I am just curious. i could have had a possible "chemical pregnancy" and my doctor didn really ellaberate what that meant. if you have had one or know anything about it let me know . please thanks bunchs. P.s i am trying to get pregnant so i wonder if it happens ofton and should worry?
2006-10-02 14:20:48 · 4 answers · asked by Amber w 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Trying to Conceive
What is a chemical pregnancy?
A chemical pregnancy is another name for a very early miscarriage.
When implantation occurs, but the pregnancy fails to develop properly, it is called a chemical pregnancy. That's because you were technically pregnant (you produced the chemical HCG), but a normal pregnancy did not result. You see it as a regular period, or a period that is a few days late.
Chemical pregnancies occur very frequently. That is probably what happens in most of the months that you are trying but don't get pregnant. These are not considered miscarriages (though they are technically very early miscarriages), and have no effect on your ability to get pregnant in the future.
It can take up to a year to get pregnant. That's not because there were no sperm to fertilize the egg. If you are actively trying, there usually is sperm available. The egg is there, too. However, many things can go wrong.
Human reproduction appears to be a very wasteful process. Every woman is born with millions of eggs and each man produces trillions of sperm during a lifetime. Most are never even used. Even when the conditions are right for pregnancy (a sperm meets an egg) many things can and do go wrong. The egg could be abnormal, the sperm could be abnormal or the combination could be abnormal. In any of these cases, the fertilized egg could fail to grow.
Or it is possible for the egg to grow, but then when it gets to the uterus, it doesn't implant. Or it implants, but stops growing and is washed out with a menstrual cycle. Or it starts growing and you miss your period, but then it stops growing. In that case, you would get your period a few days late.
Even after a pregnancy is fully established, there is still a 20% chance of miscarriage
2006-10-02 14:25:04 · answer #1 · answered by **KELLEY** 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you merely had a "blighted ovum" or "chemical pregnancy" and miscarried. There is no reason why you could not immediately start trying to conceive once again after getting a regular period. You can use Clomid or try without its help. Clomid increases the chance of ovulation and cannot hurt to take. I would also continue to take the progesterone (Prometrium). We do not know the cause of miscarriage. It occurs in 15-20% of every pregnancy. There is nothing you can do to cause a miscarriage and there is nothing you can do to prevent a miscarriage. Your stomach virus or gastroenteritis would not have caused the miscarriage or caused any harm to the growing fetus.
2006-10-02 14:25:23 · answer #2 · answered by BIB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I do know a little. I had one in July :( To simplify things on Tuesday I tested and it was negative, Friday morning just 3 days later I tested and got a positive, yeah....by the following Wednesday I was spotting and I panic-ed call the doctor and rushed to the pharmacy. As I was driving to the pharmacy the doctor called and told me that taking another pregnancy test wouldn't show negative..... Little did he know I got home and it was negative.... went to the doctors in the morning but first tested again and it was positive again. he did blood work and tested that I was in fact pregnant but my hormones were dropping instead of rising ..... I would have only been 4 weeks on the Friday that I tested positive. Hope this helps a little, if you can understand it .... some times my fingers go slower than my thoughts :)
2006-10-02 14:27:12 · answer #3 · answered by Kristy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scott Evil was made from chemicals or somthing like that.
2006-10-02 14:25:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