Am I having a miscarrige? I never even thought I might be...

Disko2k · 04-27-2004, 01:15 PM

This is all very, very strange, please, I need some advice, or something:

I hope this isn't TMI, but what they hay...it's a message board, right?

I recently went back on glucophage, except this time i'm taking the XR, and it's been great.

about a week before going back on the meds, after being off them for several months, I got what I thought was my period.

Mind you, this was April1. The last time I had a period was the 1st week of February.

So, on Apr 1, turns out to be spotting. It goes away for 2 days, then comes back, more spotting, little heavier. Then goes away for a day, comes back heavier.. then, I've been spotting every single day since. We're going on almost a month here.

I spoke to my endo's nurse, who wants me to go to the lab to take a pregnancy blood test (??!?) and some other type of test to find out if I've ovulated (??!!?) at my last period (Feb 1)

Ive been reading up on spotting...and the first search hits always come up "miscarrige"

Is it possible I'm having a miscarrige without even knowing, or assuming I was pregnant? Since i've never had this happen in my life, the spotting thing, naturally, because of the pcos and screwy periods, never in amillion years would I assume that I was pregnant, it just never occured to me- a missed period, is never considered by me to be "missed" since I never know when they're going to show up anyway... and my husband and I aren't the most active couple (I have little-no drive...is this also part of the wonderful PCOS experience?) I don't think I've had any other signs of being pregnant. With the spotting, I'm having mild cramping and alot of low-back pain, also consistent with miscarrige.

Can anyone else confirm my curiosity? Has anyone else ever had this happen?? I'm defineitly kind of freaked- what kind of an idiot, might possibly be having a miscarrige, but never knew they were pregnant in the first place?? and If I'm not having a miscarrige, or if I'm not pregnant...then what is this?

RunnerDuck · 04-27-2004, 09:12 PM

it's possible - but please don't think you're an idiot, a lot of women find out they are preg that way...

i think pcos affects sex drive for a lot of us. for some, it goes up. for others... like me... it's non-existant...

jewels12345 · 04-27-2004, 10:54 PM

Just wanted to let you know that it's also quite posible that it's just spotting. When I wasn't on meds, I wouldn't get AF for months, except for some spotting every once in awhile. It would go on and off for a bit and then go away. I would cramp on and off too. You never know....it could just be your body being weird.

Julie