can you miscarriage and still have a positive pregnancy test?
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Because today's pregnancy tests usually detect even very low levels of hCG, taking a pregnancy test in the days or immediate weeks after your miscarriage can still show a positive result. You may also continue to feel pregnancy symptoms after a miscarriage, even when it is 100 percent certain that you have miscarried.
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What Does a Low hCG Level Mean? However, falling hCG levels are not a definitive sign of miscarriage, even with bleeding. Sometimes, hCG levels drop, but then rise again and the pregnancy continues normally. Although this is not common, it can happen.
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You should not consider a positive to be a true positive until it happens at 15 or 16 DPO (in other words, after your period is late). Of course, there is still a risk of miscarriage at this point.
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On the other hand, women who have passed a positive pregnancy test and get intermittent bleeding can be terrified they are having a miscarriage. However, intermittent bleeding is quite harmless. It usually happens during the first month of pregnancy, but it can reoccur for a few more months as well.
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Could a positive result be wrong? Although rare, it's possible to get a positive result from a home pregnancy test when you're not actually pregnant. This is known as a false-positive.
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After a miscarriage or abortion, the levels of hCG start to fall, but only slowly. Typically, hCG declines over a period ranging anywhere from 9 to 35 days. The average time frame is around 19 days. Taking a pregnancy test within that period can result in a false-positive test.
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Even in women with a confirmed miscarriage, a pregnancy test may show a positive result for up to a month afterward. Depending on where you are in your pregnancy, the doctor can check your cervix, monitor your hCG levels and/or perform an ultrasound to determine whether you are miscarrying.
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Take a Pregnancy Test In this case, you will need to check with your physician to find out for sure. A pregnancy test may still be positive soon after a miscarriage because the pregnancy hormone (hCG) level has not decreased enough to make a pregnancy test negative.
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You Had an Early Miscarriage While your pregnancy symptoms may have been all too real, a negative test may suggest that you've experienced a very early miscarriage (also known as a chemical pregnancy).
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If the pain and bleeding have lessened or stopped completely during this time, this usually means the miscarriage has finished. You should be advised to take a home pregnancy test after 3 weeks.
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Not Believing Positive Test Results If you are not pregnant, a false positive pregnancy test result is unlikely. The more likely explanation is that you had a chemical pregnancy (which produces enough hCG to turn a pregnancy test positive but miscarries shortly after) or a very early miscarriage.
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False positive pregnancy tests are very rare. Most women will never have one. In fact, false positives are so rare that if a woman does have a positive test and later has a negative test, she should assume she had a very early miscarriage. If you test positive, try testing again a day later.
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It's possible to have a positive pregnancy test even if you aren't technically pregnant. This is called a false positive. It's sometimes caused by a chemical pregnancy. A chemical pregnancy occurs if a fertilized egg, known as the embryo, is unable to implant, or grow, very early on.
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Because hCG is usually only present in your body when you're pregnant, false positive results are incredibly rare. If you use a reliable pregnancy test, like Clearblue, you can be over 99% certain you're pregnant if you see a positive result.
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HCG results may stay high (positive) for up to 4 weeks after a miscarriage or therapeutic abortion.
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At week 4, miscarriage is called a chemical pregnancy since the embryo cannot be detected on ultrasound, only through blood and urine testing. Signs of miscarriage include cramping, spotting, and heavy bleeding.
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"Loss of pregnancy symptoms does not necessarily indicate miscarriage, since many pregnancy symptoms do often improve as pregnancy progresses." Not every woman's pregnancy is the same. If you feel that your symptoms have subsided earlier than normal, however, head to your OBGYN.