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Q: I Feel Pregnant...
asked by: notyourstar on August 8th, 2005
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Hey everyone!

Here's my story: i'm 21 and I had sex for the first time about a month ago and it was unprotected. I got my period a few days later but now thinking back, it was shorter and different than usual.

The past 2 weeks i've been feeling all sorts of things going on in my body that i've never experienced before. First, my stomach felt strange, like I had been doing crunches the day before but I didn't do any. I've been nausious the majority of the time i'm awake. But when i'm nausious i'll be thinking about what I can eat when i'm feeling better. When I do eat it seems like nothing agrees with me. I have difficulty falling asleep at night and when I do I wake up often. I'm also extremely tired throughout the day. Sometimes when i'm standing still I feel lightheaded and i've been getting headaches lately too.

I'm due to get my period in about 6 days. Usually about 10 days before my period every month, I go on an eating binge and I feel extremely bloated. This month I haven't been eating as much and I don't feel as bloated. My breasts are itchy and feel bigger which I don't remember feeling ever before. I keep getting this strange sensation in my lower stomach and on the left side.

I guess my biggest "symptom" is that I just feel pregnant, even though I don't really know what it feels like to be pregnant because I never have been before. There's just something going on inside me that i've never felt before. I don't know if i'm just imagining it all or if its all pms; but something is definately different in me.

What do y'all think?
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fatfamily02
replied on August 8th, 2005
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You could try a preg test. But they dont always come out the first try--even if they say earliest possible results. All woman are different, all pregnancy different. If it dont come out try again in a week. If still thinking you are go to dr ask for blood test for hcg it comes out faster and more accurate. My daughter and I dint show the hcg until 7 weeks pregnant. (3 weeks after missed period)
my daughter took like 5 tests all together. She knew she was though.
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notyourstar
replied on August 10th, 2005
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I just took my 3rd pregnancy test. Another negative. I'm due to get my period on saturday, so I guess I just have to wait and see. But I hate waiting, part of me really hopes that I am pregnant (i know that probably sounds crazy because i'm only 21 and single, but I know I can make everything work out). I've already thought about a lot of stuff like how i'm going to finish school and work things out.

Everyone thinks that i'm just psyching myself out about it but i've never felt like this before. A lot of people think that it's probably a lot of stress and whatnot that's causing me to feel this way.

Someone assure me that it's not all in my head...
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xandibits
replied on August 11th, 2005
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Same
I had the same symptom the binge eating habit before my period, accdg to my mom its hormonal I guess but it sucks!
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fatfamily02
replied on August 11th, 2005
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Like I said in my case it took until 3 weeks after missed period for test to come back pos. My daughter too, just 2 years ago. She took 5 tests in all, but she knew she was no matter what the test said. I think we know, but sometimes we try to convince ourselves we are not.
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