I had heavy implantation bleeding with clots reddit

My partner and I (22 y/o) aren't ready for a family yet. I don't have any symptoms that would make me paranoid I am pregnant except one - I got a period just two weeks after my last period. That's unusual for my body because I'm usually on the late side (~30-35 day cycles usually). I have a lot of questions about things I'm confused about.

Here is some info:

• Pretty heavy blood flow the first day (normally I have little bleeding the first day), which was 2 weeks after my last period. Cramps similar to my usual periods.

• Seems like a little more clotting than usual (small clots like I've had before, though. Less than the size of half my pinky nail)

• Unprotected sex ~7 days before I got this weird period.

• S.O. never ejaculates inside me. It's not a "quick! pull-out-last-minute" thing, either; we are careful with never getting anywhere near that point. He makes sure to shower and urinate to clear any possible lingering sperm from a previous day before we have sex. We don't have sex if he's ejaculated the same day already. I know there's a divided line between people who believe pre-cum has sperm and people who don't believe it. Obviously we partake in this behavior because we believe it has a very low chance of sperm in pre-cum if you take precautions and do it right...but I know nobody knows for sure yet (studies are inconclusive) so I'd rather not debate about that in particular. For the sake of my questions, let's just all assume it's possible.

• I've been pretty darn stressed in the last few days before this period came because my S.O. is leaving for a month in a few weeks. Now with this weird situation I feel even more stressed because he will be gone while I might possibly dealing with all of this.

• Normally when I'm stressed, my period comes very late, not early.

Questions:

1. We read into implantation bleeding, which can happen 6-12 days after conception. I think it fits our time-frame. I had heavy bleeding...and a lot of pregnancy stories from women online made it seem like all women vary, so implantation bleeding can be as little as tiny spotting to really heavy bleeding! Does anyone know much about this?

2. Is it possible to have a miscarriage at 2 weeks and mistaken it for a period?

3. Is a home pregnancy test practically useless if I test myself too early? I notice all of the descriptions of urine pregnancy tests claim good accuracy 3-5 days before a missed period. If that's the case, I would need to wait weeks before my missed period and there's nothing I can do on my own right now? On the other hand, my friend said Planned Parenthood told her a pregnancy test is good 2 weeks from conception.

4. If this is not a pregnancy scare and this turns out to be just a weird period from stress, when will my next period be? Will this start a new monthly schedule now? Or will I go back to my regular schedule, meaning I will have another period in two weeks again to get back on track? I ask because I know you're not supposed to have a period every 2 weeks and having that can lead to anemia.

I know these questions are best with a doctor, but I'm a broke college grad with have no health insurance right now and I don't want to make a big deal over something that might turn out to be nothing...I was hoping I could turn here to get some answers for the time being since it seems a little too early for me to be able to do anything yet. Sorry for so many questions. I really appreciate any answers!

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My period was a day late. Negative test. Then light period like bleeding for three days, but seemed like allot for implantation. Then a week later had a positive pregnancy test.

I just thought how weird it was. I never learned about that before it happened to me. So I wondered how it was for everyone else.

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I had enough bleeding that I thought it was my period, until my ultrasound when I found out I was at least a week further along than I had originally thought. So weird. I can’t remember if it was a lot of bleeding just that I marked it in my Calendar as a period.

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Like 2-3 days of very light, bright red blood mixed with some clear mucus-y discharge. Not enough to wear a pad or liner but definitely noticeable. Started (I'm guessing) just a few days after conception. Never had bleeding like that before so I'm assuming that's what it was.

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I personally didn’t have any implantation bleeding, only cramping. I had just had an IUD removed though so I hadn’t had a period in over two years so I’m not sure if that effected it. Every body is different!

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For both my babies (15 mo old and 27 was pregnant now), I had the weirdest period that lasted two days and disappeared.

