Bleeding, cramps and clot at 5w 2days

[NatalieS91]

Hi all,
I’m new here. Just looking for advice as I’m confused right now. 2 years ago I misscarried at 6 weeks. I lost a substantial amount of blood, clots, severe cramping and all in all bled for around 2 weeks. My HCG levels dropped dramatically during this and when I had an early scan (internal) it showed there was nothing there but blood... fast forward to now and I am 5w 2days pregnant. 2 days ago I started cramping only slightly and yesterday I began spotting brown blood, only when I wiped nothing went onto the sanitary towel. Today I woke up around 8:30am with severe andominal cramps and back pain, I went to the toilet and when I wiped there was bright red blood with a dark red clot the size of my thumb nail on the tissue. I presumed I was misacarrying again and the clot I lost was the embryo. The pain eased off almost immediately after passing that clot and the bleeding eased off to. For the rest of the day I have had light spotting, a little dark blood in the sanitary towel but nothing substantial and not enough to fill the pad. After that there is no more blood on the towel and only slight pink on the tissue when I wipe or sometimes brown on the tissue. The same night (now) there is next to nothing when I wipe. I’m convinced I’m misacarrying/misscarried but I’m confused as I no longer have the cramps and no heavy bleeding like the last miscarriage I had. I was worried that maybe the misscarriage wasn’t happening as it should due to the fact that the cramps only lasted a couple of hours and the blessing has eased off already so I went to EPU, the pregnancy test they did was positive but a weak positive they said. The Dr examined my cervix and said it looks healthy and it is closed. She said I may not have misscarried, she doesn’t know if I have or haven’t. She said there’s no need to take my bloods to check my HCG levels and has booked me in for a scan on Wednesday when I should be 6 weeks. What is going on? I Convinced myself I was going through a miscarriage, I even had a cry about it. The only reason I went to EPU was because I was worried the blood from my miscarriage wasn’t coming out as it should and was scared of infections such as sepsis etc. Now I’m being told I may not have misscarried. Has anybody else experienced anything like this?

Also, forgot to mention! Day 1 of the spotting I thought I was misacarrying so decided to do another clear blue digital HPT. I did one a day before my missed period which said pregnant (1-2). When I did the pregnancy test at day 1 of the spotting it should have given me a result of pregnant (2-3) or pregnant (3+) as I would have been 5 weeks 1day pregnant on that day however, it still said pregnant (1-2) which is the same result I got 10 days ago. Immediately I thought I’m either misacarrying and that is why my HCG hasn’t increased or maybe an ectopic because the result was the same. I did some cheap tests too and the line was fainter than the ones I did previously. The day after this second clear blue test is when I lost the clot and had severe cramps. Tonight, around 2 hours ago I did another cheap pregnancy test and the line looks as though it is getting darker again. This is all confusing me. All I keep thinking is am I? Or aren’t I misacarrying? Possible ectopic?

I had something similar early this week at 5 weeks. Was convinced it was a miscarriage. GP was worried it was ectopic so I had an early scan, all looks fine. Booked in for another scan at 7 weeks to check progress. I know it's hard but try not to worry, all could be fine. I've resisted retesting so far as I know that would drive me potty, scan will tell us more.

Thankyou for your reply Pantygirdl. It’s comforting to hear that everything seems fine with your pregnancy so far. I’m convinced I misscarried so I am trying to not get my hopes up. I am just going to rest now until my scan on Wednesday. 🤞🏻For both of us at our next scans x

Hello Natalie, did you miscarry? I’ve literally just gone through the same thing today.