Hi everyone
Sorry for the very long post but I'm driving myself mad here googling everything under the sun, so need to just sound it out with people who might have had the same experience..
I got an extremely faint positive on the day my period was due (so faint I almost didn't even see it) then very slightly darker the next day but then started spotting which freaked me out as this would be my second baby and I had no spotting at all or any kind of pregnancy symptoms until at least 6 weeks with the first. It was only like brown discharge to start with so I thought maybe implantation bleeding, but then it got progressively darker and heavier (but weirdly only in the day time, it always stopped in the evening / over night / morning) until the 4th day where it was actual blood and period like cramps and I was totally sure it was an early miscarriage. I had stopped testing after the 3rd day where it had got a tiny bit darker again but still not strong at all and so when I googled, I realised it must have been a chemical pregnancy.
After that day it started getting lighter again but I just wanted it to be over as it was affecting me emotionally a lot more than I thought it would this early, and so from everything I'd read about chemical pregnancies I thought if I did a test it would be super light or negative and then at least I'd have closure and be able to move on.
To my surprise it was the darkest it had been - the same colour as the control line!? so then I was so confused as I'd been sure this test would just confirm that I wasn't pregnant!
The spotting stopped after 1 week and I've been testing every few days since and it's been getting darker and darker and it's now about twice as dark as the control line.
I have a scan booked in for next week but I'm scared about how optimistic I'm now feeling and would just love someone to tell me this is totally normal or to help me be more realistic so that I'm not so devastated if it's bad news at the scan......