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Is Spotting A Symptom Of Pregnancy?
My husband and I were trying for a baby for over a year and recently have just given up. I know that spotting is a symptom of pregnancy but I really do not want to get our hopes up. Especially if I am not pregnant. For two days when I went to the bathroom I found perfect round little droplets of brownish blood on my underwear, but when I wiped front and back to check there was nothing on the toilet paper. It only did this for two days now. Is there something I should do or know about this and is it relevant to possibly being pregnant?
Thu, 15 Sep 2016
Hallow Dear,
The pregnancy is characterised by 'no bleeding' (no menstrual period). Spotting is not at all a symptom of pregnancy.
However, some women do get some spotting to scanty bleeding at or around the day of expected menstruation during early month(s) of pregnancy, which might be true in your case.
The wise step is to find evidence for the pregnancy by either or both of the following:
1. Wait for about a week. Then perform pregnancy test on overnight early morning first urine sample. Done earlier, it may report false negative.
2. You may get Beta hCG test done on your blood from any day today onwards. Values more than 25 mIU/ml are diagnostic or pregnancy while in non-pregnant state, the values are less than 5 mIU/ml.
If the test(s) reveal that you are not pregnant, you will get full fledge bleeding shortly.
I hope this should resolve the dilemma of the situation.
Dr. Nishikant Shrotri
The pregnancy is characterised by 'no bleeding' (no menstrual period). Spotting is not at all a symptom of pregnancy.
However, some women do get some spotting to scanty bleeding at or around the day of expected menstruation during early month(s) of pregnancy, which might be true in your case.
The wise step is to find evidence for the pregnancy by either or both of the following:
1. Wait for about a week. Then perform pregnancy test on overnight early morning first urine sample. Done earlier, it may report false negative.
2. You may get Beta hCG test done on your blood from any day today onwards. Values more than 25 mIU/ml are diagnostic or pregnancy while in non-pregnant state, the values are less than 5 mIU/ml.
If the test(s) reveal that you are not pregnant, you will get full fledge bleeding shortly.
I hope this should resolve the dilemma of the situation.
Dr. Nishikant Shrotri
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