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Early pregnancy loss (5.5 weeks) or reaction to period delay tablets

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Natty2 · 03/10/2026 15:10

feeling very confused on what may have happened to me earlier this week
I was expecting a period a few weeks ago but had taken some period delay tablets whilst away on holiday.
oddly whilst away I had a few occasions where I questioned whether I might be pregnant (but very early days)
I dismissed it as it took 2.5 years ttc my first, and he was born via IVF.
a few days ago I had sharp cramping followed by a bleed which I assumed would be a period. The next morning I passed a grape sized grey sac with attached blood clot. It was very unusual so I called my husband to show him, who also agreed that he wasn’t sure if I had experienced an early miscarriage
the affects of period delay would normally be heavier clotting and I believe in rare circumstances you can have a decidual cast - which mimics the shape of the uterus. This wasn’t that. I have taken these tablets numerous times in the past and never passed anything like this. I feel in my gut that I may have been pregnant, but I also don’t know whether 5.5 weeks would have been too early to have seen something.
how were other peoples experience at an early miscarriage stage? Or maybe you experienced something similar on period delay tablets?
just wish I had tested when I had that niggling feeling but I was away and very doubtful!!

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Miraclemuma03 · 04/10/2026 06:55

It does sound like it could have been an early MC . The embryo itself would have been too small to make out but its the sac that comes away and inside of it would have everything intact usually.

Natty2 · 04/10/2026 13:37

@Miraclemuma03thank you for your reply. I do have a gut feeling that it was

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Springcloud26 · 04/10/2026 14:22

@Miraclemuma03 I had a MMC in July at 9 weeks but sac had stopped developing at 6 weeks. I passed a small grey piece of tissue among the blood, which I think was the sac. It sounds like it could have been.

Miraclemuma03 · 04/10/2026 21:42

Natty2 · 04/10/2026 13:37

@Miraclemuma03thank you for your reply. I do have a gut feeling that it was

Im sorry you experienced that. I hope your going to be alright..

Miraclemuma03 · 04/10/2026 21:44

Springcloud26 · 04/10/2026 14:22

@Miraclemuma03 I had a MMC in July at 9 weeks but sac had stopped developing at 6 weeks. I passed a small grey piece of tissue among the blood, which I think was the sac. It sounds like it could have been.

Im sorry for your loss. Sometimes the body reabsorbs some or all of the tissue so it gets smaller before exiting the body. I hope your ok.

Natty2 · 05/10/2026 10:52

@Springcloud26sorry to hear about your experience and thank you for sharing x

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