Think I'm Pregnant But Need Advice
QUESTION
Dear Midwife,
I have a big Question well here it goes. I have had 3 kids in the past so I know the signs of pregnancy but I have a twist to it.
Heres the thing my husband had a vasectomy a year ago got tested and everything but I didn't have my cycle this month on the 7th. I always start on the 7th i'm always on time never late.
I have been having signs of pregnancy like sore breast, mood swings, fatigue, nausea vomiting, headaches and constipation.
Anyway I had all these things but then about 2 weeks after I missed my cycle I had horrible cramping with bleeding that lasted for 1 1/2 days. I have never in my life had cramping or bleeding like this in my periods or any cramping in my periods, so I didn't think it was a period. Also my periods last for 4 to 5 days always. So I have rulled that out.
I have taken a pregnancy test but it came up negative like all my others did. But heres the thing my first only came up on a blood test after 3 months. My second came up after 4 months in the doctors office and my third came up on a dollar tree as a false positive and in the doctors office the same so they took a blood test to see if I was and I was. So on home tests my HcG levels are to low to tell.
I don't know what to do. I don't have any idea what is going on with me. I hope you could give me an idea on if i'm pregnant or if its something else. I thought I was and still think it maybe a possibility but after the bleeding i don't know. Please let me know.
Thank youu so much in advance.
Maria
ANSWER
If your pregnancy test is negative this long after a missed period, it is unlikely that you are carrying a viable pregnancy now.
However, it is possible that you miscarried. We will never know, as you did not have a positive pregnancy test.
Hopefully, your cycles will re-regulate soon.
You might want to have your husband tested again, but even if he still comes up with no viable sperm, my urologist colleagues tell me that vasectomies are not 100%, and that there can be viable sperm from time to time.
-- Cynthia, CNM. PhD.
Cynthia Flynn
Cynthia Flynn, CNM. PhD, is the General Director of the Family Health and Birth Center which provides prenatal, birth, postnatal, gynecological and primary health care to underserved women and their families in Washington, D.C. Recently Cynthia served as Associate Professor of Nursing at Seattle University. There she not only taught, but remained in full scope clinical midwifery practice at Valley Medical Center where she cared for pregnant and birthing women, and practices well-woman gynecology, family planning, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Cynthia founded Columbia Women's Clinic and Birth Center, where she took care of pregnant women and infants up to two weeks of age and attended both birth center and hospital births. Before Cynthia earned her CNM, she worked as a registered nurse in labor and delivery and postpartum and is a certified Doula and Doula trainer.
