did I have a chemical pregnancy?

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Hi, me and dh have been ttc for two moths. I think I ovulated on Wednesday 21st december. We bd that evening and the day after.

9 days later on friday 23rd, I had a tiny amount of spotting lasting 2-3 hours, not enough to fill a panty liner. I assumed this was implantation bleeding as I have never ever had spotting before.

On Saturday I had sore boobs all afternoon followed by about an hour of nausea.

Sunday - Tuesday this week I had a little watery discharge with bits of white, again unusual for me.

Then this morning, bang on time I woke up with AF. It was a bit more watery than usual this morning but now it feels like a normal period.

I didn't do a pregnancy test as I wanted to be a few.days late first but do my symtoms sound like a.chemical pregnancy and am I supposed to see a doctor? I have a smear booked for 19th Jan.

Sorry you have gone through this, there is no way of knowing unless you have a positive test. If your period is odd at all then take a test before your smear, but the Dr probably won't take any notice, I doubt. Unless this sort of thing is happening a lot.
I conceived two months after my chemical pregnancy (+ test and then period a few days later) after months of nothing, so I like to think of it as a practice run.
Good luck TTC :)

Unfortunatly doctors don't take a lot of notice about chemical pregnancies and some don't even know the term. I had this last year I suffered a very early miscarriage and phoned the doctors the nurse agreed with me that it was a chemical pg and to keep an eye on it but it was nothing serious. When I phoned in about something else a few months later and mentioned to the doc that I had had a chemical pg he told me that he had nenver heard the term and made me feel very stupid for using it.

As the poster has said above u will never know unless u had taken a test, but in hindsight when u are ttc you read more into cycles than if you weren't. If it haPpens again maybe go and see a doc, but take a test b4 hand.

It is estimated that if you're ttc, up to 50% of cycles can result in a chemical pregnancy. They're really v common indeed and we only know this now due to early testing. This means that yes there's a good chance that now you're ttc you'll possibly be one of the many women who experiences one and it also means that it's not something that they can or should do anything about. Most gps would be rather baffled as to what you were talking about or what you wanted them to do ime. It can be very frustrating trying to get repeated chemical pregnancies taken seriously.

What can also happen when you're ttc is that you focus on every little thing and attribute it to potential pregnancy. So instead of going for a wee and getting on with the day afterwards, you go for a wee, inspect the tissue, inspect your knickers, ponder, gaze intently, question, wonder a bit etc. The 2WW is a very odd time and your body and mind can seem to play a lot of tricks on you. My Mum said a while ago that we know too much these days and while she annoyed me a bit at the time (she was making a quiet dig about how much I dwell on dd's delivery), she's sort of right. While it's marvellous to understand the human body better, ttc is often not the joyous time it should be. It's not a case of stopping contraception, enjoying the worry free sex and waiting for it to happen in the next months/year or so. It's a lot of worry, knicker checking and obsessing. I've been there and it took a long time and a miscarriage before I made the conscious decision to just have sex, vaguely monitor my periods and wait and see for a while. It meant I enjoyed the process instead of crying each month with sadness.

I suspect I'm waffling. I remember what a tough time it is when you finally start ttc and your body seems to do the opposite of what it normally does. Good luck.

Mine did go on my notes, however I was a couple of days late when I decided to test and then had a positive test, (so confirmed pregnancy) I was probably about 5 weeks, by the time I lost it.
Unfortunately without the test being positive they won't take it seriously I am afraid. Any sort of mc or chemical is very common sadly and even if you carry a pregnancy to 10+ weeks and then lose it they don't take any first trimester loss seriously from a fertility point of view until you have had three losses in a row!

I am now 31+6 weeks so really hoping this will work out, but it took Dh and I having a month off and having sex whenever we felt like it, and having fun. That was when I conceived with a sticky one! I have an unused clearblue monitor in my wardrobe that I was going to start using the next cycle as I so wasn't expecting to conceive. In other words enjoy the shagging and don't worry so much, your only a couple of months in, so enjoy!

Unless you have a positive test I wouldn't assume it was a chemical pregnancy at all. It might well have been the case that the egg was fertilised but didn't implant correctly, but there is no way of knowing that. Generally, I think they'd only "count" it if your period was late, you got a positive test and then had an early loss before 6 weeks. That is my understanding of what "chemical pregnancy" means.
As said above, women who are ttc will have many cycles where sperm meets egg but does not progress into a bfp. There's no way of knowing if the spotting is because of that or was just a bit of random spotting.