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8 Weeks and 4 days since last period......ultrasound done today...

HELLO EVERYONE, IT HAS BEEN 8 WEEKS AND 4 DAYS TODAY SINCE MY LAST PERIOD AND I WENT IN TO HAVE A ULTRASOUND DONE ON TODAY. WELL, AS ALWAYS, THE TECHNICIAN NEVER WANTS TO GIVE YOU ANY INFO REGARDING THE RESULTS, BUT I HAVE A QUESTION IN REGARDS TO WHAT I SAW ON THE SCREEN MYSELF. THERE WERE THREE SCANS DONE......UPPER ABDOMEN, LOWER ABDOMEN, AND TRANSVAGINAL. ON ALL THREE SCANS, I SAW SOMETHING PULSATING ON THE SCREEN. THE TECHNICIAN KEPT LOOKING AT THE THUMPING PICTURE ON THE SCREEN. SO THEN SHE ATTEMPTED TO DO THE LOWER ABDOMEN, SAME THING, PULSATING PICTURE ON THE SCREEN. THEN SHE HAD ME EMPTY MY BLADDER AND SHE DID THE TRANSVAGINAL, SAME THING. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHETHER I WAS WITNESSING MY BABY'S HEARTBEAT BECAUSE MY BLOOD TEST AND URINE TEST CAME BACK NEGATIVE ABOUT A WEEK OR SO AGO. THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY INPUT.
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We’re you pregnant?
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Hey Mookie.  Are you in a situation in which you are wondering if you are pregnant?  
Yeah, I am 55 days since my last period I had a light spotting one time for like an hour a few days ago, but I have taken maybe 10 tests that all say negative except for one weird squiggly looking faint line but since that one I have gotten a negative also. Just very confused :/
Hm.  Well, there is always the blood test the doctor can give.  Is that a possibility. while it is rare, some women don't trigger pregnancy tests for some reason.  Are you hoping to get pregnant?  If it turns out you aren't, then I'd have your hormone levels checked and they can also do a thyroid test. Those are other reasons for why periods can be late and symptoms can mimic pregnancy symptoms.  And if you WANT to get pregnant, they can make it a little harder so addressing it would give you a better chance.  
Yeah I’m going to have to do that, and yes we are trying. I had an ectopic last June so I’m quite afraid. Thank you!
Oh, sorry to hear about your ectopic.  That's a scary thing.  Talk to your doctor too when you are there about conceiving.  Have those tests run and see what the results are and we'll go from there. Come back and update!
Definitely will. Thank you!
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She said that she really didn't know what everything meant on the report being that she was only a female nurse practioner, so she made me an appointment with a ob/gyn doctor. Now I'm still waiting for more results. The ultrasound tech didn't tell me anything and she claims that she couldn't read the results so I'm still waiting. I went ahead and made my own appointment with a gynecologist three hours away. I don't even want to be bothered with them at that office ever again.
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290648 tn?1211591846
so did you have your appointment today? what did your dr say?
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Thanks so much. I'll check the little flicker out next time.
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Keep us posted.

In early preg, the hb is just a teeny tiny flicker.
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To be honest with you I couldn't really tell if it had a shape or not. You know how ultrasounds tend to look dark on the screen but if you see anything out of the ordinary, it sorta stand out from the rest of the things on the screen. That pulsating just happened to catch my attention on all three scans. Almost was like a blinking light or something. It's been 23 years since I had a baby so I can't remember what the heartbeat suppose to look like..
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Wow, what did the "pulsating thing" look like?  Did it have a shape?  You think they'd tell you if it was a baby...

Good luck to you.
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Thanks for the input. I appreciate your opinion.
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With a negative blood test last week, I would say that you are not pregnant.
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I am suppose to be seeing the doctor on Thursday. The lady that was doing the ultrasound wasn't very talkative at all. After everything was done, I asked her whether or not the scan indicate pregnancy and she said that my doctor will be in touch with me. The results won't be in for a couple days or so. The waiting game just drives me crazy. From all of the research I do on the internet, that pulsating figure on the screen to me just seem as though it was in fact a heartbeat. I'll just keep taking one day at a time I guess. If there's a baby in there, it eventually have to come forth right?
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290648 tn?1211591846


on the trans vag,when i saw the heartbeat i saw the gestational sac, a yolk sac, a bean of a fetus, with a dark flicker inside the fetus.

if the whole image you saw was pulsating i have no idea.

also, if they see a hb, they tend to let you hear it as well.

when will the dr. call you?
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