When will everything go back to normal?

[saxony]

Hi I am wondering if anyone will be able to help me. I had a bfp on New Year's Eve (Sat) but started bleeding on the Monday right through until the Friday. I went to the doctors on the Tuesday to get a scan but they couldn't fit me in until the following Tuesday.
As the bleeding carried on the whole week, I cancelled the scan as to me it was obvious that I had miscarried (cramps all week too).
I had blood tests on Friday 13 Jan to check my Thyroid. The doctor's rung me the following week to ask me to repeat the blood test as I was not on Thyroxine and I was pregnant. So I had to explain that I had actually miscarried and that it was probably the hormones still in my system.

I was suprised the the blood test read pregnant when I had miscarried nearly 2 weeks before. Does anyone know how long the hormone stays in your system and roughly how long until my period returns?

Thank you

Hi, I think everyone is different. It is possible for you to ovulate as quickly as two weeks after a miscarriage so you could be pregnant again. I suffered a mmc in September and I had my next period exactly 28days later. Almost as if my mmc was my period (cruel, right). Which means I must have ovulated pretty much straight away.
What did the doctors say when you said you had miscarried? Maybe you should go and have some tests done just to make sure??
Sorry, I don't think I have been much help

My thoughts are with you anyway

Thanks Caroline
I didn't speak to the doctor, but the receptionist instead. She sounded as if she was announcing some good news which took me by suprise really as I was only have my thyroid and full blood count done. I really did not expect her to know about my pregnancy. She was mortified when I explained. She asked the dr what to do and the dr told her that she still wanted a repaeat blood test done in 4 weeks. I would think that THAT blood test shouldnt read pregnant, surely!?

Hi, very sorry to hear what you are going through. I'm not sure if this helps but I had a mmc at New Year at 10 weeks & had medical management to miscarry. I had the medication on Tues 10th Jan & was told to take pg test 3 weeks from then so next Tues. The doc saidby then hormone levels should be normal & if medical management has been completely successful I will get a negative result. Hope that helps.

Not if your not no. I think (I may be wrong) that 4/6 weeks is about the norm.
Stay positive but if you don't think you can wait that long go to he docs and have your hormone level checked, then have it checked again after a few days or a week and then you will know for sure.

Thanks both. Sorry to hear about what you both have been through too. I took my by suprise - miscarriage is what happens to other people. Never entered my head that I would ever go through this.

I may take a home test at the end of next week and see what that says. Plus with the blood tests mid Feb...I should have a clear idea.
Well and if my af pops along!!! That will put me on the right track.

Thanks again

So sorry you have been through this.
I also had a MC on New Years Day when I was 10 weeks pregnant.I had started bleeding on Boxing Day and wasn't too concerned,until I passed the sac a few days later and then had a scan to check it was all complete,which it was.
However,I bled continuosly for 5 weeks when pregnant with ds2 and thought I had miscarried when infact everything was still ok.Seeing as you cancelled your scan,are you definately sure you miscarried? When I bled with ds2,I bled bright red blood and there was lots of it,but no clots and obviously no sac (sorry if tmi)
I'm also wondering when things will get back to normal.In the last few days I've had lots of pregnancy symptoms but have also done lots of cheapy Ebay pregnancy tests,which are all showing negative,so not sure if my body is just playing tricks on me.
I hope you get some answers soon

Sorry to all of you for your sad losses. I suffered an early MC at the end of November and hope that the following is of some help...

Saxony - I started bleeding about 5 days after a BFP and it continued for a week. I was very certain it was a MC as had an immediate loss of pregnancy symptoms (up until then I had been experiencing a lot of symptoms from very early on).

I did another test again 10 days after the bleeding had started and it was negative, which helped to draw a final line under things as the pregnancy symptoms had started to creep back and I was beginning to wonder what was going on.

Next period came 31 days after MC started (normally 28 day cycle) with ovulation symptoms in between, so pretty much back to normal in terms of dates. It does seem that most people get back to a normal cycle quite quickly, having read lots of MN postings on the subject!

I hope you get the answers you need soon - bleeding doesn't necessarily mean a MC but I honestly don't know how soon you can get a conclusive answer, but I imagine that the amount of time it takes for the hormones to normalise varies from person to person.

Pepper - my MC was much earlier than yours, but one thing I did notice is that since then, the symptoms I had during pregnancy have kept on repeating in a cyclical fashion, which has been really disturbing! Just before Xmas, in the days before AF was due, I had belly button pain, nausea, bloating, sore boobs and horrific nightmares etc, all of which I had had when I was pregnant. Finally I was able to put it down to mad hormone stuff when AF arrived (didn't think it was likely I could be pg).

And now AF is due again tomorrow, and the same thing has happened again this month - have had 10 days already of nausea and lots of strange stabbing pains. I have done a couple of tests which were negative, so can only assume my hormones are not quite right, or that things are a bit unsettled for a while. I am going to go to the docs on Monday to try and find out what's going on as it's so hard not knowing why these symptoms come and go all of the time.

Good luck to all of you with recovering x

Thanks peeps for your advice.
I still haven't had an af although it is 4 weeks today since the mc so expecting it anytime soon. I still can't believe that it is only 4 weeks - feels like a lifetime. It's so draining.
You are right Pepper, I did not have it confirmed as a mc but I too lost the pregnancy symptoms that I had had - sore boobs and slight nausea. Together with the cramps and bleeding I just took it as a mc.
I'll keep you posted if and when af turns up
x