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Reality check please

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digitalgirl · 12/04/2010 18:07

Am pretty sure I'm having another miscarriage. I'm supposed to be 7 weeks today, as was charting cervix position when TTC (irregular cycles). Started spotting brown yesterday along with cramping just like my last MC. Today have passed a few smallish brown/black clots and still bleeding brown.

Have just come back from hospital where scan shows just an empty-looking sac - gynae thought it looked too small to even be 5 weeks. I did a positive hpt 19 days ago. Convinced myself it's definitely over.

They did a blood test and gynae just called me back to tell me my HCG levels match the size of the sac and that it's definitely not a confirmed MC until they retest HCG levels in two days time. So now I'm wondering if maybe it isn't over. Wish she hadn't called and given me false hope.

I know I'll know for sure on Wednesday but I would just like someone to come along and tell me that it's impossible to have taken a positive test at what I thought was 15dpo and have a viable sac that measures less than 5 weeks. I mean what's the earliest you can get a BFP? 8dpo? That would still make me supposed to be 6 weeks. And you'd see a yolk and fetal pole by then surely...

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grapenuts · 12/04/2010 18:41

Hi digitalgirl

I am really sorry you are going through this. I remember reading your posts on the ttc site which I would stalk when I was ttc.

I could have almost written much of your post myself a couple of weeks ago. I went for a scan at 7w 3d - they saw a smaller than should be fetal pole (4 mm instead of 1 cm apparently) but no hb. They said 95% failed pregnancy. But they made me hang for a week before another scan just to be 100% sure.

That gave me the hope you are feeling. I knew in the back of my head that by 7 wks there should have been a hb. It does not sound good to be honest that your sac measures less than 5 weeks as I am sure you know. But the cruel reality is that it is a mental waiting game until you are told either way for sure.

I found the limbo the worst - a billion times worse than my subsequent ERPC last thurs. I know that it is so stressful and I am so sorry that you are feeling the worry particularly after the excitement of getting pregnant. And it must be that much harder because this is not the first time for you.

So I just wanted to say I hope you manage to get through this difficult time.

digitalgirl · 12/04/2010 18:53

Thanks grapenuts, so sorry that you've been through this too. I know it's over, but I can't help but hope that somehow they've measured it wrong or that my womb is tilted or it's some other medical marvel that actually means it's all fine. Silly straws we grasp at.

At least I'll have my definitive answer on Wednesday. Small consolation.

But why oh why did my boobs get bigger this week when hormone levels should have been dropping? Am not pregnant anymore, just fat

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nomorewine · 17/04/2010 09:34

So sorry you are going through this. I found out I had had a MMC 2 weeks ago at my 12 week scan. Baby had stopped growing at 7 weeks, which was around the time my pregnancy symptoms kicked in & by the time I went for my scan, my boobs were massive & I had a little bump. The body can be cruel.

Will be thinking of you on Wednesday.

nomorewine · 17/04/2010 09:36

Sorry, just realised this was posted last Monday. How did you get on?

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