But for my daughter, a week later when we were traveling in Scotland and went to a restaurant, I found out I was bleeding or spotting and stained their chair at the end of dining. This was a good week after the weird period. Good thing my pants were black. My MIL made me run out and she was too flustered to let them know.

This baby I’m pregnant with, no more bleeding after that two day period.

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I never had any, just a weird twingey feeling for a few hours on the right side of my uterus, by my pelvic bone.

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It depends. I never had implantation bleeding with any of my pregnancies.

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The phrase "Implantation" Bleeding is popular on conception forums but is a bit of a misnomer that causes some people to think that the bleeding is due to the embryo implanting. It isn't -- the embryo is only about 0.2mm in diameter at that point, and won't displace significant blood (or cause pain) when it implants. You bleed when progesterone levels in your body drop, which is why you can induce a period by stopping birth control pills (which contain progesterone) or by taking and then stopping progesterone suppositories or Provera (which are also progesterone). Progesterone levels dropping in the luteal phase can be caused by a) increased estrogen in the mid-luteal-phase estrogen surge, which briefly depresses estrogen production, or b) a decrease in progesterone when the corpus luteum runs out of gas at the end of the luteal phase. If b), and you're actually pregnant, your levels can drop briefly before the embryo starts producing enough HCG to tell the corpus luteum to ramp the levels up. Either way, luteal phase spotting can either be a neutral sign (in the case of mid-luteal phase spotting) or a negative sign (in the case of late luteal phase progesterone dropping), but it doesn't have anything to do with implantation, and is not a positive sign of being pregnant. Source 1 Source 2

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I had 3 or 4 days of implantation bleeding starting 5 days before my period was due. It was light; I used panty liners and it was similar to the end of my period type bleeding but red. Maybe some very light cramping but not much.

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The phrase "Implantation" Bleeding is popular on conception forums but is a bit of a misnomer that causes some people to think that the bleeding is due to the embryo implanting. It isn't -- the embryo is only about 0.2mm in diameter at that point, and won't displace significant blood (or cause pain) when it implants. You bleed when progesterone levels in your body drop, which is why you can induce a period by stopping birth control pills (which contain progesterone) or by taking and then stopping progesterone suppositories or Provera (which are also progesterone). Progesterone levels dropping in the luteal phase can be caused by a) increased estrogen in the mid-luteal-phase estrogen surge, which briefly depresses estrogen production, or b) a decrease in progesterone when the corpus luteum runs out of gas at the end of the luteal phase. If b), and you're actually pregnant, your levels can drop briefly before the embryo starts producing enough HCG to tell the corpus luteum to ramp the levels up. Either way, luteal phase spotting can either be a neutral sign (in the case of mid-luteal phase spotting) or a negative sign (in the case of late luteal phase progesterone dropping), but it doesn't have anything to do with implantation, and is not a positive sign of being pregnant. Source 1 Source 2

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Can you still have you’re period after implantation bleeding?

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The phrase "Implantation" Bleeding is popular on conception forums but is a bit of a misnomer that causes some people to think that the bleeding is due to the embryo implanting. It isn't -- the embryo is only about 0.2mm in diameter at that point, and won't displace significant blood (or cause pain) when it implants. You bleed when progesterone levels in your body drop, which is why you can induce a period by stopping birth control pills (which contain progesterone) or by taking and then stopping progesterone suppositories or Provera (which are also progesterone). Progesterone levels dropping in the luteal phase can be caused by a) increased estrogen in the mid-luteal-phase estrogen surge, which briefly depresses estrogen production, or b) a decrease in progesterone when the corpus luteum runs out of gas at the end of the luteal phase. If b), and you're actually pregnant, your levels can drop briefly before the embryo starts producing enough HCG to tell the corpus luteum to ramp the levels up. Either way, luteal phase spotting can either be a neutral sign (in the case of mid-luteal phase spotting) or a negative sign (in the case of late luteal phase progesterone dropping), but it doesn't have anything to do with implantation, and is not a positive sign of being pregnant. Source 1 Source 2

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