Chemical pregnancy?

[Samantha1571]

So I'm around 5 weeks pregnant and I've got a feeling everything isn't ok. I'm getting intense pains (feels like a period pain) but no bleeding. I know every pregnancy is different but I had severe sickness in 3 of my pregnancies...2 were abortions due to medical reasons, I had a miscarriage before my son and I knew because I was having heavy bleeding and I had severe sickness when I was pregnant with my 22 month old but this pregnancy feels so different. No sickness (I know every pregnancy is different but I just don't feel that is normal for me) I had watery fluid yesterday so it looked liked I peed myself a bit. I'm going to contact my GPs surgery on Monday and ask for a referral to the early pregnancy unit but I'm so anxious. I'm not going to A&E because I'm not bleeding and the pain is bearable (I have heavy periods and really bad period pains so pain like this I'm used too) I'm thinking, could it possibly be a chemical pregnancy? It's so nerve racking and I just wish I could get a scan to see if this is the case

Hi OP.

Sorry you're going through this and feeling understandably anxious.
It's true that every single pregnancy is different and there is no link between more or less severe symptoms and miscarriage.
For example, some ladies go weeks with very severe sickness etc and it turns out they've had a MMC without any indication at all, others never have any sickness and go on to have a very healthy pregnancy and baby.
In my first pregnancy I had no symptoms until 7 weeks then BAM they all hit at once.
Side note - watery discharge is very common by the way.

A scan at this super early stage would be pointless unless you were showing signs of an ectopic and they needed to rule that out. You won't see much at all before 6 weeks (likely just an empty sac) and it can be up to 7 weeks before you can see a fetus and heartbeat. Women who have these 'reassurance' scans before 6 weeks regularly comment that they leave afterwards feeling far less than reassured as they can't tell anything this early. They can't even say if it's viable or not.

The only thing you can do is try and get a scan in a week or two and see if any bleeding starts before then.

Good luck