...To use a hpt. I don't want to waste a hpt when af isn't due for a week, but I do need to know as soon as possible whether i'm pregnant or not.

Hpts say as early as 4 days before your missed period. My understanding is that is based on a guess of when implantation would have taken place. I ask this because I had some pink spotting this weekend, which matches many women's description of implantation bleeding. Which would have put implantation at 2-3 days ago (surely enough time for hcg to start to show up, right?).

I have also had a number of symptoms.

Nausea.

Fatigue.

Back/side aches.

Mild pms-type cramping.

Mood swings.

Blue veins prominent on my breasts.

Itchy breasts.

Now, any of these things can be explained by other things. However, the bleeding and all of them together a whole week before my period, when I don't usually have many pms symptoms, I am wondering/worried that i'm pregnant. Is it silly for me to go ahead and take a hpt tomorrow, or should I wait until the weekend for the 4 days prior?

Under any other circumstances, I wouldn't worry too much, and just wait until I was late, but the timing here makes surety of the essence. Also, the timing of the bleeding and the timing of the last time I had sex is what leads me to believe that it may be implanation bleeding.

I got 2 tests for $7, so it's not that much money wasted, but i'd still rather not waste too much on tests right now, especially since i'm really not sure what I want the result to be yet.

Jennie