Link between how early you get a BFP and your chances of chemical pregnancy?

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Hi Everyone:

For my blighted ovum I got my first BFP at 14 dpo and it was very faint (miscarried naturally at 12 weeks, never saw a heartbeat).
For my chemical pregnancy I got my first BFP at 17-18 dpo and it was faint (started spotting 4 days later).

Now I got a BFP at 10 dpo with a line that showed up right away and has been getting stronger since.

Should I be more hopeful that this pregnancy will work out ok because I got a BFP earlier???

Thanks for your help!

 

[keepholdingon]

I'm pretty sure there isn't a direct correlation between how early you test and your chances of a chemical.

A lot of pregnancies fail to develop because of chromosomal abnormalities or something just not going right. That means if you conceive and test positive 12 days later or if you conceive and test positive 20 days later. I think the misconception is that when you test early, you are more likely to have a chemical. That's not necessarily true. With FRER, I thin those are supposed to be 15 or 25 ml sensitivity. They've been found to detect 6 ml as well on test samples. Some internet strips are very sensitive and you can show up earlier on there. The earlier you test, it means there is just more time between your positive and when AF is going to come where you are aware you are pregnant. If you wait to test, nature may have already taken it's course and you wouldn't even know you had a chemical. It has nothing to do with when you tested positive.

With more sensitive strips, people are finding out earlier and it seems as if chemicals may be on the rise, but that's not necessarily true. It just has to do with how fast we are able to find out and if nature is going to take its course either way.

I hope that makes sense because I just had a wave of fatigue and I feel like I just wrote a bunch of gibberish.

 

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Found some scientific info that maybe gives me hope that the early you detect pregnancy (because egg implants earlier), the higher chance it will last!

Time of Implantation of the Conceptus and Loss of Pregnancy
Allen J. Wilcox, M.D., Ph.D., Donna Day Baird, Ph.D., and Clarice R. Weinberg, Ph.D.
N Engl J Med 1999; 340:1796-1799June 10, 1999

"In most successful human pregnancies, the conceptus implants 8 to 10 days after ovulation. The risk of early pregnancy loss increases with later implantation."

 

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Found some scientific info that maybe gives me hope that the early you detect pregnancy (because egg implants earlier), the higher chance it will last!

Time of Implantation of the Conceptus and Loss of Pregnancy
Allen J. Wilcox, M.D., Ph.D., Donna Day Baird, Ph.D., and Clarice R. Weinberg, Ph.D.
N Engl J Med 1999; 340:1796-1799June 10, 1999

"In most successful human pregnancies, the conceptus implants 8 to 10 days after ovulation. The risk of early pregnancy loss increases with later implantation."

More from the article . . .
"Among the 102 conceptuses that implanted by the ninth day, 13 percent ended in early loss. This proportion rose to 26 percent with implantation on day 10, to 52 percent on day 11, and to 82 percent after day 11."

 

[keepholdingon]

Found some scientific info that maybe gives me hope that the early you detect pregnancy (because egg implants earlier), the higher chance it will last!

Time of Implantation of the Conceptus and Loss of Pregnancy
Allen J. Wilcox, M.D., Ph.D., Donna Day Baird, Ph.D., and Clarice R. Weinberg, Ph.D.
N Engl J Med 1999; 340:1796-1799June 10, 1999

"In most successful human pregnancies, the conceptus implants 8 to 10 days after ovulation. The risk of early pregnancy loss increases with later implantation."

This is true because the time between ovulation and is called the luteal phase. In most women, it's around 14 days but is recommend to be at least 10. If your egg implants later, the process of AF arriving starts and there isn't enough time for egg to implant properly.

With your original question though, a positive early does not necessarily mean you are going to or not going to have a chemical. It's going to happen either way, you just may be aware you're having one or unaware of it.