It is too early to test yet but I think I may be pregnant. This is TTC#2 and I am basing this assumption completely on what I recollect from nearly 4 years ago. Usually, post ov I get massively sore breasts and very emotional and teary or feel very flat.
This time (same as last time I was pregnant I think?) I started to get tingly breasts (which I get as soon as I ovulate) so we tried that night, the next morning I wake up and the tingling has gone. So symptom wise I don't have sore breasts (which I ALWAYS get usually and I am never pregnant), they have grown a little bit; headaches - lots of small fleeting ones (which I NEVER get usually), my emotions are stable and I am happy. The chocolate I ate tonight tasted like the 'smell' of dirt so I couldnt eat it. It is day 6 after ovulation.
So, what do you think? A few friends I asked about symptons (in 2wks after ov) were all completely different to me - one friend got exactly the opposite way around to me. I know everyone is different but I would be interested in what symptons everyone got in those 2 weeks post ov (when it's too early to test).
I'm not sure Michelle but I hope you are!! Maybe do a HPT in a few days time? Then try again in 3 days after that? When is AF due?? It may be way too early to tell!
AF due in 8 days. i am mainly getting excited because I never get the symptoms I get. My pre AF symptons start at the moment of ovulation. I know that sounds precise but I do a ov test to make sure it is positive and the same set of symptoms happen every time. This time, none of the usual! It was been the same for the last 20mths. With my first baby, my HPT at day 14 (post ov) didn't register. I wonder whether the preg hormone is slow to kick in with me?
Mich, first of all, congrats on those symptoms. I remembered when I fell pregnant (pregnancy #1), I had similar symptoms before my AF was due. You should try a HPT when your AF is due and if it's not positive, try it again 3 days later! If you try it now, it may be too early to tell! Anyways, wish you all the best!
When my AF was due, I did a home pg test, at my husbands request (he had made a joke of "maybe your pregnant, you should do a test"), and it was negative. 3 days after AF was due, I was at the dr for another reason, I told her I was late and she said most likely aren't pregnant, but we'll do a pee test anyway. We did and 2 lil lines came up! I was in shock!
I know it might be hard, but make an appt to see your doctor around the time AF is due to arrive and ask for a pg test/ blood test. I don't think the hpt's are really accurate. Some are supposed to be able to tell you within a week of ovualtion. Obviously, the one I used wasn't good enough to tell.
Thanksj for your replies, it is really nice to get some encouragement. Ren, are the pregnancy tests dr's have better than HPT"S? I know the hospital my DH works in are pathetic (always wrong) but they might be better at GP's. Blood test is good idea.
Just to update - very very mild AF type pain 5 and 8 dpo. today 8 dpo, and breasts just started to enlarge and get vagely tender. this is definitely a weird cycle for me. Mind you, if I am not pregant and these are going to be my new PMS symptoms, they can stay because they are not bad at all! Last night and the night before I took a bite of my favourite obsession (ie chocolate) and it tasted like dirt. It was so bad I couldn't eat any more. Chocolate never tastes like dirt (not that I eat dirt but tastes like the 'smell' of it) it is delicioius. One more reason to feel hopeful.
Thanks once again for writing in, it really helps me to get through the agonising post ov days.
This is great! I am wishing for my food to taste like dirt now!! hee hee
it is all sounding good!
I feel nothing other than temp and 7 dpo bleed. We can be frustratingly waiting together.
Best wishes
Jodie, Hippy Mum
When I look back at the few weeks after ov I remember having this strange smell in my nose and a metalic or sugary taste in my mouth I kept thinking there was fire near by but it was just the strange smell in my nose. I also find that food tastes very intense and I got turned off strong smelling or tasting foods.
I took my test at week 7 so I got a full positive but I have heard some ladies getting a P as early as 10 dpo but maybe they had their dates wrong plus it's difficult to know exactly when you ovulate unless your testing isn't it?
Hi TIff,
I can't say i taste or smell anything quite like that. Time will tell. I am only day 23 and i am going to do my first test tomorrow morning as it will be 12DPO and my fingers are crossed.
I think if you are charting and your cycles are quite regular etc and you can test with the good on pee on the stick trick...god i love it...you can have a pretty good idea when you ovulate and at least when you ovulated!
Best wishes and thank you
Hippy Mum
My AF is due today but I have had the most painful breasts!!! Very sore and enlarged! I have NEVER had this before AF is due... could be more aware of AF symptoms though now that i am not on the pill (3mths ago went off pill) so my body is back to normal perhaps but yeah, who knows... be so exciting if I was pregnant!!!
And i've been terribly moody!!! Snappy!! But that could also be PMS!!!
My breasts were always sore from the word go. I did HPT before my period was due with the first and second times, but a week after with the third time.
Good luck.
Cruemum.... can you still get really sore big boobs just before AF also? I'm sooo moody yesterday and today too.... i don't think I am pregnant yet again it's possible as we didnt use anything a couple of times the other week!!!!
ohh that's one of the symptoms that stood out i had such sore boobs I even felt a lump in both almost like a gland and I was actually going to see the dr once af came just to make sure I didn't have double breast cancer also lots of vissible veins around my breasts from increased blood supply.
I can't wait for you to do the test so I can imigine you must going nuts!!
How brilliant for you, i hope you are pregnant. My SIL went off the pill and had a heap of symptoms, but then the second month she was pregnant. So there were only one month to compare for you. She too had realy sore boobs, bloated and a guess just a heightened hormone effect as her body was gettign used to functioning normally again.
Good luck to you and hope you find out soon. Waiting is a killer. I am day 25 and a few days togo. TEsted this morning but neg.
All the best
Hippy MUm
You may well be pg, only time will tell. I'm 40 and have found throughout the years my symptoms throughout my cycles have changed so for years I might have sore boobs prior to AF then I would change and not get them for many months or years, the same with headaches prior to AF. The one thing I do know is that for the past few months of TTC (since a m/c) I see every little change as a possible pregnancy when I know in my head it's too early for it and I've had heaps of pg like symptoms. I've even had nausea, light headedness & sensitivity to smell and not been pregnant. Try not to get your hopes up until that extra line actually comes up on the stick.
It is interesting to hear everyone's symptoms. THey are all so varied and sooo much like PMS. Update as follows:12 dpo past ov. preg test today neg. Been getting lots of period type pain, really mild on and off since day 8 - feels like about day 2 -3 of AF cycle. I keep expecting AF to be here or at least spotting but nothing. More CM than usual. This is one weired cycle. I have never got period pain symptoms before AF comes so this is all new. Boobs still very sore. They are getting worse. Usually by now breasts are reducing in tenderness and almost normal by 13/14 dpo.
Cranky this morning because last night, tired, have to get teaching lesson plans in by midday before we leave on plane tonight and still have to pack and do 101 things! Never enough hrs in the day to do things with a little DD. I am going to put a DVD on for her soon, have a cuppa and get started. Sounds like I wont have time to think about if preg or not. why does the 2ww have to send me round the twist. would be much easier if I could just be pregnant.
Anyway,
might not write here while away as I can't remember my password (my computer does it automatically). See how it goes. Next preg test Sat if no AF before that.
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to you!!!!
also lots of vissible veins around my breasts from increased blood supply.
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