Faint BFP not getting darker at 4wk 1d?

Hey everyone.

I just wanted some ideas or opinions as I'm getting a little anxious here.

My last pregnancy was twins which i both miscarried and had an ectopic. i lost my right tube as a result. That was in July 2009. I'm now at about 15DPO, hard core pregnancy symptoms since 1DPO (which is normal for me when i'm pregnant), vomiting like crazy, in fact I can't even keep water down!! But my concern is that I have had a ton of very faint BFP's... definate positives, but still faint. And Even though i've left it 3 days to POAS again, the BFP seems to be still just as faint.

My symptoms are so strong, nothing like the ectopic - more like my first 2 pregnancies (one I lost in a car accident, and the 2nd resulted in live birth to my daughter now 3 1/2). But I'm very anxious about the BFP not getting darker... I can't even get an appointment with any doctor at all right now as they all seem to be completely booked out.. although my usual doctor can probably see me at the end of the week.. I think that will be my earliest possible appointment.

So until I can get BTs and an U/S done, can anyone please ease my angst?? Has anyone experienced anything similar?? I guess my concern is that it may be another ectopic, although i haven't had any ectopic pains or drops in blood pressure like last time.

According to my charting, I should be in my 5th week (4wk 1day). So confusing.. I normally show a clear BFP on the actual day of conception!!

Hi Ciara
Firstly, I am sorry for your losses. Miscarriage is awful thing to go through :comfort:
I think HPT are quite accurate - a line is a line, positive! If you are worries definately get bloods done. Urine is not the best indicator of HCG. It can also vary depending on your fluid intake. For exmaple, in the past perhaps you didn't drink as much on the day etc. It has been hot so your fluid intake is most likely higher etc. There are many factors. I think it sounds positive - you have other symptoms too. It is so hard when you just need to know! BT will save your sanity - I wish you all the very best!
Also, with DS I never really got a heaps dark HPT. Definately not as strong as control line - quite faint and thin - yet here we have a healthy little boy ;)
Goodluck hun :hug:
Rach xx

Do you have any symptoms? I have also been worried because I got my BFP on many different tests but they arent super dark. They have gotten darker over the past couple of days though. I think different batches of tests and how much liquid you drank ect comes into account. Im not overly worried right now because I have a dull pain in my uterus and boobs are tingling on and off and are sore to touch.

You should see a doctor asap to ease your mind.

Thanks so much for the replies.

Rach, You're right with the weather being hot lately... I guess that could be part of it. And it's very reassuring to know that you also had only faint lines with your Son. Perhaps this pregnancy is a boy??

Msadelaide, thanks for your response also. Yes I've had every symptom under the son!! LOL! I've even named my bucket Mr. Pinky as it seems to go with me everywhere! (TMI, sorry). Good luck with your pregnancy!

I am hoping to get an urgent appointment with my doctor tomorrow, but they're all soo busy at this time of year! GRRR!!

You're welcome hun - I was just going to add that all pregnancies are different. So even if you had quite a high level of HCG detected in past pregnancies doesn't mean this pregnancy will have the same HCG level. Just a though - I bet it will be just fine :hug:
Rach xx

You're right Rach, thanks for putting my mind at ease.

I don't feel like anything is wrong... I guess I'm just being a bit hormonal. I'm just so worried that this will end in a loss again... and it was just so hard for me last time. It really helps knowing that I'm not alone in what i'm experiencing. U/S and BT even though i know my dates, so I'm just trying to stay positive and wait to see that little heart beat on the U/S.

Fingers crossed til then.

xx

Can you call your hospitals early pregnancy unit or clinic? Usually they are more then happy to order you some early blood tests to check your HCG is doubling and an early scan seeing as you have had one ectopic and tube removal in the past. Usually a midwife does this. Our hospital has this service and I would say going on your history they would be more then happy to give you a referral. I am sure everything is ok but if you get a referral for BHCG you wont have to wait as long as the end of the week. Your symptoms sound promising of a healthy pregnancy. It is normal to be concerned even without having had pregnancy losses before. Goodluck. I hope the next few weeks speed up and you get to see a healthy baby with a strong HB.

I have been told my a Dr the darkness of the lines usualy just means there is a lot of little ink in it. I wouldn't owrry in the slightest that the line isn't getting darker. Mine didn't get darker for a while and I am into a very healthy pregnancy.

I can completely understand your worry, but just sit back and enjoy being preg again. Take care of yourself and a HUGE congrats to you!!!

Hey guys,

I'm sitting here in tears, so overwhelmed by the support!! LOL, thanks so much for your responses.

Emmy - that's very informative. I didn't know that they had anything like that at the hospital. I rang around and found a 24hr medical centre and although they were booked out, I told the nurse about my previous ectopic and she was great. She got me in at 7am this morning. So I've just had some bloods taken. The ultra sound isn't going to show anything for a few more weeks so I have to rely on blood work for now. will have results of the first quantitative test in 2 days, then i'll most probably need another. The doctor there also suggested the emergency room for anything as they'll triage me high priority due to my ectopic history. Your message was so beautiful, i really needed to hear that. thanks.

