How can you have pregnancy symptoms if your baby died or never formed before producing HCG?

Question

My friend had a blighted ovum (baby never formed) and she claimed to have pregnancy symptoms until she miscarried.

How can you have pregnnacy sympoms when the baby never produced HCG? I don't get how that could happen.

Answer 1

Your body still produces HCG, so you totally get the pregnancy symptoms. The egg is feritilized and implants, and a placenta forms but for some reason the fertilized egg stops developing. BUT - the placenta is still there and attached to the uterus. The placenta continues to produce HCG even though there is no baby anymore. It takes a while for your body to figure out that there is a placenta but no baby. Your body totally "thinks" it's pregnant until the miscarriage and then all the other hormones get to work and the HCG levels drop.

The whole thing really sucks. Pregnancy symptoms can be awful and it is even worse if there isn't even a baby to make it all worth it!

Answer 2

I have this same thing going on for the 2nd time now. you do get pregnancy symptoms, because you do have Hcg in your system. Your levels will continue to rise and then suddenly start dropping, as mine have just done.

it is not in your head. I have all of the blood test that were ran to check my hcg and they continued to rise until this last test and now it is falling.

She will lose all of the symptoms after she miscarries or has a d&c to remove it.

I'm sorry this happened to her and I know what she is going through.

Answer 3

I had a blighted ovum...tes you were pregnant. Sperm and egg met and produced HCG. But never developed past that. I had morning sickness for a week or so and it stopped. At my 9 week u/s I found that it was a blighted ovum. They could see a sac but nothing in it. The baby doesn't produce hcg, your body does because sperm and egg have met.

Answer 4

The baby doesn't produce the HCG. It is actually a cyst on the ovary where the egg was released. It helps to maintain the pregnancy until the placenta takes over and make it itself. That is how she could have they symptoms.

Answer 5

You can't....my doctor told me (because I was spotting heavy during first trimester and it was possible I was starting to miscarry) at one appointment that me feeling like crap (sick to my stomach and tired) was great because it meant I was still pregnant. She said if I suddenly felt better over night or anything to come in right away. It was probably in your friend's "head". A lot of pregnant women feel pregnancy symptoms just because they think they should. A book I read during my first pregnancy said that too. She was probably so excited that she excited herself into feeling the symptoms. I feel sorry for her, but ya can't. I am 18 weeks now and STILL sick lol!

Answer 6

Some women have psychological pregnancies. They exibit all the symptoms of pregnancy, minus the baby itself.

Answer 7

that's an incredibly late reaction yet whilst somebody can clarify to me.... if the indicators of being pregnant dont take place until implantation happens then how is it that a woman who's pregnant in her tubes could have being pregnant indications???? for sure the egg didnt make it to implant contained in the uterine lining, ideal????

Answer 8

yes, that can happend cause my sister had the same thing happen to her and her doctor told her that she had the symptoms because your body still produces a hormone that make you have feel like your still pregnant. its so weird, because after my sister had to have it remove she felt fine, she didn't have any morning sickness or didn't feel the cravings.

Answer 9

your mind can do powerful things. Sometimes women who badly want children get pregnancy symptoms. They will even miss a period but never have been pregnant all along. It's really quite strange...

Answer 10

I don't think its possible because HCG is the reason for all the symptoms.

But I'm no expert!