Advise please about faint positive test and high opk results.

[Hollycharlie]

Hi all, looking for some advice please. I went for my first scan expecting to be 10weeks on 7/8 and was told baby hadn’t made it past 6 weeks. The Thursday 10/8 I started spotting, the Sunday 13/8 full on miscarriage, felt like labour pains passed what I thought was everything by Monday 14/8. But kept bleeding quite a bit, Friday 18/8 I went to the bathroom after a lot of blood and felt like a golf/tennis ball fell out of me, I’m sad to say I couldn’t bare to look. Sunday completely stopped bleeding. Yesterday and today, I took a pregnancy test and had the faintest line you can barely see on the PT and the OPK looks highly positive. My question is no.1 by everyone’s experience do you think everything’s passed and No.2 is the tests wrong particularly the OPK test and should I just assume it’s still detecting my hormones? Thanks so much in advanced , I just don’t seem to be getting the answers I’m looking for they all seem to give different info. We did DTD yesterday and today just incase as I’m desperate to fall again but now I just don’t want to get my hopes up. Thank you 🙏

I’m sorry for your loss.
When I miscarried around 7 weeks I still tested positive for 5 weeks. I imagine, with a positive on a HPT, the OPK is also still detecting your hormones and giving a false positive tbh

@SocialHistoryStereotypes thank you, sorry to hear you’ve been in the same boat. It’s just such an awful time. Yes I thought that too re the testing, but it’s just so confusing so many people saying your so fertile after miscarriage, and it would be exact same days to when I actually conceived initially , but then I can’t understand how when you’ve lost so much of your insides that you can count a day of spotting as first day of your new cycle. I’ve had absolutely no help from the NHS at all not even a call to find out why I didn’t turn up to my epu scan, and the doctors refused to see me when I needed strong painkillers as they were too busy, told me to go to AE which just wasn’t an option as I was in too much pain. Thankfully I have private care with work and spoke to a GP over the phone who prescribed but I can’t believe how awful NHS have been. Hope most people get a bit more care at least and are told information. 💔

So sorry for your loss OP. 10 weeks is the peak of HCG, which is the hormone that makes a pregnancy test show positive. It can take several weeks for a pregnancy test to be negative again after a miscarriage, both of mine have been negative 3 weeks after surgical management. My advice would be to not use the opk as it wont tell you anything useful at this stage, and re test every few days until you get a clear negative pregnancy test. After this you might ovulate before your next period but you might not (I didn't). You want to be sure that all the HCG has left your system so that when you do try again you know for sure it's a new pregnancy. I'm sorry you've had such a rubbish NHS experience. it's mad how much the care level varies all over the country.

When you do get your negative test then you can start using opks again to see if you ovulate or not before your next period xx

@moosey89 thank you so much for your advice. I’m so sorry you’ve had to go through this twice. Life’s so cruel at times. It didn’t even cross my mind something like this would happen, and now if I conceive again all I will be worried about is whether everything’s ok. This is definitely not a good club to be in, but I am so grateful for everyone’s support and advice. Thank you so much again for your help I will be leaving the OPK’s in their box for the time being. We’re so lucky to have one already (I didn’t even know we wanted a second until it happened, and now I’m desperate to fill the void) , but if it doesn’t happen in the next few months I think we will stay as we are. It’s just too worrying. How did you get on? Xxx

@Hollycharlie thank you - it's so hard losing a baby. The 2 for me were lost 4 years apart, I still don't have any living children (first time TTC was about 7 years ago). Because I've had a chemical pregnancy too the GP has referred me to the recurrent miscarriage clinic so I'm hoping to get some answers and that the next pregnancy is a sticky one! I'm just back into my first proper cycle after my second MMC, and typically my partner is away for a couple of days but hopefully we catch the end of it. My advice would only be don't let TTC take over, keep enjoying your intimacy etc as much as possible, it can be a really difficult ride if it doesn't work the way you thought it would. I hope you get a BFP soon, and in the meantime this site is full of really lovely supportive human beings to chat/vent to when you need it x

@moosey89 thank you so much. Sorry to hear you’ve been through so much. So difficult. Good luck for the future I really hope you too get a BFP asap too and it goes to plan this time. ❤️❤️