Hi all, this is my first post after being a long time lurker! It's a bit of a long story but please bear with me. I lost a baby in my early 20's at 10 weeks...fast forward to May this year (in my early 30s now) and my husband and I decided to start ttc. I got pregnant the first month which unfortunately ended in miscarriage at 6 weeks. I had two normal periods in July and August. We were...Shall we say "active" in August and come the middle of this month I started to feel the same as I did in June. As I have a slightly irregular cycle (between 25 and 31 days usually) I took an early response test on day 26. This was negative. The next day I started spotting and had an unusual period. Warning for tmi...it started with 2 days of brown/orange spotting with cramps then progressed to medium flow with small clots. This lasted for a day or so then back to spotting which is much shorter than my usual 5 days of heavy bleeding but I thought it was just an odd period given the cramps etc and left it at that.
5 days after I'd stopped spotting we got back to it but for the first time ever it felt uncomfortable. I started spotting after sex which has also never happened before. This has continued on and off for the last 4/5 days so (after lots of Dr Googles advice) I took a test on Sunday. Faint but definitely there bfp. Monday I did the same...still faint but bfp.
I have tried to call my doctors for some advice but no answer. We are currently 200 miles from home visiting my family and I am a little undecided if I should be cautiously optimistic or simply take it as a chemical pregnancy and wait it out as I'd already given up on this month.
I planned to do tests every day to see if it's just leftover hcg but the test I did this morning was faulty and didn't even get a control line!
Not really sure if what I'm asking for is advice or for comments or for hand holding but my poor dh needs a rest and I can't tell friends or my mother lol