Jules I thought the same thing, until I did some reading. I've read stories of people who take up to 4 weeks for it to show on a HPT. It took 5 months for the Doc's to agree that my friend was pregnant; after multiple BFN from both HPT and BT she demanded an US and they discovered she was 5 months along.

I've not been on the pill for... 2 years now I think. It really messed around with my moods so I stopped taking it. And I was only on it for about 6 months. I had the usual stresses (tafe work and missing my partner horribly), and I haven't really changed my eating either. I haven't had any huge fluctuations in weight either.

I would have quite happily accepted I wasn't, except that the Doc never gave me any other reason for my really strange bleeding, except to say that in his opinion there was no such thing as a regular period and it's quite normal to skip a period here and there. Considering that for the last 10 years I've had a very regular period (it's normal for me to be up to 5 days late, or rarely I'm early, but once AF starts, it's always the same: Bad cramps and nausea for the first day, really heavy flow for the first 2 and then tapering off for the next 3 days) and that's through the stresses of high school exams, depression, eating issues, stresses of uni, lots and lots of sickness and moving two states in two years.... This is something I've never experienced, which is why I am so worried about it. The Doc that I saw made me feel like I was stupid for questioning his assessment of my health and just really made me feel like I was wasting his time. He didn't ask about any other symptoms I had (which I have experienced) and he seemed embarrassed when I tried to explain the details of my funky bleeding. Not a very good doc!

But thank you, I've been monitoring the bleeding all day, and I don't think it's gotten worse. But it's still really disconcerting to have blood flowing out everytime I go to the loo (there's only slight spots on my pad). There's been a few more clots, but still nothing bigger than a grain of rice. But even so, I ended up changing to appointment with the Doc to tomorrow because I really need to know what's going on!

Thank you Teddy! It really is a scary thing to have your body do something weird! I've had to deal with a lot of different medical issues through my life, but this is definitely the scariest! It's kinda frustrating to have my friends telling me that I should just believe the tests and that it's just some freaky period, when I know that something isn't right. I was trying to explain to my partner how terrifying today's bleeding has been, because even though I have bled every month for the last 10 years, this is completely different!

Seriously, you have no idea how good it is to hear someone else's story! I've been too scared to do any more HPT because I just have this feeling I'm pregnant, and I was scared about getting back more BFN! And even if I turn out to not have been Pregnant in the first place, I do know that something is wrong.

Though I did go back and track my AF for this year and discovered something strange. Until the AF before my funky bleeding, I was pretty much bang on 27-28 days. Then the one before my funky bleeding (so the AF in June) was 32 days. I thought that was weird (it was also inconvienient since the lateness meant that it started the day before my partner arrived for a 10 days visit.... typical! I also go AF THE DAY of his March Out parade, which was the first day I'd seen him in 3 months! AF seriously bad timing!) but I don't know if it has any significance.

But thank you both for your responses! I am feeling a little calmer now than I was earlier (I had a really good cry!) and I know that what is meant to be will be. I'm really trying not to panic, as I am hopeful it may just be breakthrough bleeding, and not a m/c. I'm terrified of doctors, but I know it's the lesser of two evils right now! I'll let you all know how tomorrow goes!