Looks positive to me doll..sorry to point the obvious. X
Thank you hun, know what you mean, is what it is!!
Hi Aleeah - firstly, sorry for your losses. I've had two mmcs, both at about 6 weeks - neither passed naturally. I had an ERPC 6 weeks ago today to remove the last of my 'retained products' from pregnancy - brief history
LMP 1st May
Scan - mid June - looked like blighted ovum, embryo later found, measuring 5w6d
Cytotec - twice, late July, early August
ERPC 27th August
I've been testing every four to five days since my ERPC, and have had positive tests all along. I think they're getting fainter, but I'm not completely sure that I'm not making it up. I'm charting as well, and think I might have ovulated two weeks ago, so I'm hoping for AF any day now.
Saying all that, last time (Dec 12) I had a negative test two weeks after D&C and light AF at four weeks.......
Really, there are three possibilities here
1. The test might be faulty. Most of the packages say that if you get the test line and not control line, it's a test error. You do have both, but it's unusual for the control line to be so much lighter (from what I can see in your picture, and from my limited experience - I'm by no means an expert).
2. You may still have HCG from your miscarried pregnancy - this could be a naturally slow decline in levels (there's lots written about differences in how people process remaining HCG) or could be from something they missed.
3. You could have ovulated two weeks after your d&c and might be pregnant again.
If I were you, I'd get another test and try again in the morning, see if the results are clearer.
Then I'd contact your doctor, and request either HCG levels to be taken to see if they're going up or down, or get referred for a scan.
Good luck!!
1. So I went out about brought another FRER and that too was pretty much the same as yesterdays, if not a bit darker still, used FMU this time though. So I guess that rules out the test being faulty, although this is totally what I believed initially too.
2. I think this is the likely cause personally. I'm not willing or ready to believe this is a new pregnancy, we do fall pregnant really easily but that's because I can feel ovulation pains before and during, I haven't had any since the D&C, so don't believe I've ovulated yet. I guess it's a possibility my HCG would have been very high with the last pregnancy as it was twins, so naturally will take longer to come down.
3. I can't even entertain this. My head's so shot already. I fell pregnant first month of trying in March, then had a natural miscarriage in May then got another BFP (with twins) with no period inbetween and miscarried and had the D&C in August. So I've had no actual periods since March this year and feel like I've either been pregnant or thought I was pregnant for the whole time too!!
What a messed up world the world of TTC is!!!
Well, I agree with boodley on the possibilities.
It could be leftover HCG but it looks like it would be a very high amount. That's what my test looked like one time when I took a FRER becasue I thought I couldn't possibly be more than barely pregnant and i was farther along, the test line was super dark and the control line was very faint. It was because there was so much HCG in my urine that the test line grabbed all the dye and the control line barely had any.
I have heard of women who had high levels of residual HCG for a long time though. I would probably go in for a blood draw if it were me.
Thank you for your reply. You're right of course, I think I'll push for a blood test today and see what comes back. My HCG 4 and half weeks ago was at 106 and then 3 days later was at 45.6, so we just assumed it would be down to zero in 4 weeks but having looked online now, that's not always the case.
Hi Hun, I hope it is a real positive but sometimes tests can be so cruel when it's just left over hcg...
Can you get a hcg beta done at your local Gp? X
I know it's all so cruel, I was sobbing so hard last night, hubby asked me why I was upset because I could be pregnant again and that's good right? I had to explain to him I didn't want to be pregnant, I wanted a negative test and my period, so I could have a clean start... it all seems cruel. I can't possibly conceive until this HCG is out of my system and it seems to not want to leave
I'll keep you all posted of course, I hate it when people don't finish a thread with a conclusion!!
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I'd agree with dairymomma - be sure to check if there's anything you can be doing now to help things along. Otherwise, try to relax, take it for the miracle that it is, and wait and see how things go. 
