Confused

[DaisyOzzy13]

Hi,
I got a positive test at the weekend and had all the symptoms, missed period, nausea.
Yesterday started with terrible cramping and bleeding, was told to go to hospital by gp where had blood tests.
Had the most awful doctor that spoke to me and said blood test showed pregnancy but I was miscarrying and he booked me into EPU this morning.
Just had a call from EPU and they have told me to not go in for scan as there would be no point.
My blood levels show that there was pregnancy but have dropped and coupled with the bleeding/pain etc there would be nothing to scan and that I'm now not pregnant. Urine test at hospital yesterday showed negative.
My nausea etc has all completely gone too.
Just feel confused and alone.
Was I ever actually pregnant? I guess I had to have been to get a positive test?
This is my first time of experiencing any of this gone form happiness to sadness in 24 hours.

It's very rare to get a false positive on a pregnancy test, so yes, you were pregnant. Unfortunately it is very common that something goes wrong as the fertilised egg implants or in the very early stages of the cells dividing that means the pregnancy was not viable.
Very early scans are often inconclusive, you need to be 6 weeks pregnant before they'd expect to see a foetal pole (and still only a few mm) with a heartbeat, so many EPUs will not scan you before that point.
The MC rate of recognised pregnancies (defined as a positive test beyond the point where you missed a period) is about 15%, but it's probably more like half of fertilised eggs that don't make it. Testing early means we know know about these chemical pregnancies/early miscarriages whereas our mothers would have written it off as a late/heavy period. I know that doesn't make it any easier, I'm sure in common with most women you had hopes and dreams for your baby as soon as you saw a line on the HPT, but you need to know that the likelihood is that everything will be different next time. Take some time to grieve, it's very upsetting to lose a pregnancy at any stage

Thanks for the bakingtins. it as all just a bit confusing. I'm bleeding quite heavily still and feel rough as hell but have been advised just to let nature take it's course. I'm ok one min and crying the next guess it's the hormones too. Having no experience of anything like this before I feel a bit lost. Thanks for your reply x