Hello! I'm new to using any sort of forum and definitely don't have all the pregnancy abbreviations down so please bare with me.
I'd love some feedback, my situation :
Some instinct had me grabbing a test Thursday night, have had Mirena Iud for 3yrs (at least I thought so) but it's been sort of wonky, random periods etc. So I sometimes test to confirm negative. Well this time it didn't. Pretty clear only slightly faded pink lines. Go to Dr Fri am cuz, hello! Iud! They do ultrasound and can't find iud or pregnancy. Tech says lots of gas in there making it difficult (nice!). She shows me uterine wall and said it should be thickening if I were pregnant but let's talk to Dr.
Dr does exam, no Iud. Tell me it is possible to dispel, I say how can I not notice? She says maybe during bowel movement. Ok, on to pregnancy. She says let's get blood work and then repeat u/s, double check that mirena iud is gone, and more blood on Monday. She doesn't seem to be concerned about ectopic but says she'll be honest, she is concerned it's chemical. Her words: not optimistic but hopeful. I see tech in hall later and am crying a little, YES it hit me hard that I WANT this! (despite being 37 with 7yr boy and 3yr twin boys). I tell tech that Dr worries it's chemical and she says, yeah that's what I thought too.
I'm crushed. I start researching on my phone in the car(hubby drivin g) and keep it up all weekend along with testing both with same brand and different brands. All weekend they are as dark as the control line. I learn online that chemical pregnancies don't really put off a lot of hormone and produce faint positive lines. Mine up through this am are very much there! I read that average u/s cannot see pregnancy before 2 weeks 4days fetal age. I figure it's safe to assume I'm very early pregnant and remember that only date that sperms could have met my eggs was Halloween night, cuz yes 2 wks slipped by before we had relations again. Oops. Soooo that means somewhere between 10/31 and 11/15 my egg got fertilized and mosied up to my uterus. Read too that that process can take 2-12 days! So on day 14 after "relations" my u/s doesn't show pregnancy.
Am I correct in thinking that it was simply too early and there is no reason to think chemical pregnancy? And granted they didn't know about the 10/31 being the most likely beginning to this(cuz I hadn't slowed down enough to figure that out yet) but why would they sort of lean towards chemical than simply too early? Is there a significance in the normalcy of uterine wall (even that early) that I am missing?
So very sorry it's so long but I want to put it all out there. I also wish I knew what threshold of hCG number from my results tomorrow put me in normal risk pregnancy range. Cuz they all carry risk. Thanks in advance for reading and writing your opinion!
I'd love some feedback, my situation :
Some instinct had me grabbing a test Thursday night, have had Mirena Iud for 3yrs (at least I thought so) but it's been sort of wonky, random periods etc. So I sometimes test to confirm negative. Well this time it didn't. Pretty clear only slightly faded pink lines. Go to Dr Fri am cuz, hello! Iud! They do ultrasound and can't find iud or pregnancy. Tech says lots of gas in there making it difficult (nice!). She shows me uterine wall and said it should be thickening if I were pregnant but let's talk to Dr.
Dr does exam, no Iud. Tell me it is possible to dispel, I say how can I not notice? She says maybe during bowel movement. Ok, on to pregnancy. She says let's get blood work and then repeat u/s, double check that mirena iud is gone, and more blood on Monday. She doesn't seem to be concerned about ectopic but says she'll be honest, she is concerned it's chemical. Her words: not optimistic but hopeful. I see tech in hall later and am crying a little, YES it hit me hard that I WANT this! (despite being 37 with 7yr boy and 3yr twin boys). I tell tech that Dr worries it's chemical and she says, yeah that's what I thought too.
I'm crushed. I start researching on my phone in the car(hubby drivin g) and keep it up all weekend along with testing both with same brand and different brands. All weekend they are as dark as the control line. I learn online that chemical pregnancies don't really put off a lot of hormone and produce faint positive lines. Mine up through this am are very much there! I read that average u/s cannot see pregnancy before 2 weeks 4days fetal age. I figure it's safe to assume I'm very early pregnant and remember that only date that sperms could have met my eggs was Halloween night, cuz yes 2 wks slipped by before we had relations again. Oops. Soooo that means somewhere between 10/31 and 11/15 my egg got fertilized and mosied up to my uterus. Read too that that process can take 2-12 days! So on day 14 after "relations" my u/s doesn't show pregnancy.
Am I correct in thinking that it was simply too early and there is no reason to think chemical pregnancy? And granted they didn't know about the 10/31 being the most likely beginning to this(cuz I hadn't slowed down enough to figure that out yet) but why would they sort of lean towards chemical than simply too early? Is there a significance in the normalcy of uterine wall (even that early) that I am missing?
So very sorry it's so long but I want to put it all out there. I also wish I knew what threshold of hCG number from my results tomorrow put me in normal risk pregnancy range. Cuz they all carry risk. Thanks in advance for reading and writing your opinion!
