Period while pregnant?

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Registered: 08-10-2003
Period while pregnant?
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Mon, 09-29-2003 - 7:53pm
Has any one ever had a period while being pregnant? Last month I had bad cramps

and I hardly bleed at all. This month I started to cramp on one side, And bled a little.

It's very thin, like watery. My breasts are swollen, nipples sore to the touch, I have alot of blue vains all over them. My areaols are huge and dark. I don't know what is going on with me! I'm kinda scared!

Can you, or someone give me some input?

Thanks, Angela

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Registered: 04-15-2003
Mon, 09-29-2003 - 9:33pm
Yes. You can have periods while pregnant. I would go and get a test and take it. Let us know how it goes.

Tammy

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Registered: 08-07-2003
Tue, 09-30-2003 - 11:46pm
Yes it is very possible to have a period while pregnant. When I was pregnant 3 yrs ago...I had had a period the week before I found out that I was pregnant. I had no idea that I was. I thought that the ER doctor was messing with me when he told me. I would get a hpt and take it. If it comes out negative and you still have no period by next week go get a blood test done. Some people can't test positive on HPTs...such as I. Good luck and let us all know what happens.
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Registered: 05-22-2003
Wed, 10-01-2003 - 11:02am
With my first child i had AF for 3 months. Needless to say i didn't find out until I was 4 months along. My periods were lighter than normal, but i wasn't planning so i can't remember how light. What a surprise for me and my doctor, to see a fetus, when we thought i was only a month along!!!!

So good luck, BABY dust to you!!!!!!!
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Registered: 09-12-2003
Wed, 10-01-2003 - 11:18am
Hi! After reading your post, I got curious. Did you have any symptoms at all? What made you decide after 3 months that you wanted to test? I'm curious because last cycle my period was lighter and stranger than usual, but the same length. My body has been so bloated and i have been getting weird pains in my lower abs, but i don't know if they're gas or not. lol, tmi but oh well. I don't remember being so bloated the first week after af, but maybe I always am? I don't have sore bbs or anything else. I'd really like to hear your story though!

Thanks a lot

Jessica

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Registered: 05-22-2003
Wed, 10-01-2003 - 1:34pm
Jessica, well one month i finally missed my period, that being around 4 months. So i had a GYN appointment coming up, and requested a pregnancy test. The doctor didn't even get around to the test, during the first minute of the exam, he said you are definitly pregnant. They did an ultrasound, and found that i was 4 months along, instead of a few weeks as i had suspected. I didn't really have any symptoms that i can recall, i got the "stomach bug" a couple of times. lol I also felt gassy, like little butterflies flying around in my belly, that was actually my son moving around! My periods were lighter, but the same length of time. I wish i could give more details, but my son is now eight, so my memory is a bit fuzzy. How many cycles have you had feeling pregnant, is this the first? If in doubt buy a HPT, or make an appointment, that worked for me! Recently i've had a dull-sharp pain over my left side, but i know it's not due to O. I'm hoping this month is the month! I wish you all the luck in making your family more complete, you'll be in my prayers.

Danielle
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Registered: 09-12-2003
Wed, 10-01-2003 - 2:57pm
Hi again! Thanks for your reply.

First of all, I guess here's more about me and my situation. I got married august 15th of this year, and we're both in college and working. so this would definetly not be planned, but lovingly accepted!

Anyway, I started feeling like this around AF, with a weird 'pain' in my left and sometimes right sides of my lower abs. I tested the day of I think that my af started, but no dice. I really felt like the tests were wrong, but that might be just because I want it so much. Do you think they just could've not detected it yet? I know that could be the case, but I don't want to go out and spend the money unless I have to. I just don't know what else would be causing the ab pain. I wouldn't call it pain, just kinda twingy. I had a kidney infection about 2 weeks before af, and was on antibiotics with my birth control patch, so it's possible...but this definetly isn't a kidney infection this time. it's really low on my belly. Let me know about the HPT thing, i'm curious if i should just wait till when af is due to try it. but i guess if it's something else it would be good to know now. Best of luck with TTC, you will also be in my prayers!

Jessica

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Registered: 05-22-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 10:55am
Well honey, It does add to the story when you say that you recently had a kidney infection. But you are having the pains lower, when are/were you supposed to O? Also did you just come off of the birth control patch? Well, I'm no doctor.... but I would say wait it out until your AF is supposed to show up. My aunt never tested + with all 8 kids, but if AF doesn't show and you get a -, please go see your doctor. And if your pain gets stronger see your doctor! I agree it doesn't sound like an infection, that would hurt in your back more than anything. I just hate reading that little stick, I always get depressed! Hopefully one day it will have two lines! :0) So, i'm in the don't waste your $ until it's nessesary catagory. I hope this helps, keep me posted.

Danielle
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Registered: 09-12-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 11:41am
I just had af last tues-sun, I definetly shouldn't be o'ing already. and no, I'm still on the patch, i have been since march of this year. I tested again last night, BFN...so I'm getting kinda worried about it. I was so depressed last night too...my body hasn't been acting normal so I thought for sure I was...now I'm just worried I have a cyst or something. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt this morning, so maybe I'm just nuts and my body is trying to make me think I'm preggers. I'm calling my dr. today to see what they think. In any case, I'm so tired of thinking I am and then crying myself to sleep...my husband just doesn't know what to do with me and it hurts him so much because he's not ready for it yet and feels like he's holding me back. I wish he was ready...anyway, thanks a lot, hope everything goes well for you.

Jessica