Weak positive at 17dpo - worried after miscarriages

[Paperboats]

Hello,

I know I'm probably just fueling any anxiety by posting here, but I have just had a late positive after 2 previous MMCs. I'm currently on cyclogest and I'm worried that I'm just prolonging an unviable pregnancy by continuing to take them.

I took a first response test last Friday at 13dpo, it had the tiniest shadow of a line, but I assumed it was an evap line as it was so faint and I have read a lot about those. So I stopped taking the cyclogest to induce a period. Which didn't actually come, so yesterday at 16 dpo I took another first response after seeing the world's faintest line on an easy@home test. So I took the cyclogest again (kicking myself a bit for stopping!). BUT after taking another easy@home today for fmu there is a line stronger than yesterday but its still so faint! For my last pregnancies, although unsuccessful, I had a much stronger line from 12 or 14dpo.

I'm so worried its just a chemical or non viable and I should just stop the cyclogest and let it be?

Do you think my lines are way too light for 16/17 dpo? I'm going off my LH peak which happened the morning of the 24th of Feb. They are so light and pathetic!

What's really odd is I feel really sick today, and in previous pregnancies I had no symptoms at all. As my HCG is clearly so much lower that makes no sense to me?! Unless it's the cyclogest?

Hi lovely, they do look faint for 17dpo but remember that LH isn’t an exact science. I know everyone says you ovulate 24 hours after LH surge, but I’ve read a lot of places that say it can happen at any time really - you can even get double LH surges throughout your cycle which you don’t catch as you stop testing after the first one! Unless you’re tracking your BBT, you never truly know when you ovulate.
I would personally say guard your heart as it does look very faint, but try not to stress too much. Just keep testing every 48 hours and see if the lines get darker (Easier said than done, I know all too well 😃) xxx

@FrankieSpencer thank you for your reply :) I have emailed the specialist's office that prescribed me the cyclogest, so maybe they have more advice on what to do. I was definitely thinking that it should be stronger this morning.

I just wanted to update here in case anyone sees this and and is in the same situation. My lines did progress but quite slowly compared to what I saw on here, and I never got a dye stealer - I get quite thirsty so I'm not really sure how diluted my urine was as times, I was obsessively testing multiple times a day and convinced myself it was ectopic as I also had some sharp pains on my right side that came and went.

After one episode of spotting I called EPU and they booked me in for a scan. And everything was fine! By LMP I was 5w3d, there was a sac and yolk sac but no embryo, but considering I tested positive so late that wasn't a surprise.

I went back 10 days later and there was a small embryo with a heartbeat. Still measuring a few days behind. I'm obviously still stressing out because of my last MCs (the first had a heartbeat and still didn't progress), but basically, you can test late and still have a pregnancy, it's not always bad news.

I have attached my tests to show the progression. The top first response one is what I thought was 16dpo. Maybe I ovulated later, maybe I also then implanted later. But there's something trying to grow in there :)

@Paperboats did this turn out ok for you?