A week late for my period...still worrying and cramping, help?!

[Kells81]

I very much doubt it was a miscarriage, I am sure it was a late period and I really don't think we should be considering that it is a miscarriage at all!

I agree, it helps no one by suggesting worse case scenarios!

[katesa]

Ah..but the hcg takes over 4 weeks to show in the urine in some cases, so could have still been a miscarriage.

If she was far enough along for pregnancy "symptoms" and for her period to be so late, then she was far enough along for a positive pregnancy test if she were in fact pregnant.

I'd like to see a source that says it is common for HCG to take over 4 weeks after ovulation/fertilization to show in the urine because while I've heard that a very tiny minority of women don't get positive pregnancy tests, I've never heard this figure and believe it is rare.

On the other hand, a late or missed period is very very normal so I think to speculate on such a slight chance is really overreaching and comes across slightly as scaremongering.

[Annie0904]

If she was far enough along for pregnancy "symptoms" and for her period to be so late, then she was far enough along for a positive pregnancy test if she were in fact pregnant.

I'd like to see a source that says it is common for HCG to take over 4 weeks after ovulation/fertilization to show in the urine because while I've heard that a very tiny minority of women don't get positive pregnancy tests, I've never heard this figure and believe it is rare.

On the other hand, a late or missed period is very very normal so I think to speculate on such a slight chance is really overreaching and comes across slightly as scaremongering.

I couldn't agree more x

[Kells81]

If she was far enough along for pregnancy "symptoms" and for her period to be so late, then she was far enough along for a positive pregnancy test if she were in fact pregnant.

I'd like to see a source that says it is common for HCG to take over 4 weeks after ovulation/fertilization to show in the urine because while I've heard that a very tiny minority of women don't get positive pregnancy tests, I've never heard this figure and believe it is rare.

On the other hand, a late or missed period is very very normal so I think to speculate on such a slight chance is really overreaching and comes across slightly as scaremongering.

You took the words out of my mouth-well said!!x

[LucyR]

There is still a chance that that did happen you just never know, it was a very real possibility.

[katesa]

There is still a chance that that did happen you just never know, it was a very real possibility.

I'll go out on a limb here and say that I'd bet anything that it did NOT happen. She had a late period.

Pregnancy tests are 99% effective if taken from the day of a missed period. Girlafraid took 4, all of which were negative. Now I am no mathematician but I can see the odds of that happening are so microscopic that they are not worth worrying about. So small that they are certainly not worth coming on and scaring a girl with panic and anxiety disorders whose problem has been fixed.

On the other hand, the vast majority of women get a late period now and then.

I hope Girlafraid feels better and happier now that her period has turned up.