Very Early Preg Symptom - Abdominal Pressure/cramping? Posted: 12-24-03 08:27am
Good morning everyone! I have a
question. Dh and I have been ttc for a
few months. This month we tried
everything we could think of to make it
happen and bd'd on days 11-12 and 14 from
lmp. (think I o'd on day 13) on day 15, I
had some strong cramps and sharp pains on
one side all day long, and since then I
feel some really unusual and strong
pressure down low - like someone opened me
up and put a big cantelope in so it is
stretching and pushing on everything.
The feeling is very strong and non-stop
(day and night). Not quite like
menstrual cramps. Also I am sweating a
lot for me (i never ever sweat). No
other symptoms like breast tenderness or
anything but then I wouldn't expect
anything right now even if I was pregnant.
I am only 18 days from lmp now and it
seems way too early to have any symptoms.
I would not have even implanted yet.
Is it possible this is sign of pregnancy
already? I am fine with waiting until
next week for an hpt but I am just
wondering if I should be concerned that
something else is going on and get an
appt...
Thx!!
Tiffany
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purple333
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Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 12-24-03 10:22am
Tiffany,
some of us are not so up to date with
computer shorthand etc but if I understood
your post, you & your husband are
trying to conceive? This month you pulled
out all stops on the mid cycle days (not
sure how you could have o'd on day 13 -
hope he's ok??!!) & now you have
cramps & sweating?? Yes? By implant
do you mean you're on ivf? What is
bd'd??
Basically no 2 women are the same - no
matter what anyone tells you & so you
could be pregnant or you might just have
gone at it too hard & pulled some
muscles (which shouldn't explain the
sweating - but that could be from a flu or
other bug or???). If you want a real
reply could you explain your post so I can
comprehend it - we may also have an age
(i'm 4 & upside down
problem (i'm from a land downunder
-australia).
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dreamsicle
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 10
Response to Your Questions Posted: 12-24-03 11:16am
The shorthand i'm using is the standard
stuff used in online discussions of trying
to conceive (yes, thats ttc):
bd= having sex (dont ask me what it stands
for, I dunno)
lmp=last menstrual period - some people
count from dpo instead which is "days past
ovulation"
o'd = ovulated (not sure what you thought
I said but it sounds like it may have been
more fun that ovulating)
implanting means when the egg implants in
the uterine wall. That happens about 7-10
days after the egg is fertilized. Ivf
(in vitro fertilization) and if you are
bd-ing to get pregnant, you wouldn't need
ivf...
(hows that for a test run of the
lingo???)
hope this helps when you are reading posts
out there on the net....
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purple333
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Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 12-24-03 11:38am
Thanks!!! & no you wouldn't enjoy o'd
in the way I meant it ie overdosing!!
Although I guess overdosing on sex could
be different!!
Ok, now to your original questions. Yes
you could be pregnant but y as I said
before you could also just have pulled a
muscle in trying so much.
In ttc (i'll get the lingo - or some of
it one day!!) there's some serious facts
that people forget:
1) making love (not having sex) is
supposed to be fun not work not stressful
& not something you do on a time clock
(i know sometimes that proves to be the
only way - but why do you think so many
people who can not have children so adopt
or foster then suddenly find ooooops we're
pregnant - they relaxed they'd given up
& it happened, naturally they way it's
supposed to. So get some fun &
romance going.
2) have you ever heard of a "floating
ovulation"? I have because we discovered
that i'm one of those women who has it - I
ovulate whenever the fancy takes even
possibly more than once a month. I've had
6 pregancies (to get 2 kids) & I fell
once 2 days before my period was due &
with my daughter I fell on the last day of
my period. My son well he was very early
in the cycle but then I had a period after
I fell with him.
As to symptoms, they are as varied as
women, I knew each time within 24 hours
because I would have one huge totally
illogical & unreasonable emotional
outburst (the first time I said jokingly
to my husband that "this is what i'll be
like when pregnant emotional rather than
craving" & then we found out I was
pregnant. Two friends of mine knew the
moment they fell like that instant, they
both (no, they're not related & only
met through me after they'd had their
kids) said that their body just went into
overdrive & they knew & were
right.
Last time with my son(now almost 9) I was
told that a hpt was accurate something
like 48 hours after intercourse so you
could try that but if you're still in pain
or if it gets worse i'd see a dr just to
be safe.
Merry christmas
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dreamsicle
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 10
Thanks!! Posted: 12-24-03 12:01pm
Thanks very much for that! It was very
helpful!
I'm sure we didn't "overdo" cause I know
what that feels like and this definitely
isn't it. Lol!
That is cool about "floating ovulation..."
had never heard that. I do think i've
got my ovulation pretty close as I have a
fertility monitor i've used in the past
and it hit really regularly around the
same two days so I just quit using it. I
got to where I could tell by other
symptoms...
You definitely answered my questions
though because everything I have read said
I really wouldn't feel any symptoms at all
until implantation happened and the hcg
hormone started releasing. And they all
list things like breast tenderness and
being tired but not cramping... And
supposedly that would be at least several
days away from now...... These symptoms
started the day after and have been going
on ever since!!! It sounds like some
people do get symptoms earlier so I won't
be concerned that something weird is going
on just yet. Dh says I am abnormally
emotional and that I am oozing a weird
smell from my pores.. Lol. I do agree.
I am sweating like crazy and its gross.
Its the full feeling in my belly that
makes me think pregnancy...
I will try an hpt or maybe even go get a
blood test early next week! Yay!
Thanks...
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charlotte
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Dec 2003 Posts: 2
Posted: 12-26-03 10:09am
Bd= baby dancing (as another poster
mentioned...Having sex)
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mm0678
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 13 Location: new york
Stop "trying" Posted: 12-27-03 10:11am
Yes all women are different but I think
it's an old wives tale that says if you
try, it won't heappen. Give up and it
will. This tale holds true for me b/c
for 2 out of now my 3rd (i'm now preg.)
children, I gave up trying, and just like
you I tried everything, then boom within a
couple months I was preg. I like to
believe that when when the "big boss"
above says it's ready then you'll be
ready. I think that all moms will agree
that stressing yourself out over trying to
get pregnant is the one thing that will
cause you not to get pregnant.
Just putting in my 2 cents and hope some
of it helps in someway!
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NicoleF
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 105 Location: canada
Posted: 12-28-03 22:34pm
I know this will sound really weird but I
tried and tried to get pregnant, without
success. I am now around 6 weeks. I
have an extremely retroverted uterus which
makes it hard to conceive. My mom always
told me that after sex, I should try
standing on my head. I did and voila!!
Pregnant. Weird, but true.
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caracook
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 464 Location: Richmond, KY
Posted: 01-02-04 16:14pm
I've had the same cramping and a few other
pregnancy symptoms (not really sore
breasts though) and i'm a few days late.
It always helps boost me up a little when
I read about others who are cramping also.
Gives me hope. Good luck!
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problem (i'm from a land downunder
-australia).
(hows that for a test run of the
lingo???)
