Heavy bleeding at 4 wks, but still BFP?

[chocolatesocks]

I've been getting BFP's for the last few days, but then started bleeding last night (lightly) which I thought would be my normal implantation bleeding.
However, this morning it was much heavier, with cramps. I did a CB digital late morning, which came up 'pregnant 1-2 wks'. The bleeding has continued and I've just done another test which is still positive.

Has anyone had this happen? We've been through IVF for this pregnancy, so I'm wondering if maybe it could be ectopic, or maybe disappearing twin (even though we only had one embryo put back)? My mind is desperate to make sense of it!

Any advice or hearing similar situations would be much appreciated

Hi there, some woman do bleed during their pregnancies and things are still ok. However, for those who sadly the outcome is not a positive one, they can and do still get BFP for days/weeks after the pregnancy has failed. It can take a while for all of the hormones to vanish.
Can you contact the clinic that did the IVF and ask their advice??
I really wish you lots of luck and hope that your outcome is a good one.

Thanks razzdazz, I'm going in tomorrow morning for a blood test, and I've already spoken to them today, but they weren't much help really. I would've thought that at this stage there would be such a low level of hormone that it would disappear very quickly. As it is, the test this afternoon was darker than the one from yesterday.

Well, I suppose I'll be a little wiser tomorrow...

chocolate at such an early stage I would have thought the BFP would disappear pretty quickly, especially those digi ones that are not that sensitive.

Keeping everything crossed for you

Hi, it can be worrying having bleeding and it may go on to be perfectly ok.

However, it is also true that you will have pregancy hormones long after the pregnancy has ended. IME (pregnancy hormones stll present up to 2 weeks after the mc is complete)

oooh and all the best, evrything crossed for you, good luck x

Hope all is well chocolatesocksxx

I went to the hospital this morning, and they've just rung to confirm an early miscarriage At least it's at this point rather than later on.

Thanks for all your posts

so sorry to hear that, even though its early, don;t underestimate how awful you might feel and how much of a loss you consider it. It must be so much harder to deal with given it was IVF as well. I am so sorry :(

Chocolatesocks my heart is with you. Nothing anyone can say can make it feel any better or easier but you are right this early on is better than when you are more used to the idea and less expecting of uncertain news. Getting pregnant through IVF has already happened once so it can happen again. It does take time to recover and you will feel emotionally unstable for a while but it does get easier. I miscarried last February at 12 weeks after seeing a heartbeat and being told everything was fine at 8 weeks. It was devastating. We have had to undergo IUI to conceive so I can totally understand how exhausted of the whole process you must be. It sometimes gets to me how easy it is for some people to have children. One shot and they hit the jackpot without worry or concern. This happened to someone I know. Came of pill and four weeks later announced pregnancy. Bought pram and crib before twelve week scan and hey presto nine months later born was a baby. She repeated the same story two years later. However I believe folks like us are blessed, because we have to fight so hard to become parents we will love and appreciate our children, when we get to that point, in an way that other parents cannot imagine. When we get as far as to hold our child everything we have gone through will have been worthwhile and as individuals and as couples we will be so much stronger and wiser.

Hold in there and grab up all the support there is on offer. Many will be thinking of you.

Thank you farfall and sharon. It is awful and so, so sad, but we have had four losses between 5 and 15 weeks before this, and I know how absolutely devastating those have been.
If we had to lose it, I would much rather it happen now. Having said that, I do feel very drained and tearful. So much has been invested this time round, and to have it end this way is very upsetting. I almost can't believe it - I thought that maybe after so much heartache and disappointment things might start going right. We do thank goodness have a ds, who is getting us through it. I don't know what we would do without him.

Thanks again.

chocolate[ I am so sorry to hear of all your losses, so heartbreaking. Have you had any investigations into them? Any immune testing done?

Thanks farfall. We have had investigations into two of our losses - they were both different, but were due to chromosomal abnormalities . I have very low AMH and endo, which I think are the contributing factors. Our hospital refues to do genetic testing on our embryo's, so if this continues to happen I'm thinking of trying somewhere else. There's only so much we can take!

refuses even

I am so sorry to hear that. Where are you in the country? I am not expert but any chance you could go to the clinics where they do preimplantation screening?