Understanding Implantation Bleeding: Causes, Symptoms & When to Worry

Question
I am so confuse right now. I finish with my period on December 7. me and my husband are trying to conceive so we had sex every other day which where December 16,18,20,23 and 24 then on the 28 i started spoting and this continue till the 4 of this month which is January 4 no more spoting all day long it was a pinkish orange maybe brown spoting but mainly pink i think it was implantation blood but it was long now earlier today on today January 5 i took a nap and use the restroom and notice more blood but it was a little redder but not like a regular period and now it stop again i actually thought i got my period also i felt headaches for two days on the 4 and 5 of January and my right breast has been hurting this whole week i am so confuse it not like a period because it has no flow but it also cant be implantation theres no such thing as implantation bleeding is there?

Answer
Dear Dana

This is probably a miscarriage. Sometimes pregnancy occurs and at the expected time of menstruation, miscarriage occurs accidentally. Bleeding in this case is usually atypical and is mistaken for a period. This type of pregnancy is known as chemical pregnancy. This is because if a blood test is taken, it will show raised hCG level which is the hormone of pregnancy but at the same time, a sac cannot be visualized by ultrasound. Implantation bleeding occurs earlier than in your case.
If you continue to have this bleeding, examination will be necessary to exclude any organic abnormality.

Good Luck