I thought for sure I was pregnant. I had been getting all of the early signs, but waited it out until my period was supposed to start. Well, my period (or so I thought it was) came a few days late, but it wasn't like a normal period. The blood that was expelled was a dark brown, which later turned to a burghandy color. I had some intense cramping last night, and this morning, when I woke up, I noticed I had some tissue on the pad, in a clump about the size of a quarter. It was hard and white, and I was able to rip it in half. I didn't know what it was, and threw it away. When I cleaned myself off after urinating, I noticed more clumps on the toilet paper. They didn't look like blood-cots.
Could I have expelled tissue from a developing fetus? If I were pregnant, I would only be a few weeks along. I've never had a miscarriage before, but I don't know what the tissue could have been. Any ideas?
Well, it could be... about 1/4 of pregnancies end in miscarriage, often without the woman even knowing that she's pregnant. It happened to me - I had a very, very strong period that was much heavier than ever before and would not stop. I normally have very light, 3 day periods. About three years ago, I had a period where I needed to change tampons every hour, and it lasted over a week before I went to see my doctor. I ended up needing a d&C to stop the bleeding, and when they tested the tissue, they found out I had been pregnant. I had had no idea. Even though I was kind of relieved that I wasn't pregnant, and not ready to be at all, I ended up being very depressed for a few weeks afterwards. There are two possibilities in your case - you could have been pregnant and had a miscarriage or you could just be paying more attention to what's going on down there because you thought you were pregnant. Have you tried taking a pregnancy test? It may still come back positive the first day or so, if you had enough hcg in your system.
[There are two possibilities in your case - you could have been pregnant and had a miscarriage or you could just be paying more attention to what's going on down there because you thought you were pregnant. Have you tried taking a pregnancy test? It may still come back positive the first day or so, if you had enough hcg in your system.[/QUOTE]
Well, about two weeks ago, I started to suspect that I may be pregnant, but took one of those cheap OTC pregancy tests, and it read NEGATIVE. I didn't think anything of it until I started the heavy cramping and saw the tissue in my period blood. I've heard that the cheap tests aren't very reliable, but didn't think I was pregant anyway, since I started my period. But like I said, it hasn't been a "normal" period. Also, I forgot to mention, that up until now, I've had a lot of nausea and vomiting. Last night, around the time of the cramping, I started vomiting a lot, and couldn't figure out the reason why. I was just thinking that maybe my body was rejecting the fetus, but I can't seem to figure out if I was ever pregnant in the first place! Am I making any sense?
Well, I would recommend that if your bleeding doesn't stop within a couple of days, you see your doctor. The pregnancy tests you buy at the store are actually very accurate - but they detect different levels of hcg. Some of the cheaper ones are actually some of the more sensitive ones. If you go to the doctor, the blood test would be even more sensitive. But I guess it all depends on why you need to know (I don't mean that in an insensitive way). If you are trying to get pregnant, you may want to go to your doctor to find out what the problem is. If not, you might want to just ride it out unless the bleeding doesn't stop. Nausea and vomitting shouldn't be happening if you are so early in your pregnancy that the tests are negative, so there might be something else going on. Sorry you're going through this.
Hi there, I was going through the same symptons as you have gone through just a few weeks ago. I thought I had miscarriaged and went to a doctor. He told me that I had lost the baby at 10 days. I was devasted, and told my boyfriend who was even more so, since he loves children so much. It almost broke up our relationship because we were both so depressed over it, until I went to another doctor a few days later, and he took a blood test to check my hormone levels. Turned out I was NOT pregnant but that it was my broken hymen passing through. (I was a virgin until I met my boyfriend) The moral to this story, please go see a doctor and then another one and have a blood test done to find out if you really were pregnant or not, because the emotional stress of thinking you were pregnant when your not and morning a non-existing baby hurts more than anything.!
I wish you all the best of luck and please keep us posting with an update.
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