Natural miscarriage: when will hpt be negative?

[MoBaby]

Hi ladies. Sadly 2 weeks ago I suffered my fourth loss. I've had 2 chemicals as well and one healthy pregnancy. I've had 2 d/cs prior and my mc In January had very low betas and that pregnancy ended when I started bleeding heavy although dr thought it would be ok.

I did a Fet may 22 and had a positive test may 25. At 15dpo my beta hcg was 609 and 17 dpo it was over 2100. Everything was perfect- the embryo, my uterus and all the blood levels. But at almost 6 weeks I had sudden pain, a gush, a huge clot, then the gestational sac came out. I had an ultrasound earlier that day that showed one baby, growing perfectly, in the right spot. The next day ultrasound confirmed I miscarried and my hcg had already gone to 8150 +. I imagine it was over 12,000 the day the mc started. 8 days later the hcg was 184. Today is 5 days after the 184 and I still have a stron positive hpt. I thought I was ovulating so I took an opk and it was positive so I took the hpt and it was too so the opk isn't accurate.
I stopped bleeding for 5 days then bleed for 9 days straight, 6 heavy. Today I'm spotting.
How long does it take to drop to zero? And when will ovulation happen? I'm ready to move on and decide how to proceed in the future.

 

[jtink28]

so so sorry for your loss

i had a blighted ovum mmc in january - i went for my first ultrasound at 8 weeks only to be told there was only a yolk sac. i miscarried 5 days later, naturally at home. my hpt stayed positive for about 3 weeks - and when it went negative, i got my first AF. i had a very short cycle the cycle after my mc, and i didn't ovulate the first cycle.

every body is different, and your experience might be totally different, but just wanted to pop in and say how sorry i am.

 

[EmpireBiscuit]

With my two natural miscarriages the HPT took around 2.5 weeks to go negative, with my stillbirth I didn't start POAS til later, it was negative by 13 days post delivery.

Sorry for your loss and this is all shit.

 

[MoBaby]

Thank you for your reply. This is all shit. I'm sorry about your losses

This am still positive. So I guess I'll check next weekend when I'm back from vacation. I just don't know when to expect next af.

 

[lilmisscaviar]

So sorry to hear about your loss but I'm wondering the same thing.

I've had two previous losses and then found out a couple weeks ago that I was in for my third. I had to have D&Cs for my first two, one for retained tissue after natural mc and the second because it was a mmc and my body wasn't recognizing the loss. I never had my levels tested with my first so I don't know how high they got before I mc but they went to zero after a week however I didn't have my first period until 6 weeks after the bleeding started. With my mmc my hormones got up to 55,000 before u/s recognized the loss and they came down very slowly. At 4 weeks post D&C my levels were still high enough to get a positive on an hpt. I started my period when my levels were down to 41.

Everyone and every pregnancy loss is different. With my third loss my levels got up to 41,000 last Thursday and I mc naturally on Sunday. I went to the loo, felt a gush, saw red blood and clots in the toilet (didn't see the sac though but the baby only measured 6 weeks so I could have missed it) and knew it was over. The bleeding stopped completely by the next day. I have not had my levels taken since but I have been taking hpts and they are very slowly starting to get lighter. I took an opk however and it was still a very dark positive so I have no idea how I will know when I will ovulate if my levels are still high enough to register on an opk.

 

[EmpireBiscuit]

AF arrived for me about 4 weeks after the MC's began, so I had about 2.5 weeks of bleeding, got a negative HPT about the same time, then AF 1.5 weeks later.

With the first (earliest) loss at 7 weeks, I conceived again the next proper month after first AF. Lost that one too at 9 weeks. After that prevented for a few months, but did monitor and my cycles were a little off, slightly longer.

This time with the stillbith I'm 18 days from delivery now and bleeding slowed to spotting/hardly there. Don't expect to ov this month.