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Pregnancy after miscarriage/ ‘period’?

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Rose993 · 26/11/2019 13:10

Hi ladies

So unfortunately I had a miscarriage at 8 weeks, it was a missed miscarriage so I didn’t bleed until the day before my 12 week scan (6 weeks ago now)

Pregnancy tests were consistently positive for a month following this, even though a scan 3 weeks after confirmed the miscarriage as complete. Tests got lighter but I was under the impression I couldn’t ovulate until the pregnant hormone had completely gone / dropped to undetectable levels. I did a test on Friday 15th Nov and it was still positive, but started spotting Monday 18th Nov, turned heavier by the Tuesday (enough to fill a tampon- sorry TMI), but eased off by the Wednesday afternoon and went back to just brown discharge (old blood). I assume this was my period but just a bit of an odd one.

After thinking about the spotting, I’ve taken another pregnancy test today to check levels and it’s still positive.

Has anyone had any experience of this before? Surely I shouldn’t had ovulated/ had a period if I still had pregnancy hormones? Could it be a new pregnancy? It seemed too heavy to be implantation bleeding but the blood seemed very dark (old blood) so could a shift in hormones just have triggered old blood from the miscarriage?

So bloody confused! X

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hannahs87 · 26/11/2019 13:20

I had a missed miscarriage at 8weeks 2 weeks ago now. I'm no longer showing as positive but what you've described with the bleeding has happened to me this week. I stopped bleeding from miscarriage last Monday. Then on Saturday has a heavy bleed which i assumed was the start of my period then nothing.

hannahs87 · 26/11/2019 13:21

Oh I'm using opk sticks daily to monitor ovulating as I'm still breastfeeding my 15month old and only had two periods before I got pregnant (then miscarried).

Rose993 · 26/11/2019 14:26

@hannahs87 so sorry for your loss 💔 Im using OPK’s too just to try and gage where I’m at, seems these peeked just before my bleed last week which I know can be normal before a period anyway but thinking maybe I did ovulate last week (Discharge was similar to what it would usually be during ovulation) and it was ovulation bleeding / the change in hormones that caused it not an actual period? Why are our body’s sooo confusing?! Just wish i could press reset and get back to things being normal x

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