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No period or pregnancy symptoms :/??

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16MrsE · 04/06/2017 18:44

Since coming off the pill I have had my period bang on time, arriving always on the 3Rd or 4th of each month. Therefore I was expecting my period to come today or yesterday (sat/sun).. Instead since Friday j have had odd bit of brown discharge which I've only noticed from wiping or once using a tampon for a few hours.. I've since been wearing a panty liner and had nothing show up.

I didn't expect to be considering pregnancy this month as I'm the pervious weeks we have been on holiday and avoiding pregnancy via the "pull out" technique. We were told by our nurse before going on holiday to avoid pregnancy until we returned and had a test for the Zika virus.

We hadn't had sex since coming home two weeks ago but haven't had the money to have the test for Zika yet.

Any thoughts on whether this sounds like pregnancy? I haven't really had any other symptoms x

Thanks x

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16MrsE · 05/07/2017 15:38

:( really wanting to stay hopefully that I am pregnant and so I can surprise him with a positive outcome and not that I was but no longer am x

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Writerwannabe83 · 05/07/2017 15:41

My husband was out the Country when I miscarried and telling him over the phone was awful. We'd spent 3 weeks being so excited about the pregnancy so to then have to tell him I wasn't pregnant anymore was very difficult. I felt that I personally had done something wrong to have caused it and that as a woman my body had failed etc and I felt like I'd really let him down. In hindsight I know that's ridiculous but it's how I felt at the time.

You'll be ok OP, even if things don't work out this time you will get your baby soon enough Flowers

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16MrsE · 05/07/2017 15:47

Bless you both, I can only imagine your heart ache hun x x

Should I still stay positive or just assume now it's chemical? Need to get my head around it x

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Writerwannabe83 · 05/07/2017 16:02

I think only you can make that choice depending on what type of person you are.

When I realised my lines suddenly weren't getting darker (about 10 days after my initial BFP) I knew in my heart that something wasn't right. When my lines then started getting fainter I knew what was going to happen. People kept telling me to stay positive and that a "line is a line" and the "strengths of lines don't mean anything" etc but I knew I was going to miscarry.

By the time I actually did miscarry I had already accepted it was going to happen which did make things slightly more bearable because it didn't come as a surprise.

Your situation is different though because it's still such early days whereas in my case, because lines were fading after two weeks of being strong, it was obvious there was a problem.

I honestly don't know what my train of thought would be in your shoes. I'm quite a practical person though and I would probably take a test in the morning and if the line was really, really faint I would assume it wasn't going to be a successful pregnancy. But that's just me.

You can of course always go to your GP who can do bloods to check your HCG levels to see if they are rising and at the correct speed so that's always an option too if your test remains dubious tomorrow.

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16MrsE · 05/07/2017 16:09

Guess all I can do is wait until the morning then.. And hope and prey it's a successful pregnancy. I think I'll call the doctors as well after tomorrows test x

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Writerwannabe83 · 05/07/2017 17:07

Good luck, I will be checking in Flowers

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16MrsE · 05/07/2017 17:48

I've got and got some asda pregnancy tests. Will do one in the morning xxx

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MouseLove · 05/07/2017 18:18

Don't test in the afternoon this early. First morning wee only. From the test you posted it looks positive so congratulations!!!

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16MrsE · 05/07/2017 19:09

Not getting my hopes up too much canny wait for the morning to come so I can test xx

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16MrsE · 05/07/2017 20:35

held my pee from the last test at 2 got to say I'm tempted :/

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TheseAreTheGoodOldDays · 05/07/2017 20:46

Do it! Good luck! Xx

Writerwannabe83 · 05/07/2017 20:49

I'd do it too, lol Grin

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16MrsE · 05/07/2017 21:32

Wish I'd seen these earlier ended up doing a opk instead to resist temptation :/

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TheseAreTheGoodOldDays · 05/07/2017 22:01

What was the opk result?

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16MrsE · 05/07/2017 22:29

This was it after I left it while I had a cuppa

No period or pregnancy symptoms :/??
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16MrsE · 05/07/2017 23:12

Just had more watery brown on pad x

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Writerwannabe83 · 06/07/2017 07:46

Morning MrsE,

The brown watery discharge may be a positive thing as I think most women who have Chemicals then get their period as normal as opposed to what you're describing.

Have you tested again this morning?

TheseAreTheGoodOldDays · 06/07/2017 07:52

If I was you I'd just tests with a FRER this morning :) I know you were saying about not wanting to be disappointed but surely the OPKs are just causing you confusion and not giving a definitive answer? X

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16MrsE · 06/07/2017 08:59

This mornings results :,(

No period or pregnancy symptoms :/??
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Writerwannabe83 · 06/07/2017 09:06

I'm sorry Sad Flowers

I know you haven't said how old you are but I think if you're over 35 and have been TTC for 6 month she plus it is advised you see your GP anyway so if you are in that age bracket then maybe it's worth a visit x

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16MrsE · 06/07/2017 09:17

I don't get what's happened. I'm 24 and my husband is 30 x do I call the doctors? Been trying but not got through

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Writerwannabe83 · 06/07/2017 09:26

Have you read up about Chemical Pregnancies at all?

It might be worth you starting up a new thread in this forum about them, explain you've had one and you want to hear other experiences. It might help you understand it better and also to feel less alone and see how common it is.

I saw the GP when I started getting negative tests but that was only because I'd been getting strong positive results for over two weeks so had definitely been viably pregnant, hence why my loss was termed an early miscarriage and not a Chemical Pregnancy.

You haven't done anything wrong, it's just one of those very unfortunate things. I think the statistic on successfully falling pregnant during a cycle is something like 25% and the remaining 75% of women either don't conceive at all or they do but it turns out to be a CP. I don't know how accurate that is though.

In your case I probably wouldn't go to the GP just yet but if your period hasnt arrived by the start of next week even though tests remain negative then I would make an appointment.

Have you told your husband?

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16MrsE · 06/07/2017 09:33

Going to tell him when he's home from work. I'd planned to tell him I was pregnant, not that I was but now i'm not :( x

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Writerwannabe83 · 06/07/2017 09:41

It's really shitty. This is why a lot of women don't like testing early as they said if they did have a CP they'd rather not know about it, I.e they'd rather think there period was just a few days late rather than go for the happiness of seeing a second line for it then to disappear a few days later.

When would your period actually have been due?

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16MrsE · 06/07/2017 09:48

my period was due from Sunday hence me taking my first test Monday which I got a positive on xx

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