Boy, what a lucky girl I am! A pelvic exam and a blood draw, all in one day! Other than than, all was just fine for my checkup with the OB/GYN after the ups and downs of last month.
I discovered that, medically, what happened is not actually considered a miscarriage. My doctor said that what likely happened was that an egg was fertilized, and therefore started creating the hormones that would give a positive pregnancy test, but never actually implanted. It’s called a chemical pregnancy.
According to the website I found, it’s apparently pretty common, though most people don’t know it. That’s exactly the thought I kept coming back to: how easily I could have just not known at all. I took the test five or six days after my period “should” have come (though, being off the pill, who knows?). Just imagine if I had waited a few extra days… I would have seen the spotting and then just figured my period was being strange. This is the downside to paying as much attention as I do to these things.
Anyways, not too huge a deal, it seems, and the next time I get a positive test, I’ll be sent in for blood tests to check if hormone levels are as they should be. By the way, I did learn that a normal hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) level by the time you miss your period is around 1000. When the nurse told me the results of my first test showed a level of around 57, I had no idea what that meant. Now I know!
In the meantime, we’re supposed to hold off on the “trying” until I get my next period, presumably to make sure everything has gotten back to normal. Well… we’ll see about that. Not that I *want* to get pregnant this cycle, but… well I’m not committed to *not* getting pregnant this cycle. I’ll let you know how that goes.
Back relatively soon, I hope…
