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Re: Would a doctor be able to tell?? - February 28th 2010, 12:46 AM
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Doctors are often able to tell if a miscarriage did in fact occur if no pregnancy is present, but there is still small deposits of HCG in a blood test (the pregnancy hormone, which takes the body a little while to flush itself of after a miscarriage).
How long after a misscarriage can a doctor tell, though? Like, how long does the hormone take to wash out of your system?
I am in a similer situation, although I would have been way more than a month pregnant, more like 2.5. And I would have "misscarriaged" about 3-4 weeks ago.
But I was wondering the same thing as the original poster.