Please convince me I'm not pg....(so very long)
I am bringing this to you ladies because I'm not ready to be this crazy on my local board, I'm not willing to face the crazies on the national boards, and much of what is to follow is about being in tune with my body, which I think is a somewhat EFFer trait, right? (ETA: Being BSC isn't and EFFer trait, I know this 
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OK. On one hand, I'd love to, kill to, be pg again. On the other hand, a couple of months ago I quit taking my prenatals when I just got sick of taking 6 a day (I'd kept up with it as long as I did for BFing), so I haven't been taking any supplements, including folic acid.
We haven't been trying, were planning to start trying this summer, and I still have in my IUD. I was taking this opportunity to have a glass of wine or a beer or one drink every evening after LO goes to bed. I'd be so sad to have given a little bean such a bad start.
I'm pretty darn sure I can't be pg from this month, certainly my symptoms couldn't be from this soon, probably a week ago. I had a heavy but short cycle about four weeks ago. See? Not pg.
I am not peeing constantly, which I did for probably 7 months of my last/first pg. In fact, that and gagging horribly when I saw my dog do something I've seen a million times, eating his own poo, were my first two tell-tale symptoms. See? Not pg.
But IF. IF that last cycle wasn't a real one (2 light days bookending 2 heavy days), I'd be about 8 weeks along right now. Last week out of the blue:
-Suddenly got huge, crazy bloat
-Suddenly started gagging with every poopy diaper change
-My boobies are ridiculously sore and I have porn star nipples, nursing is getting really uncomfortable
-I've had a boatload of probably uterine cramping beginning a week or so ago
-I've been kinda backed up, as it were, so maybe it's not uterine cramping, but some intestinal issue.
-My face suddenly cleared up last week, as nice as when I was pg, which does occasionally happen the week of AF, but those 9 months were the best my face looked since I was about 10.
-I started getting really really emotional and sensitive and noticed it two wednesdays ago. When I get that with pms, it's like clockwork the day before AF, not 2+ weeks before, and it lasts one day. I can still cry at the drop of a hat.
Signs I'm BSC:
-My vision suddenly got worse. Just like where it was when I was pg. But I really don't think that started until somewhere in the second tri.
-Today, DS was on my right side and he wanted to move to my left
side, and I lifted him over me, and I swear I felt some ligaments that I only discovered during pg tweak. Too soon, I'm sure!
-Twice in the last few weeks, DS has been jumping around on the bed while I was lying on it and landed on my abdomen and there was a really weird sensation. Probably just my torn ab muscles from before, right? I mean, even if I am 8 weeks along, my uterus is still totally in my pelvis, right? No way I'd feel anything different.
-At least 5 times I've noticed feeling lightheaded, sort of like the
floor moving underneath me and needing to catch myself. But it's hot
out now and also I'm a little stuffy. Probably just an ear thing.
I have no sticks to pee on, not even OPKs. I could go tomorrow I guess, but I'd be crazy to, right? Right??
OMG, I'm going to be going crazy when we do start trying. Someone posted something like this the other night, and I would have written in to agree if I weren't nesting from my phone at the time.
Re: Please convince me I'm not pg....(so very long)
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Yes, you are totally right. Just wish I had a stick or I'd be peeing all over it!
On re-reading this, I think I am BSC.
Cheers!
The 5 times I've been pregnant, I've totally known. Like, "I may not be, but maybe, but yes, yes I think I am" kind of internal dialouge. I've never been on BC or had an IUD or anything, so that can throw a wrench into it.
I think I've read stories of getting PG with an IUD, but don't know.
I wish I was closer to you, I've got a leftover pregnancy test I SO need to bring to you!
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Heh, yeah, I really need one. Where do you live? I'm near DU.
I totally feel like I know, but then I have felt this way several times in the past, too, and was only right once and wrong twice.
The not peeing thing somehow is outweighing the obvious IUD and apparent AF last month....
Okeydokey.
So tomorrow I buy sticks to pee on. But will try to hold off a few days on actually using one.
And tonight I will take my PNVs again.
::waits for POAS update::
heh, there's a lot of locals on this board. :op
Are you getting regular periods with your IUD? I rarely get one with mine.
I also say pee. I have POAS several times with it in. If nothing else, it is good for piece of mind