RIGHT NEED SOME ADVICE HERE

[beckie90]

ok, i got a bfp last friday, 4 days before period was due,as id had nausea and weeing alot for 2 weeks before, but through that month i dont recall, getting the stretchy clear discharge what you get when you ovulate, and i do every other month, but the last period i had lasted for 2 days, and was on and off bleeding, is it likely that i was already pregnant. well i know it can happen as with my son i had a period and then missed one and thats when i found out but my dates came back to before i had that period. so could it have happend again,im confused

[lizandlulu]

could well have been pregnant if it happened like that before? how about trying one of them tests that tell you how many weeks you are, i think they go up to 5-6 weeks so they might give you a better idea?

congratulationsthough

[beckie90]

they go upto a 3+, and there a waste of money lol i did one last time and it said i was 1-2 weeks but when i got my blood results from docs a few days after i did the test my hcg level was at 5 weeks pg, and had mi scan a few days after i got my bloods and i was 6 and half week, so dont trust them spesh for a tenner lol.

thanks alot :)

[Ouchie]

The Clearblue Digital estimates how many weeks you are since conception, not how many weeks pregnant you are. The two are different because pregnancy is measured from the date of your last period, not the moment sperm meets egg.

So the blood test and the pregnancy test said the same thing, ie 1-2 weeks since conception is approx 4 weeks pregnant, add on a few days between the two tests and voila, 5 weeks.

The scan was of course more accurate, but it could be that your HCG level was initially low, or you have long cycles.

Good luck with your second pregnancy.

[beckie90]

yes but the scan i had was only a few days after, and thats what they was saying with my bloods my hcg level was measuring like to being 5 weeks pregnant because i actually had a period after id concieved, so docs thought i should have been 4 weeks with when i had last period, but i was actually more. and no my cycle is 28 days and bleed for 4 days, must just have a weird body lol.

and thank you

[Wombat33]

Maybe the last period (two days of spotting) was actually an implantation bleed and not a period at all?

[CakeandFineWine]

I agre wih Wombat sounds like implantation bleed, explain to GP and get blood test,
cheaper and more accurate!
CONGRATS

[beckie90]

thats what i thought, it was rather bright red though although it was very mucus like and not like runny blood, sorry tmi. yes the last pregnancy the clearblue i did said 1-2 weeks, but blood test said my hcg level was taking me to been 5 weeks, and the blood test was right and best of all the blood test was free lol. i jus didnt get what the lady said before about the clearblue and blood test meaning same thing? because doesnt blood test give you the actual weeks and not just weeks since last period if you get me lol

[Ouchie]

Hi Becky, Im sorry you are still confused, I will try to explain it better (it might help with your current and future pregnancies!)

All pregnancy length is measured from the date of your last period, so when the doctor says you are 23 weeks pregnant, they mean 23 weeks since your last period. So when you had the blood test saying 'five weeks', it was saying you are five weeks pregnant, following the usual calculation of 'since your last period', based on a 28 day cycle, which you apparently have.

Now, the digital test you did doesnt measure from your last period, because they have to go on the physical measurement of HCG concentration in your wee, so the test says it measures from conception. Thats why it is called a conception indicator. Conception happens about 2 weeks after your last period, so you have to add about two weeks onto the number of weeks displayed on the test.

So, if the test said it was 1-2 weeks since conception, you were 3-4 weeks pregnant (2 weeks + 2 weeks = 4 weeks). This agrees with the blood test a few days (about a week?) later, which put you at five weeks pregnant. So the test and the blood test showed the same thing - five weeks pregnant.

Basically, by the time you find out you are pregnant, you are already 4 weeks gone, as it is a month since your last period. So its impossible to be 1-2 weeks pregnant, only that it is 1-2 weeks since you conceived.

The commercial website has a really nice table that explains it clearly, here , go to the bottom of the page.

I hope this helps - in fact, the digital test did quite well, but if you are confused by them maybe its best to avoid them.

Take care.

[beckie90]

no but the digi test and the bloods do the same ive been told by measuring the hcg in your systom therefore it estimates how far, if it had been from my last period i would have been 4 weeks and not five, it didnt go since my last period it came back as i got pregnant before i had the period and the scan said the same. but i know the doctor says it from your last period saying four weeks when really it should be about 2, but but ive had 1 pregnancy and 1 mc, and i got pregnant at very strange times with both, not in mid cycle when i should have done, in 1st i got pregnant a week before period came, and my mc i got pregnant just as af was stopping as i had early scans with both

[beckie90]

yea just looked it up as i thought i was going mad lol, thers 2 type of blood tests 1 that tells you if your pregnant and the other one is called a quantitative one and that measures the exact hormone level therefore tells you how far you should be. when i saw the doc i hadnt even said when my last period was, id just phoned the surgery because i got a faint line and they sent me off for bloods and then she asked me to come back in, and said yes your pregnant and its showing 5 weeks, and a few days before i went to docs 4 results thats when id took the clearblue as i wanted to know cause i was growing impatient. its not an estimation with bloods

[Ouchie]

The reason the bloods are not an estimation is that they use a calibration curve of what level of HCG is expected at a particular point of gestation (I know this because I am a scientist and its my job). It is very accurate, and yes, quantitative. The same principle is used in the digi test - they are based on the same thing.

Basically, the digi test said you were 4 weeks pregnant (as I explained above). A few days later, the blood test said you were 5 weeks pregnant. In my book, thats pretty close!

I think Ill leave you to it now - good luck with the rest of your pregnancy, all the best.

[beckie90]

thankyou :)