COULD I HAVE BEEN PREGNANT

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Registered: 07-04-2006
COULD I HAVE BEEN PREGNANT
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Tue, 07-04-2006 - 9:06pm
I am hoping someone can give me some answers because I am really consfused. Okay, so I took an at home pregnancy test on June 24th and it came out positive. I then took another one on June 27th, positive again. And just to be sure I went to a local clinic and they performed a urine pregnancy test too and it came out positive. I know the conception date would have been June 10th, so I knew I was early. On July 1st I had been having severe cramping for a few days and then I started bleeding so I went to the emergency room and I got the shock of a lifetime. They took a blood pregnancy test and my HCG was only a 4 and he said that what I was experience was probably a period not a miscarriage and that I was probably never pregnant. I am confused because not one but three urine tests came out positive. I truly believe I may have been pregnant. Does anyone know any causes for this?
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Registered: 08-27-2004
Tue, 07-04-2006 - 9:57pm

Hi,


It does sound like you were, just for a short time. It's what's called a chemical pregnancy. Because they come and go so quickly, ya miss them mostly unless your testing early.

Monica

It's...TWINS!

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Registered: 03-07-2005
Wed, 07-05-2006 - 2:21pm
I can not tell you what happen but March 1 year ago the exact same thing happened to me! I took three different pg test and all where BFP!!! And I have been pg 3 times so I knew what it felt like to be pg. I went ot the hospital for the same reson you did and they told me the same thing. I was like I took 3 pg test two different brands, how could they all be wrong! I know that I was pg and sure you were too ER doctors are not trained in OB so I am sure there is a better explantation you could get from your OB. Good Luck and sorry about your lost! Rebecca
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Registered: 07-04-2006
Thu, 07-06-2006 - 8:31am
Thank you so much for your reply. It's truly sad, but I am glad to hear that there are others out there in my same situation. I am astonished at how many women this has happened to. The doctor in the ER said he could explain to me why I would have 3 positive urine tests, but that he was not an OBGYN doc. I spoke with a nurse at my OBGYN's office and she says that it sounds like I was pregnant and possibly miscarried early. I am going back today to take a blood test, just to be sure that my HCG levels are back down to 0. We'll see Friday about those test results and I will speak with my OBGYN. It was just devistating because I had been on the DEPO shot (biggest mistake of my life!) for several years. I got off of the shot in January of 2005. I didn't start having periods until March of 2006 again and the were really irregular (every 10-14 days)and short(1 day). I had been upset recently because I thought that I would never be regular again to get pregnant so when I got three positive results I was so excited. I too have been pregnant before (my daughter is 5) and know what it is like. It wasn't like we were trying and so I just started making myself believe that I was pregnant with the symptoms. I was having symptoms, weird smells, nausea, fatigue, swollen sore breasts and that is why I took the tests. The symptoms were real the results were real, but the pregnancy was not. I don't by that at all. So, we'll see what my OBGYN has to say today.
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Registered: 06-30-2006
Thu, 07-06-2006 - 10:23am

Hi, I agree w/what you're saying and am interested in hearing what your OBGYN tells you. I had something similar happen to me in May of last year. Having been pg before (my daughter is 8 now), I knew what it felt like to be pregnant. I was not trying then either so I know I didn't imagine all the exhaustedness and fire shooting nipples. Anyway, my period ran late a few days too and then light for a day and by the the time I got a bloodtest was told I never was pregnant and the OBGYN looked at me like I had 3 heads.

I unfortunately am having some strange issues again and now am in the same boat, pg tests say negative, guts and boobs say otherwise. Extremely weird period. I have an appt on Monday but don't expect to ever figure out what the problem is.

Good luck to you. I feel for you as I understand what you're going thru. I've given up talking to anyone about it as they look at me like I'm looking for something that's not there and I don't honestly necessarily want to be pregnant. If it happens my husband and I are happy w/it and it is a blessing. If not, we're not out there trying to make it happen. But something is definitely going on and the more that I read online it seems we get pregnant more than we know (or Dr's are willing to admit) and they "fall off" somewhere along the way, for lack of a better term. For whatever reason I don't understand why the Dr's won't just acknowledge this as I think more women would understand it and accept it instead of feeling confused and a loss.

Keep us posted.
Kelly