Chemical pregnancy?

lilymay22 · 2025-01-01T20:02:27+00:00

Hi all! I'm just here looking for some information on chemical pregnancies as I feel I don't know the first thing about them! The reason I'd like to be educated is because since hearing of them I was wondering if it's something that I experienced myself last year, I received a vvfl on a boots early detection test that looked pink in person (pics below of tests) But after doing another test a few days later they were bfn's, this was a few months back so I don't remember symptoms etc but I'd just like to be educated for the future (fingers crossed I won't experience one). Anyways I'd appreciate anyone with any knowledge! Thank u 🤍✨👶🏽🍼

nicolenorris · 01/01/2025 21:07

Hiya, I've just had a chemical pregnancy, I'm currently on day 3 of the bleeding. Such a terribly devastating thing to go through. I tested positive last Monday and carried on testing throughout the week, the lines got a tad bit darker (still so faint though), then stayed the same and then started to fade away. I even got a positive digital test on Thursday, but by Sunday the line was barely visible and Monday it was completely negative and that day I started bleeding.

I had so many pregnancy symptoms including terrible bloating and sickness after I ate which was why I tested. But as soon as the line started to fade the symptoms faded away too. I got my first positive test 7 days before my period was due, so for a whole week I believed I was pregnant, I have learnt my lesson with early testing! If I had tested later I would have saved a whole lot of heart ache. The bleeding has been like a normal period for me, maybe a tad bit more clotty and I was quite crampy the first day but it's been okay apart from that. If I hadn't of tested I would never had known put it that way.

This could have very much been a chemical pregnancy as you could have tested the last minute just before the test was about to fade away. I really hope you don't experience one in the future, it really is so heartbreaking x

Objectiontime · 01/01/2025 21:10

@lilymay22 Looking at your tests and going on what you have said, I would say there is a good chance this was a chemical pregnancy. Chemical pregnancies end before you would be 5 weeks pregnant. After this point tgey are called clinical pregnancies. Chemicals are very common and may end before you have any symptoms, or like my own, you may feel pregnancy symptoms if you are a person who gets them early and then the positive test fades and bleeding starts within a day or two.

sel2223 · 01/01/2025 23:52

A chemical is basically a loss which occurs very early, before 5 weeks.

You ovulate and an egg is fertilised so you are pregnant however for one reason or another it doesn't 'stick' and you have what seems like a normal period or one that is slightly late.
Since many women don't test until after missing a period, it's hard to know exactly how many women experience this as some won't even be aware it has happened.

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lilymay22 · 01/01/2025 23:52

nicolenorris · 01/01/2025 21:07

Hiya, I've just had a chemical pregnancy, I'm currently on day 3 of the bleeding. Such a terribly devastating thing to go through. I tested positive last Monday and carried on testing throughout the week, the lines got a tad bit darker (still so faint though), then stayed the same and then started to fade away. I even got a positive digital test on Thursday, but by Sunday the line was barely visible and Monday it was completely negative and that day I started bleeding.

I had so many pregnancy symptoms including terrible bloating and sickness after I ate which was why I tested. But as soon as the line started to fade the symptoms faded away too. I got my first positive test 7 days before my period was due, so for a whole week I believed I was pregnant, I have learnt my lesson with early testing! If I had tested later I would have saved a whole lot of heart ache. The bleeding has been like a normal period for me, maybe a tad bit more clotty and I was quite crampy the first day but it's been okay apart from that. If I hadn't of tested I would never had known put it that way.

This could have very much been a chemical pregnancy as you could have tested the last minute just before the test was about to fade away. I really hope you don't experience one in the future, it really is so heartbreaking x

I'm so sorry to hear this happened to you! 💔 thank you so much for sharing your experience with me, this has definitely helped me understand chemical pregnancies a lot more. I am now starting to think it very much could've been a chemical pregnancy as that month I was certain we had conceived but I held off testing too early for the first time because I was so worried I was wrong, thank you so much, sending you all the luck and happiness for 2025 x

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lilymay22 · 01/01/2025 23:54

Objectiontime · 01/01/2025 21:10

@lilymay22 Looking at your tests and going on what you have said, I would say there is a good chance this was a chemical pregnancy. Chemical pregnancies end before you would be 5 weeks pregnant. After this point tgey are called clinical pregnancies. Chemicals are very common and may end before you have any symptoms, or like my own, you may feel pregnancy symptoms if you are a person who gets them early and then the positive test fades and bleeding starts within a day or two.

I'm sorry to hear you experienced one yourself, but thank you so much for sharing your experience, I do now believe it could've been a chemical pregnancy 🥺x

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lilymay22 · 01/01/2025 23:55

sel2223 · 01/01/2025 23:52

A chemical is basically a loss which occurs very early, before 5 weeks.

You ovulate and an egg is fertilised so you are pregnant however for one reason or another it doesn't 'stick' and you have what seems like a normal period or one that is slightly late.
Since many women don't test until after missing a period, it's hard to know exactly how many women experience this as some won't even be aware it has happened.

Thank you! X

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