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Q: What Happens During a Miscarrage?
asked by: pitterpatter on September 4th, 2004
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I was just curious, how do you know when you are having a miscarrage? Do you always bleed? Also do you loose symptoms before you have one?
I'm just thinking it would be nice to know the warning signs if I were to miscarry.
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silverlou
replied on September 4th, 2004
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I think it really depends on the individual pregnancy. You don't always bleed right away. I have a friend who was pregnant for 13 weeks before she had spotting and from the ultrasound the doctor said the baby hadn't lived past 8 or 9 weeks. I have also read that if your pregnancy symptoms seem to disappear, it can mean that you've miscarried, but it is incomplete, because there is no bleeding. In my case i'm having a really early miscarriage, I was only 5 days late when I started bleeding and my symptoms, enlarged breasts, bloating, morning sickness, didn't go away until the first day of spotting.
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pitterpatter
replied on September 4th, 2004
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Did your symptoms get worse before they went away?
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silverlou
replied on September 6th, 2004
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My symptoms were strong all day wednesday and through the night on wednesday, then I found spotting thursday morning when I woke up. During the day on thursday I was still bloated and breasts were still sore. No real morning sickness, I just felt sick in general, i'd been up on and off during the night crying, not much sleep and still really emotional in the morning. By afternoon was feeling emotionally better and the real bleeding started thursday night. By friday bloating and breast size and tenderness were greatly reduced, by end of day friday body was back to pre-pregnancy feeling.

But before I started spotting, the symptoms were really strong, which made it really hard wednesday night after i'd heard from the doctor that my pregnancy wasn't progressing, I felt betrayed that my body would still feel pregnant when it wasn't going to happen, it was really very confusing.

Now that it's been a few days I can say I am grateful that I know my husband and I can conceive. And I am grateful that my body let go of the pregnancy when it did. I do know that some women carry past the time that their baby has stopped growing. I'm thankful that very soon after I found out our pregnancy was not going to happen I had the miscarriage.
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pitterpatter
replied on September 6th, 2004
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Yeah, atleast you know now. I'm not as worried now, but i'm kinda concerned. If I am pregnant my levels are really low. I still feel pregnant because of all my symptoms, but my test are still saying negative. Well, except that one test that was a faint positive. I'm wondering though if it was a false positive because I was reading on some website that first response has had some false positives reported. Who knows! I think I need to see a doc this week, but I don't want to go in and get tested and have them tell me i'm not. I'd feel stupid after that. Especially when I swear I am. I think even if they did say I wasn't i'd probably still believe I was. Only because i'm still progressing in my "pregnancy" and it's hard to believe your not when you have almost every symptom there is. Especially when your not on birth control for over a year now and you would have to have some kind of imbalance. However, how would you have an imbalance unless you were on bc.
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Kia
replied on September 6th, 2004
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Hormonal imbalances can occur naturally - birth control is often used to cure these imbalances.

I used first response and my first tests were really faint - I even dipped one into plain tap water to make sure they were working right Embarassed (that one came up negative) Rolling Eyes
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lou85
replied on March 10th, 2009
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lou
i had a miscarage resntly and im realy cut up about it because iv wonted a baby for so long but my boyfriend who iv bin with for 8yrs now is not bothed one bit..could he be happy that this as happend or could this be hurting him as much as me but he doesnt wont to show it??
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collettewilliams
replied on March 16th, 2009
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collette williams
i was nearly 11 weeks and miscarrage on sunday go into hosptial tuesday to get rid off what still there and till then i still feel pergnet it,s just not fair
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nikki1234
replied on April 2nd, 2009
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i had a miscarrage this time last yr!i am now pregnant and awaiting a scan its not til 14th of may!and im waiting nearly 2months for the scan im so worried that the same thing wil happen again,@the start of my pregnancy i had all the symtons morning sickness..etc..
but now i feel like they have all gone?? i think im about 3 months gone but am abit unsure!do the symtons go away after 3 months?
only thing io have got is a really sore back:(
can any 1 give me info i'd be sooooo thankful
thanks again
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Eliphant72
replied on April 14th, 2009
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I was 5 1/2 weeks yesterday but bleed heavily, major cramps and no longer feeling pregnancy symthoms. Bleed again today, went to GP and ultra sound and back to GP. They can't confirm what's going on but sadly I know this time wasn't meant to be. I hope and pray I am wrong! Going for blood test at end of wk to see what's going on.
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reallyconfused2
replied on April 14th, 2009
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confused
i woke up Wednesday morning at 3:30 am bleeding. I went to the hospital where blood test came back good. When I saw my OBGYN on Thursday he said I was having a miscarriage. The bleeding has slowed greatly, only appearing when I go to the bathroom. I have not experienced any pain nor have I passed anything.On Friday my hormone level had dropped a little, but was still in the high range. But I am still having positive home pregnancy tests. Could it be possible that I was pregnant with twins and maybe only miscarried with 1.
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Marcy884
replied on July 1st, 2009
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Micarried a twin
I've been in a situation in 2005 where I found out that I was pregnant, in about 2-3 months I started having really heavy bleeding. I went to the doctor's worried and upset thinking I was having a miscarriage, he ran some tests and actually told me he thinks I had a miscarriage. I went to get a ultra sound and surprisingly I was still pregnant, it wasn't until after I birthed my daughter that the doctor's saw 2 birth canals which meant I actually did miscarry her twin. So it can happen.
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candyg12
replied on July 28th, 2009
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what if i didnt kno i was preganant?like i came on my period at the beginning of july for two days then i went off..my boyfriend and i have been having unprotected sex since then!!i didnt have any morning sickness but my breast did start hurting and feeling tender from time to time...but at the end of july the back pain and crams woke me up out my sleep!i went to the restroom didnt see any blood but when i urinated i saw blood cum out!i put on a pad it wasnt a lot of blood but it was thick n dark red!could this possibly be a miscarriage!
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Nique122
replied on September 24th, 2009
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I am very irregular and I finally got a period after 6 mo. It started out very light and brown. Now it is vey heavy and there are massive bolld clots. Strange thing is my breast are sore and I am not having any cramps at all like I would with a regular period. I am however having really bad back pains. Is this a sign of a miscarriage?
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