Pish, thank you and congrats to you also!!! You're probably right about the ink part too. I decided to ease my mind that I would try a different test just to be sure. I have been using forelife and first response and getting faint lines... so i bought a clearblue this morning and their lines are blue unlike the others which are pink.. so it looked a little darker to me. Perhaps they're more sensitive though? And you are so right Pish, I should be happy not worried! Its just a little easier said than done! haha.

Either way.. my blood work should give me some answers... I just wish it could happen faster!! LOL.

~ happy and healthy baby dust all round ~

ciara!

CONGRATULATIONS BABE!!!

hope the BT puts your mind at ease, i have found the clearblue to be nicer to use than the FR...but that's just me...i find the pink like too hard to decipher...at least blue knows what it is doing lol!

I know it's impossible not to worry ciara.e, so big :hug: ..but love it is so early still..Try and hang in there and just enjoy the fact that you are starting to grow a little miracle!

I completely understand it is easier said than done, I hope the BT does put your mind at ease... Kick the Dr up the bum and tell him to put it urgent! :)


Thinking of you. Keep us up to date with the great news! :D

Thanks guys
Cassius, so glad u agree about the test colour! haha... pink on white just isn't as definate as blue on white haha.

Lee , Pish... thanks! You guys are starting to make me feel a little excited! And Pish, you know i didn't have him mark it urgent on the BT... completely forgot that part! I might give them a call now. Either way i guess it doesn't matter if its a one day wait or a ten day wait haha.. it's all going to feel like ten years!! haha.

So i guess this whole TWW is more like a 3 month wait isn't it? lol.

Feeling pretty good about this one now.. Thanks everyone!!

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Its all got to do with how well the protein sticks to the ink on the test. A faint positive is just as good as a dark positive. I'm around the same gestation as you, and am still getting faint positives on 10miu tests. Slightly getting darker, but they are still faint.

Congratulations on your pregnancy! :D

:hug: oh sweety youve had a ruff trot there so im wishing you all the very best and i agree a line is a line maybe try a didital one there a bit more expensive but maybe worth a shot ( but haven already used 2 different brands i think its safe to say your pregnant woohoo ). good luck and a huge congrats i hope this bubba is a real keeper as by the sounds you truely deserve it .

Babyface - CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALSO!!! Its crazy with this faint positive stuff hey? LOL... i'm becoming a POAS addict!! lol.
Smithy - thanks so much. I didn't realise how common miscarriage and ectopic pregnancies are until i joined this forum :cry: I always say that we're only given what the universe or the Lord knows we can handle.. but i don't know sometimes... and then this happens.. a new life seems to just make up for all the heartache in the past doesn't it? It's like you struggle to climb a mountain barefoot but when u get to the top, the view is breathtaking. I hope this time I'm at the top of my mountain.

Cassius, Pish, Babyface, Smithy, Lee, Emmy, Rach, msadelaide.... thank you all sooo much!! And good luck on your baby journeys also!!!

I decided to think to myself that it must be a boy as boys are meant to take a little longer to swim to the egg... so the hcg levels probably wouldn't be as high for them right?? Well that's what i'm going to believe until my test results come through haha

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I decided to think to myself that it must be a boy as boys are meant to take a little longer to swim to the egg

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Actually its the girls that swim slower, but they live longer. Boy sperm swim faster and die quicker.

You would be due in July right? You should come over to the Due in July Belly Buddies :)

(P.S Its BabyFace, I just had a name change since I posted here last lol)

BabyDesigner, I love the name change. As for the male/female sperm... I had no idea! I knew it was something along those lines haha. Well I'll consider it a girl haha... that's even more exciting for me cos I love all the little pink baby things!!

And yes, July 31st would be my due date. Yay!!! I will come over and join you now! Thanks!!!

Just popping in to say that i'll be getting my BT results tonight at 830pm. it's the only appointment i could get grr.
Will pop in a post to let you all know what the results are... but i feel pretty confident now, thanks to all your support.
xx

Hey there!

Congrats!:dance:

My BFP was also very faint at 4w1d and I'm still PG at 8w1d...there is hope as a positive is a positive regardless of how dark the line is...Good luck :D

good luck chicky cant wait to hear the results:D

Hey guys
I don't know what to say.
I'm absolutely devastated. i took a urine test at the doctors, on top of the hundreds it feels like i've taken at home... and again, it's positive. But the blood work came back with HCG at just 2 which means definately not pregnant. I posted a new post about it in the same forum as this, so feel free to read it.. i've posted in that more information.. i'm just too devastated right now to go into it all. He's told me to wait 4 WEEKS!!! and then get my bloods done again. 4 WEEKS!!
Thanks everyone for your support.. i'm just so lost now. I still feel pregnant.. in everyway... the urine is still saying BFP... on EVERY type of test that i have taken in the past few days (i think i've done about 4 different types).

