Now I'm even MORE confused!

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Registered: 08-10-2006
Now I'm even MORE confused!
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Wed, 12-27-2006 - 10:30am

Hi again gals! I took my last digital test on Christmas Eve morning and I got a BFN. :(

Then what I thought was AF began like an hour after I took the test!

I'm confused about AF this cycle. Usually AF lasts 5-6 days for me and consistently begins very heavy, then tapers off to medium for a few days and light for the last 2 days or so.

THIS cycle, she arrived with a medium-light flow, saturated only 2 regular tampons the first day (normally I'd go through 4-5 supers on the 1st day of AF). The second day it was medium light again and went through 2 tampons for the whole day again. Yesterday she pretty much stopped and became light spotting which I'm still getting today. I'm only on day 4 of AF and I'm using pantyliners, which is never normal for me. The color was odd too... it was more of a pinkish brown blood and AF is usually dark red to reddish brown.

The s/s of pregnancy that I thought I was experiencing are all gone. The sore, swolen breasts have stopped but I still have this huge craving for Cheetos and I'm breaking out on my face and back, which never happens before or during AF.

What do you guys think? Should I go out to the Dollar Store to get a few tests and retest AGAIN? I've gone through 7 tests already and DH think's I'm nuts! lol

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Registered: 07-01-2005
Wed, 12-27-2006 - 1:34pm
i would wait another week and then test if you still dont feel right because then if you are the hormones will be higher.

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Registered: 12-27-2006
Wed, 12-27-2006 - 5:27pm
have you thought about going to see your doctor? you said that none of the things that are happening are normal for you.
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Registered: 07-12-2006
Thu, 12-28-2006 - 6:05am

First off tell DH they are $ store test's mine grew kinda a custom to it. ( I had a whole drawer full)!


Second Look at your breasts. Do you have a road map of blue/green lines? You can always retest. Or call th DR for bloodwork. AF's can be funny when your TTC. So you never know.


I do hope you get your BFP!

Katie

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Registered: 08-10-2006
Thu, 12-28-2006 - 9:33am
Well, we really weren't TTC. We just happened to BD quite a few times around O. The same things pretty much happened to me when I was preggo with DD. She'll be 6 in February so it's hard to remember exactly what happened before I found out, but I do remember I got what I thought was AF then missed AF entirely the next month. I POAS and got a BFP after I missed AF the second month, but I didn't find out for sure from the doctor until I was 10 weeks pregnant and I thought I was only 4-6 since I thought I had AF the month prior. So I'm really trying to avoid all that, but I guess every woman's body is different and AF likes to sneak in some tricks to keep things interesting I guess. lol If I keep feeling weird I'll POAS in another week. I guess it's all I can do at the moment.
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Registered: 12-26-2006
Thu, 12-28-2006 - 4:34pm
Could possibly be a miscarriage or when conception happens within a few weeks or less you could have a pink tinted "period" from the embryo attatching itself to the womb, but it would only be spotting. Wouldn't hurt to retest using 1st morning urine.
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Registered: 03-02-2004
Fri, 12-29-2006 - 2:21pm
Hi heidi, I think that you should wait a couple of weeks before taking another test, becuase the neg is only going to stress you more (and I know how that feels). Your sudden changes can be considered as an "alarm" however it's probaly too early, so you're probaly going to keep getting neg. I brought a good book, and it talks about brands, its always better to rely more on the known brands. Good luck!!!!