Patient's question:
Preparing to have a child with my husband, but we haven't been able to get pregnant. My menstrual cycle has also always been irregular, making it especially difficult to confirm my fertile period. Today, I suddenly had some bleeding, and the estimated time was not yet close to my period. I'm a bit worried it might be a miscarriage. I can't tell if it's my period or a miscarriage. How should I verify it?Doctor's answer:
To verify whether it is menstruation or miscarriage, you can have sexual intercourse for more than 10 days and go to the hospital to have a thorough urine hCG test. This is the earliest method for pregnancy testing and the most accurate method. Alternatively, you can use a pregnancy test stick to test the middle section of morning urine to predict pregnancy if your period is delayed by 5 days. In addition to the two methods mentioned above, you can also go to the hospital for an abdominal color Doppler ultrasound examination. If a gestational sac is observed inside the uterus, it can be diagnosed as pregnancy.