How long after MC did you have negative tests?

[Chicken123]

I was 5 weeks when I mc on 7th June. Stopped bleeding completely on 12th.
All pregnancy symptoms almost disappeared before I started bleeding.
Symptoms such as headaches, extreme bloating, occasional nausea, veiny breasts, white pimple like marks around my areola’s, back ache and lightheadedness on/off today, have all come back.

I don’t know if this is my body getting back to normal or what. I’ve had a mixture or watery/creamy mucus as well as ewcm.

I just want to know if any ladies who have unfortunately gone or are going through this have had the same or similar experiences and should I have completely negative PGs now because I was so early?
I’ve just done a test and still faint positive?

So confused x

Forgot to add the pictures

Up to 2 weeks after bleeding stopped.
For this reason I felt there was no point in doing a pregnancy test.
I knew it was done when I got my next period.
Hth

Sorry for your loss OP. I MC'd at 6-7 weeks. Hcg levels in my blood were much lower than expected when I went to the EPU and the urine test was negative. They did a scan and could see where implantation had occurred but sadly there was nothing there. Had to go back two days later for another blood test and levels were even lower. I was asked to take a HPT two weeks later to confirm levels didn't rise again, in case my dates were wrong or it was ectopic, and this was also negative.

I'd maybe wait a few days and do another test, if still showing positive get in touch with your local EPU x

It took me 3 weeks exactly.

@crosser62 @Chanel05
I’m sorry for the losses you both went through. How many weeks were you both?
I think it’s just me being desperate now. It was my first pregnancy and obviously first loss and thinking about it, I look like a crazy woman, but I’m just clutching at anything and in denial so much! I don’t really know how to stop feeling like I am..

@HansBanans that’s good you had all those tests, I wasn’t offered anything. The hospital just told me to let my body do it’s thing, test on 13th (which I never did) and then I guess if it was still positive they’d do bloods or something but yeah..I’ll just wait and see what the test says in a few days x

@Chicken123 this was all pre-COVID so not sure if that's the reasoning behind it. Either that or a postcode lottery - I'm based in Scotland so may vary area by area. Please don't feel crazy, regardless of how early it was it's still a loss and you have every right to mourn. I think the midwives are so used to it that it's just par for the course and almost normal for them, they don't feel it personally like we do x

I have had multiple miscarriages.
I only tested after the first, didn’t ever bother after that one. Absolutely no point.
I was 9 weeks the first time.

@Chicken123 my baby stopped growing at 8+1 and I found out at 9 weeks. I didn't end up having surgical management until I was 12 weeks. The symptoms went immediately after surgery, apart from the HCG detection on a test.

With my first mc, a mmc, mine took 6 weeks to turn negative and it was so incredibly frustrating seeing a positive test and knowing with 100% certainty I wasn’t pregnant anymore. I think probably you just need to give it another few more days to a week. I’m really sorry for your loss. I understand entirely the not wanting to believe it thing. It’s so emotionally difficult.

I had a mmc at 12 weeks, when scanned it was only measuring 7 weeks. I stopped bleeding about 2 weeks later but still had a positive test 9 weeks later. It took 6 months to actually fall pregnant again x

Hi everyone, hi @Chicken123. I hope you are doing ok.

I’ve just been through this too. I had an early loss at just about 5 weeks. I bled for about 1.5 days and really not that much came out, not even enough for AF. I started bleeding on 3rd of June. Still positive on the 4th. Stopped bleeding on the 5th and had a negative test on the 7th. But I have to say that I just could not believe it. I did not have that much bleeding, I just could not understand it. I still had symptoms, in fact they felt like they were surging for a couple of days after. I did another test on the 9th and finally managed to accept it then. It really is very hard, I do feel for what you are going through. It’s a really confusing time. It is all so abstract. How can you be pregnant and then suddenly not pregnant again. I really wanted to go back to the doctor and ask for a scan - I was told the same just got home and wait it out. I just wanted someone to talk me through it, or show me proof or confirm it again, I couldn’t even be sure it was finished. I felt sad for everything I had been looking forward to, I had counted when I would be on maternity leave and imagined myself telling friends. I felt guilty that I was thinking of me, and not the life that wasn’t to be.

Once I felt like the bleeding wasn’t coming back and the strong cramps stopped I felt ok. For me As it was early I felt like it wasn’t a viable pregnancy and that’s why we lost it. The line on the test was always faint. I feel like I’m glad at least it was early. In a strange way I felt like it also showed us things are working, it was just unlucky.

But we all process these things in different ways. However you are feeling is ok, and I think not being able to accept it is totally understandable and part of the process. U will move on, but in your own time.

We have decided to try again straight away, and I think this has helped for me. Bleeding stopped on the 5th and think I ovulated sooner than I expected on the 15th, as I had ‘egg white’ discharge. We have been doing the deed every 4 days. I Now have sore boobs for the last 3 days. I’m a bit confused as to whether it’s a PG symptom or if it could be related to the loss. But feeling hopeful!

Hang in there, it is a difficult confusing time, but it will pass. Try to be kind to
Yourself if you can. Happy to chat if it helps. Sending you kind thoughts.

About 6 weeks to turn negative after mmc at 11 weeks

Hi OP, sorry to hear about your loss. I think the reality is that every woman really is different. I had a MC at exactly six weeks and bled slightly but consistently for over 5 weeks (!) - which felt insanely long for how early on I was. Only once the bleeding stopped, the tests turned negative. In retrospect, I think I had some retained issue that they missed on the scan when they confirmed complete MC...

*tissue, not issue ;) though I had PLENTY of issues with how I got treated during my MC, too 🙄

Goodness @primrosechill that is such a long time for 6 weeks. I’m sorry you had to go through that. Hope you are doing ok.

@HansBanans @crosser62 @Chanel05 @emvy @chubbyhotchoc @primrosechill
I am so sorry for all of your losses. No matter how many weeks you were when you experience something like this, it’s still a loss.
I hope, wherever you are in your journeys, you get your babies at the end!

@Bouncytree
I could’ve written when you have exactly. I felt and still do feel exactly like you. We were going to try straight away, but have decided to hold off for 6 months.
Showering you with all the love and baby dust x

Yes, just to reassure you, I got my babies in the end
Keep going, it took mountains and sometimes insurmountable barriers, but we got there. X

@crosser62
I’m very much looking forward to just having the rest of the year to relax before we start trying in December.
I just know I’m going to, as well as all women who have gone through it, be very anxious thinking it’ll happen to me again x

@Chicken123 so sorry for your loss. Your rainbow baby is out there 🌈. I'm now 27+6 with mine.

Ah how exciting @Chanel05 congratulations on your pregnancy x

Sounds like a good plan @Chicken123. Nice to not have to think about it for a bit. And give some time to relax and focus on you. Hope you are feeling a little better. I had a completely unproblematic first pregnancy, and believe I will have again. It’s unfortunately a very unpleasant but common thing to happen. Enjoy the rest time x