Tell me it's not IB if it comes the day before your period should!

heathergirl67

Having implantation bleeding with my last pregnancy really screwed me up.  Here's the situation:  My period started the day before I expected it to.  Unusual, but nothing newsworthy.  The weird thing is that I always have long periods.  ONCE I had a four-day period, and that was a freak occurence.  This period a few days ago was only 24 hours long.  If I'm remembering correctly, it was more blood than with my implantation bleeding.  And the blood was red.  Truly, I'm 95% sure that I'm not pregnant.  Any other time I would forget that it ever happened (yeah right).  But I have an HSG scheduled on Tuesday.  On Monday they're going to charge me $20 to do a blood pregnancy test.  If I am pregnant, I'd rather cancel everything and find out via a $1 pee stick.  But I would feel ridiculous doing that because I'm obviously not pregnant!  I don't know if it's even possible for someone to have implantation bleeding at 13dpo!  What do you think?  Besides the obvious: I'm over-analyzing this.  At this point I'm debating on whether or not to POAS on Sunday.

Pixiestx

I say, spend the $1 and poas.  Sure it seems ridiculous but it's better than driving yourself crazy for the next couple days with these thoughts.  For the record, I don't blame you for thinking that way. I've thought way crazier things. The only time I probably would believe that was a period, is if you were taking clomid. My period got really really short and light on it, which it is normally not.

babes12

spend the $1 to ease your mind.

sometimes i get red blood at the very start of my pre-af spotting.  then for the next few days it's brown until eventually it turns into af. 

babes12

btw, GL w/ the HSG.  it's really not that bad.  uncomfortable yes, but it only lasts a few minutes, if that. 

heathergirl67

babes12:

btw, GL w/ the HSG.  it's really not that bad.  uncomfortable yes, but it only lasts a few minutes, if that. 

Cool, thanks.  I think it's just a weird menstrual cycle.  After two days of nothing, I've started spotting again.  My body just can't make up it's mind.  I'm actually really relieved, because I recently read a couple of articles about how late implantation often leads to pregnancy loss.  That is not something I want to have to go through/worry about again.

babes12

heathergirl67:

babes12:

btw, GL w/ the HSG.  it's really not that bad.  uncomfortable yes, but it only lasts a few minutes, if that. 

Cool, thanks.  I think it's just a weird menstrual cycle.  After two days of nothing, I've started spotting again.  My body just can't make up it's mind.  I'm actually really relieved, because I recently read a couple of articles about how late implantation often leads to pregnancy loss.  That is not something I want to have to go through/worry about again.

oh that's good, at least you know now and you don't have to worry.  stupid af's always messing w/ us.

KristysRedBarn

I'm doubtful it's IB, but I think it's totally worth $1 to find out for sure.