I can totally identify with your concerns! Generally my symptoms come and go, but it has happened to me twice that I felt that ALL symptoms disappeared at once.
The first time was at about 8.5 weeks. I had been having ever increasing nausea and exhaustion, etc and suddenly I woke up one morning feeling completely fabulous - all negative symptoms completely gone. Even my boobs seemed smaller. I also had a tiny bit of brown spotting so of course was in a panic. After worrying for a few days, I moved my first OB appointment a couple of days earlier - and all was fine. I was SO convinced it was a missed miscarriage, I was in shock that all was fine.
The second time was at 16.5 weeks. This time, my longer term preg symptoms (stretching feeling in lower pelvis, dizziness, and tiredness) disappeared overnight. I got very worried again, so much so that I hired a fetal heartbeat doppler - like you, I thought I can't be running off to the GP or OB each time I feel concerned! I did keep in mind that it can be very hard to find the heartbeat, so if I couldn't find it, I wasn't going to jump off a bridge iykwim - but fortunately I found it quickly. Now I listen every couple of days
When it happened the first time I googled a lot, and found websites where literally scores of women were saying "Yep, that happened to me too!" and really only a tiny fraction of those said "and it turned out to be a missed miscarriage". So I knew it was a common fear that most women have, but also it?s up to you how you deal with it. There is nothing wrong with seeking confirmation, or hiring the doppler (you'll need to wait another month or two for that), but it can help to know that such fears are to be expected.
I only had symptoms for a few days after I found out I was pregnant (around 4 weeks) - growing boobs and a bit of nausea. All this suddenly disappeared and I was really concerned. The nausea completely disappeared and my boobs went down in size a bit. I had my 12 week scan about 2 weeks ago where I was convinced I would get bad news, but all good! Turns out I am just lucky! Hard to believe though!
Thanks very much for your reassuring replies. I never imagined I was such an anxious person until I got pregnant! I am going to chill out, relax and my body will work it all out. Scan due mid October, I will wait for that and stop being so silly! I feel like this is going to be the longest pregnancy in history!
Unfortunately, this happened to me about week 9 and the scan at week 10 showed no heartbeat - so it was a mmc
However, there are so many ladies who's symptoms disappeared and they were fine. I was asking the same questions. If you're truly concerned, go to the doctor. Alternatively, just wait until your scheduled scan. You may be fine, you may get different symptoms. Unfortunately (and this is harsh) - there's nothing you could do at this stage to prevent a mc, so may be better just to have faith that things are ok until proven otherwise.
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