New, not sure if I'm pregnant

lpowell819 · November 2012

Hi all! I am new to The Bump and not quite sure whether I'm pregnant or just wishful thinking. Maybe someone here can ease my mind or at least give me some answers! I'll try to keep the background story brief. My boyfriend and I split up at the end of August. We've been talking pretty much ever since and have some things that we're trying to work out because we do want to make our relationship work. He has not moved any of his stuff out of the house, but has not yet come back to our house, but we see each other from time to time. The last time we saw each other (last Monday 10/29/12) we had sex. This was the first time since August. Ok, so when he left at the end of August, I finished out my pack of BC pills and then stopped taking them. At that time, I didn't know what we were doing or if we were getting back together, and I knew I had no plans of sleeping with anyone else in the foreseeable future. So, I have been off BC since early September. Prior to going off BC, I have been taking it consistently since December 2011. We had a miscarriage in late December (I had missed a few pills here and there and got pregnant, but didn't realize it until I was miscarrying a few weeks later). I have three children from my previous marriage (7, 10 and almost 13). My LMP began October 12, 2012 and lasted 3-3 1/2 days or so, which is pretty typical for me. Being that I am only on my second full month of no BC, I haven't really gotten on an ovulation cycle, but from the research I've done, I should have ovulated around the 23-25th. So, like I said, we had unprotected sex on the night of October 29th. The last couple of days I have felt like CRAP! This morning and yesterday morning, I had some pinkish-brownish discharge the first time I went to the bathroom, but nothing since. It was fairly transparent with a pinkish-brownish tinge to it. My back has been KILLING me for two days, but I also did a lot of cleaning over the weekend. I have been dizzy for a couple of days and had a dull headache. I feel kinda? flabby. Yesterday, my mood was all over the place and I have had a little bit of cramping/discomfort on the left side down near my pelvis since I woke up yesterday. Off and on for the last few days, I have had hot flashes (I'm only 30), cold flashes, felt nauseous and nothing sounds appetizing. I'm not very hungry and I've been peeing slightly more than usual, but that's not enough for me to take notice. My period isn't due until the 11th or 12th. This morning and yesterday morning I felt crampy and had diarrhea, which I normally have the day before or two days before I start my period. At the earliest, I can't take a home test until next Monday, which would be two weeks after sex and the day I should start my period. Any thoughts on whether any of these signs mean I'm pregnant? I?ve been trying to remember feeling any of these things with my first three, but I wasn?t this aware of the possibility of being pregnant with any of them. It wouldn?t be a bad thing if I am pregnant. He and I are working out our stuff and taking steps to get back together and have a stronger relationship. Kids are definitely in our future and maybe a jump start wouldn?t be the worst thing in the world. Obviously not ideal, but we would both be happy if I am, in fact, pregnant.

gscoville · November 2012

All those symptoms could be as much due to your body readjusting to life without birth control as pregnancy. It can take many months for your body to come down off of BCP, and while it does you can expect to experience many of the same reactions to all those hormones your body now has to work to produce naturally. The only way you'll be able to tell for sure if you're pregnant or not is to test, plain and simple.

By the way, if you only had unprotected sex on Oct. 29, it's highly unlikely you'd have such definite pregnancy symptoms only a week later...it takes about a week or so for the egg to even get from fertilization to implantation, then another week or two for that egg to produce hormones at a level your body would react to. Usually those same levels are what will show on a pregnancy test. If as you say it's too early to test, it's also likely too early for symptoms. Wait to see if you miss your period, then test, and keep testing once a week or so until you either get a BFP or hit CD60 without AF and go see your doctor.

McWinterS10 · November 2012

the only thing to do is take a test. And good luck to you and your bf with working things out Smile

sunlavender · November 2012

Pregnant!

sunlavender · November 2012

Home Pregnancy Tests are your friend.

tiffanyandjason2012 · November 2012

sunlavender:
Home Pregnancy Tests are your friend.

This

sunlavender · November 2012

ColeRose:

sunlavender:
Home Pregnancy Tests are your friend.

tl; dr

Sometimes HPTs lie Sun, they lie!!!

That's true Cole. My brother's wife's sister's cousin's friend once got a negative on a HPT. But wouldn't you know? 8 months later she popped out twins. Come to think of it, I did hear that they aren't accurate in the cause of multiples.

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