg and got neg tests the amount of condecending, patronising and downright rude comments i got were unbelievable. and guess what, i was right they were wrong [smug]
at least you have actual medical symptoms and you've got pics of the positive tests you've done to show them.
THEY WILL TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY!
you need to get checked out in case it's the best or worst case scenario
if it helps, write down a list of all the points that make you think somethings going on and read it out to them, i'm a waffler too and it helps me remember what i'm supposed to be saying instead of rambling off on tangents and fogeting the more important points til i'm halfway home.
Pucca, I think the situation has changed now though.
If you look at all of the threads on here about people going to the doctors because they are a week off their period starting, but they just 'feel pregnant', or other stupid (IMO!!) reason's, the GP's must be inundated with obsessed TTC'ers, and I should imagine fed up of hearing the same thing over and over again. But if you go and tell him exactly what has gone on, make it clear that you are not TTC'ing, so that cancels out any nonexistant symptoms, he should take you seriously.
You do need to get this sorted, how much longer can it carry on?
ah, pucca, i knew it was you you need a doctor to check you out , a scan and serial blood tests to be sure . you had BFP but then some negatives, and then spotting, it is all a bit odd really. esp. if you think you got another BFP
look I have just joined this thread - you need to get this sorted, see your GP. They will NOT think this is stupid.
The possibilities are
1. You were PG, had a MC and still have a faint positive test (mine was positive for over a month after my first MC)
2. As above but you have not passed everything completely and so are still bleeding.
3. You could still be PG (HCG at a high enough level causes a positive OPK, so that could be an explanation)
4. This is the one that is the most important and needs ruling out. You could still be PG but it is not normal, for example an ectopic pregnancy. Funny, erratic, light bleeding with a positive PT makes alarm bells sound very loudly.
In any case, you need checking out. Blood tests and probably a scan. Just go and see your doctor, get checked out and take the sample, please! Or at the very least, do another one yourself.
to see the mystery is as yet unsolved. Just wanted to say that I get positive OPKs for about 9 days of my cycle 