Oh well. Thanks for your support, it means a lot.
Better luck to all of you lovely ladies

ciara.e did he read another result from months/years ago perhaps? If your urine test is a BFP then your blood test should show it. I'd be inclined to think he has mixed it up or they have mixed your blood up (although thats near impossible) perhaps they haven't come back yet and he has told you a different times BHCG. Anyhow I am so sorry you are going through this. 4weeks is ridiculous especially going on your history if your urine test is positive. Can you see another Dr?

Hey Emmy & everyone else!

Yeah i'm hoping he read the wrong blood test results. not too sure though. I still feel so pregnant and even today i'm so bloated!! Still pretty up there with morning sickness too. Strange hey?

So i know the doc said to wait 4 weeks, but of all the research i have done, I'm lead to believe that with a chemical pregnancy you should expect to bleed (period, i guess) within days of your expected period date. Well I'm WAAAAY past that. In fact, it's been a week since my bloods were taken and I was already late then. So this is what i did.. silly me, cos it's made me even more confused and anxious..
I left it for this week and just tonight i bought a different hpt, crystal clear. I haven't used that brand.. I have used every other brand available!! haha, but not this one. so my pee was very diluted with this hot weather etc.. and guess what it said?? BFP!

So now i'm back to the land of confusion and i decided that i'm not going to take any notice of what that last doc told me. He made me feel like an idiot anyway.. which i'm certainly not! So I'm going to take myself to a different doc within the next week or so.. when i get my next free day (cos i'm fully booked up with work and moving house).

So either i'm pregnant, or this miscarriage is taking a hell of a long time to complete. Has anyone else taken this long to get their period with a chemical pregnancy??? I mean, it's something like 10 or 11 days late (my ttc diary is packed in a box so i can't tell u the exact day)

I have taken up to 6 weeks when I had my 3 early losses... They varied in time but generally I was between 5 & 6 weeks.

As I have said before you really do need to get some more bloods done - it's important for you to know. :hug:

I had a chemical pregnancy last week and started to bleed at 4 weeks 5 days.

Good luck hun, i hope you find a good doctor who gives you some answers soon.

How are you going darl?

See a different doctor and get a referral for an u/s darl, you should be able to see the sac and a faint heartbeat by now, so that should clear some things up.

It took me a week to start bleeding after losing my second angel at 5 1/2 weeks, and two weeks to start bleeding after losing the third angel at 8 weeks.

With the second angel, I had pos preg tests (about 8 of them) and a neg blood test the day before the u/s. The u/s showed a sac, but no heart beat. With the third angel, 10 pos preg tests and 2 pos blood tests, each one with lower levels than the last, and the 1st ultrasound showed a very slow heartbeat.

Is it also possible that you miscalculated the date of conception? With DS, I had 3 pos preg tests and a blood test with a hcg level of 5 when af was 3 days overdue, and I didn't get the implantation bleed until the day after the first pos preg test (also when af was three days overdue), so don't start worrying yet darl, could just be nothing, or your kidney's are just working extremely well and getting rid of all the hcg from your system really really really quickly :)

Sending sticky vibes your way and my fingers are crossed for you!

hey guys.

thanks so much for sharing your stories. It means a lot to me.

Well I'm hoping I did get the dates wrong?? Dunno... I'm defintaley still feeling waay pregnant!

So i took all your advice and finally went and sought second opinion. The new doc has sent me for an u/s which is booked for next monday. He's not worried at all... I'm kinda looking 3months pregnant already lol, and it's noticeable on my small frame!

I'm not getting excited, but i'm trying not to get too down either at the moment.. just a week to go and i'll know one way or the other.

anywho...just letting you all know!

Hope everyone is doing fantastic!!

I have been thinking of you, I really hope the u/s goes well:pray:

:pray: it goes well. :hug:

I hope it all goes Ciara, I'll be praying for a sticky bubba for you :)

hey ladies,

here's just what i wrote on my other post:-

just letting you all know that i had my scan done this morning. The sonographer was lovely. Looks like blighted ovum... so i guess I just wait to start bleeding? she's a little puzzled that i haven't started to bleed yet so she's asked for me to have some bloods taken again over a few days and return for another scan if i don't start bleeding soon. She said there's a small mass of something in my uterus but she can't confirm that it's a foetus or sac as its too small. There's still a chance that it's not so gloomy... but at this stage it appears to be a loss.

Thanks for all the support and help! It's helped me so much. I'm kinda a bit in shock but it would have been worse if I didn't have you guys to get me through it!

Still got the vomiting and sore boobs, but i guess that will all go away once I start to bleed?? I dunno.

.... I am kinda feeling a little sad about it all now, which i thought i'd have skipped over as I kinda tried to prepare myself for it... but it's not as easy as that i guess. I watched my DP swallow his heart when i told him (as they didn't let him come into the room for the scan). Now he's just gone off to training and left me here when I kinda feel like I need him around me. :(

I'll get passed it i'm sure. Thanks for all the help!