chemical pregnancy

[lillou]

i never understood what this actually meant until this morning and it got me thinking - i was on holiday in july and towards the end of the holiday my partner and i decided we'd do a test and it came back postive, so we did another 2 - all positive!!!

BUT... AF arrived which made me think oh well, dont know what that was about! i know its not relevant now but could it have been a chemical pregnancy or 3 dud tests? here are some pics of them )cos i was excited at the time and took pictures)

so chemical pregnancy or not? and is this a good sign of anything i.e. you are producing eggs or anything??

 

[lillou]

forgot to say lines came up within 3 mnutes on all of them

 

[rhian85]

i dont know if im going to help u here but a couple of months ago i had the same thing happen i think it was a chemical pregancy but the consultant at EPU told me i was probly never even pregnant

i had 8 HPT that i got very faint positives that all came up in 3 mins but they never got any darker - i started getting AF cramps 4 days after AF was due then i started bleeding fearing misscarriage i went to E~PU but test there was negative

so doc said i was never pregnat ???

sorry if im not much help but this is what happend to me just thought id mention it cuz i was woundering if it was a chemical pregnacy or duff tests which i doubt considering i did so many of different brands

im glad i saw this post in away as im hoping we can find some help as to what exactly chemical prgncys are and why they happened ??

anybody able to help ?

again im sorry to hear u have also had this dissapointment its awful isnt it and i know how u feel - PM me if ud like to chat hun

 

[lillou]

aww thanks hun

to be honest, i only started really thinking about it today! i was looking through our holiday photos and saw these again and just kept thinking how much we want to see these lines for real!!

i would love to understand why they appeared or what is really meant by chemical pregnancy as well!

after the disappointment i contacted 2 psychic people on the net who gave me readings as to when i would conceive - one said last month (never happened) and the other said this month (OH is away when i ovulate) so god knows what they meant

if you ever wanna chat as well chick you can PM me, iv got a doc app next week about my AF's as they have been light and short since july so will ask about this too

 

[rhian85]

hey hun,

its nice to have somebody in the same boat that has had a similar experience i will post a few pics of my test if i still have them on comp just so u can see how mine looked

ohh just found them:

here is a few see how faint they were they never got any darker

 

[lillou]

awww hun

i can totally understand how you felt when AF came on then, i was gutted but pushed it aside!

i cant believe your tests were all different brands too, so that rules out them being a bad batch! i have heard that a chemical pregnancy is when the egg is fertilised but doesnt implant properly (correct me if im wrong) or is it that it implants but doesnt meet the sperm

either way it is still a big disappoitment at the end of it! i would say the lines on your tests are not that faint though, thats what i would expect and straight away assume (as i did) that i was pregnanct!

 

[looloo]

Hi there
Just thought I would let you know that the same thing happened to me - I did lots of pregnancy tests, faint lines and five clearblue digitals which all came up pregnant. I went to docs - had blood test etc. 3 days after period due and all of the positives I got AF. Doc says I was very newly preg but ended in very early miscarriage.

Hope you are well and that you get your BFP very soon

LOOLOO x

 

[Flossy82]

I know im not ttc anymore but the same thin also happened to me back in may it was a total shock to begin with and when i got use to the idea it was gone agaon but it was one of things that happened and i cou;dnt have done anything about it but dont let it get you down and never give up hope

 

[rhian85]

i was fairly shocked when we tested and got a faint line as my LO was only about 8months whenit happend but OH was so happy - bless him. i knew instantly three two days after i first tested that something wasnt right as the line was no darker. i would of been 6 weeks when i tested...but i thought back to when i tested when i was pregnat with christopher i was also 6 weeks and got a thick solid blue line within seconds.

so i knew that the thin faint lines were not a good sign i have heard about chemical pregnancies on here but im not sure on why they happan

if the egg gets fertalised then what causes it not to implant ???

will it happen again ?? one thing i have learnt is next time im not goin to test till im ova a week late that way if it happens again i will put it down to late AF rather than suffer the disapointment over agin

 

[Flossy82]

Here's some of mine i took

As you can see there were quite a few

 

[rhian85]

flossy

your clear blue and first response are so like mine identical infact, i havent posted my clear blue as like urs there so faint u can hardly see the line. i also did the clear blue digi tests and they said "pregnat"
cant beleive how similar ur tests are to mine flossy

 

[katyk]

It must be very sad and feel like a miscarriage really emotionally. And of course you were all preg, if used all different brands, no matter what the doc said. Each of the tests is about 99% accurate.

And yes I would say it means your eggs and sperm are working, and you are capable of having a little baby.

So although it's sad now, your day will come

 

[Flossy82]

Yeah my cb digi said "pregnant" aswell to be honest i had never heard of a chemical pregnancy before and i generaly thought at first it was a m/c but thank's to the good people on this forum id found out its a chemical one id actualy had. I still shocs me even now that it happened but ive tried to out it behind best i could and get on with life and enjoy the 2 lo's that i already do have.

 

[katyk]

i have heard that a chemical pregnancy is when the egg is fertilised but doesnt implant properly (correct me if im wrong) or is it that it implants but doesnt meet the sperm

Noo an egg doesn't implant when it's just an egg, it wouldn't make a positve on a test, it just leaves you with your period.

What implants is when the egg meets a sperm and implants as the start of a pregnancy

A chemical pregnancy is just a very early miscarriage as far as I know.

But now you know you can do it

 

[Pinklady85]

Sweetie its impossible to get a wrong positive pregnancy test.. you will only get a positive test or faint positive when you really are pregnant.. i think you are pregnant try going docs and demand a scan from them...also some women bleed through there pregnancy and some even have af through pregnancy

 

[lillou]

i have heard that a chemical pregnancy is when the egg is fertilised but doesnt implant properly (correct me if im wrong) or is it that it implants but doesnt meet the sperm

Noo an egg doesn't implant when it's just an egg, it wouldn't make a positve on a test, it just leaves you with your period.

What implants is when the egg meets a sperm and implants as the start of a pregnancy

A chemical pregnancy is just a very early miscarriage as far as I know.

But now you know you can do it

aw i see, thanks for that katyk that helps me understand it a bit more!

pinklady85 - i have the docs this week about my AF's being weird (light, brown in colour and only last 3 days) so i am going to mention this to him and see what he thinks, iv since done pregnancy tests and they wre clearly negative though!

i like the idea that the chemical pregnancy could mean we can do it though i wont give up

 

[Flick]

I had a chemical pregnancy in May. Had a positive pregnancy test and, was so exited, I rushed to the doctor who gave me a blood test.

The results came back negative but, apparently, I had an inbalance in my hormone levels but this was fixed with a couple of injections and no-body mentioned that fertility would be affected.

As far as I am aware it is a very early mis-carriage.