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I really need your views please -bfp now heavy bleeding

Hi everyone,
I posted in the 'general' chat forum earlier this week that i had pregnancy symptoms and on Christmas day got a bfp. However the very next morning [yesterday], which is the day my period would usually start, I had bleeding -a lot of bleeding.
This bleeding carried on for the rest of the day and so I went to the chemist to get sanitary towels and spoke to the pharmacist about what I was experiencing and for them to recommend some pain relief. She told me not to worry too much as bleeding can be normal about the time of my period in my first month of pregnancy. However last night the bleeding was heavier and there's still some bleeding this morning.

I also read that sometimes bleeding occurs because the hcg level is not yet high enough to stop a period occuring in the first month of pregnancy.

I am confused and concerned because the bleeding is very very heavy [heavier than a normal period], with phases of dark red and bright red, and with clots. All of this I know is symptoms of miscarriage. I had pain yesterday like period pain, but then last night my body only was sore in places there were tender prior to the bleeding [pregnancy symptoms] such as sore breasts, a certain place on my lower abdomen and just above my belly button which I believe is to do with the uterus growing [attach to the muscles above it]. Right now I dont have any pain anywhere.

So please can you give me your honest opinion -do you think I have miscarried or have I just had a 'normal' [the internet says this is common apparently] first month of pregnancy bleed at the time of my period, albeit very very heavy?

I am planning on doing another test later to see if it shows a positive, although I have read that it can take a while sometimes for the hcg to drop if it's a misscarry. I'll then see the doc.
It's annoying as I am at my husband's family's house for Christmas and they don't know I am/was pregnant and what I am now going through so I have to keep smiling and keeping up appearences :(
Going home today though.

Thanks in advance for your feedback on whether you think I have miscarried or not.

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