I really need some advice right now!! I had a missed miscarriage at 9.5 weeks and baby had stopped growing at 7 weeks. I am now 4.5 weeks past the d&c and got this this afternoon! Could it possibly be leftover hcg from before?? I am trying not to get excited yet!
Hi there,
So I have a fairly horrible history with miscarriages. These are 2 examples from them:
A Natural Miscarriage
So I had a natural miscarriage a few years back, I was 9 weeks pregnant but the baby had stopped growing at 8 weeks. It took around 7 weeks for me to ovulate again. I was getting very faint positive results (squinters) for weeks and weeks. I fell pregnant again but sadly miscarried.
D&C
I lost a twin pregnancy in August 2013, I too had a D&C last week of August. They told me to do a pregnancy test 3 weeks after the D&C to confirm there was nothing left. I forgot and tested around 5 weeks later. Like you I got a strong result and totally believed they'd left something behind. We had been using contraception. I had a scan at 5 weeks to see if my uterus shape was the reason why I kept miscarrying and there was a 5 week old bubba. So I must've conceived literally as soon as I'd stopped bleeding from the D&C. That little bubba turned into my perfect little girl who's now 2 1/2.
I can only speak from my experience, like you I posted on here too and totally did not think I was pregnant. As soon as I showed the doctor a FRER that looked like yours she said Congratulations!
When it took 7 weeks for my hormones to drop it was following a natural miscarriage, also the FRERs I got positives with were ridiculously faint, my husband couldn't even see the lines, so totally nothing like your test here.
My advice is go to the doctors and either get an early scan or bloods taken. With the faint positives my HCG was around 120. With the pregnancy my HCG was WAY higher.
If you have any questions, please ask. I know what it's like going through this and it still brings tears to my eyes that my little rainbow came after such a horrible storm, I've got everything crossed this is your rainbow too
xxxxx