WHAT ELSE COULD THIS BE?!?!?

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Registered: 11-05-2003
WHAT ELSE COULD THIS BE?!?!?
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Wed, 11-12-2003 - 2:23pm
I've had 4 hpt's come up negative and 1 dr's office urine test come up negative but I still have some pregnancy like symptoms - on and off tender bb's, fatique, extreme fullness after I eat, waves of nausea, and especially heartburn after I eat (I NEVER get heartburn! This is the first time I've ever had it!). My LMP was 09/16 - but I'm extremely irregular - I know if I would have conceived it would have been on 10/08 -- but I would have thought it would have shown up in the doctor's test if I was pregnant (that was on Monday)! I'm sooo confused but I know with my other kids it took longer for the hcg to show up in my urine - do you think I'm grasping at straws!!! I'm going insane here not knowing for sure! I'm not under any stress and I didn't think stress could cause heartburn!! Any comments, suggestions, etc. would be appreciated!!! Thanks for letting me vent!!

Tweedle
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Registered: 10-27-2003
Wed, 11-12-2003 - 3:48pm
I know we've talked and we're in the same boat .. so any suggestions you get would be helpful to me as well. You asked me in the other post about my symptoms. They have stayed the same...not better not worse.

I have a very full feeling to the point of nausea after i eat. It is worse depending on what I ate (plain vs. fried). The gas (burps and others) is bad somedays. I have occassional pains in the bb's (sides and underneath - sort of like growing pains) I had spotting for a day (10/18) and now cm is a little slicker than usual. I have what I affectionately call "accidental naps" about twice a week when i sit down on the couch in the early afternoon (to read or watch tv), I pretty much pass out and sleep for 3 to 4 hours. This is after getting a lot of sleep at night and having difficulty getting up in the morning. I have had a couple very mild dizzy spells. Sorry for tmi but i've actually noticed that my bm's are more regular. I feel like i pee more (but that one may be in my head!) A couple of mood swings that nobody else would comment on, but seemed unusual to me. Oh and a runny nose (no stuffiness though) for the last couple weeks.

It's funny that you mentioned heartburn, because I haven't had that until last night. I had a relatively plain meal (wouldn't normally give me heartburn) a couple hours later I had about 10 minutes of the worst heartburn then it just disappeared.

I feel like you...i'm very confused. I would love to know what is going on and why all the urine tests are coming up -. This would be my first so I have no comparison.

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Registered: 10-28-2003
Thu, 11-13-2003 - 1:53pm
I'm in a similar situation. I'm about 14 days late for AF. I've had a very faint positive on FRE last Tuesday, that BFD saw. But yesterday dr's urine test came up neg. I did an ept this morning and it was neg! I woke up mildly nauseous this morning. I've been feeling cramps in the middle of my abdomen today. I'm beginning to think I have pseudocyesis (imaginery pregnancy).

http://my.webmd.com/content/pages/2/3608_822.htm?lastselectedguid={5FE84E90-BC77-4056-A91C-9531713CA348}

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Registered: 11-08-2003
Thu, 11-13-2003 - 4:45pm
I am somewhat in the same boat. I had light spotting in Oct, but I think I am preggers. I am gonna wait till my next cycle is due and then test. My friend had negative blood tests when she was 4 weeks pregnant, so you may not be producing enough hormones yet.

My current symptoms are bloating, slight nausea (but I have NOT vomited), and peeing.


Edited 11/13/2003 4:47:04 PM ET by latinagangsta

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Registered: 10-28-2003
Thu, 11-13-2003 - 5:10pm
Isn't it a bad thing if I am not producing enough of the hormone? Won't that lead to complications? I'm so worried.
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Registered: 10-19-2003
Thu, 11-13-2003 - 5:24pm


Hey girls sorry that it has been a few days, I thought that I would take sometime away from this page so that I could clear my head and see if maybe I was focusing to much on the idea of being Preg. But you know what I can not get these signs that are happening if they where just in my head and not real. I have taked hpt and all neg. I have also taken 3 blood test with a quantative test and even though each one has produce the hormone HCG, they still cinsider me neg. I have a doctors appt. on friday SO HERE IS TO A DEEP HEART FELT PRAYER THAT WE ARE PREG. AND ALL THE TEST HAVE JUST BEEN SLOW ON PICKING UP ENOUGH OF IT. To tweedle and Secret and sent a post to Peg the Midwife and ask about the low levels of hcg, she said that either I was never preg. (unlikly) or that I was MC (but I have had no spotting or Af yet) and then the other hopeful better possiblity. That It was still just to soon to pick up a good amount yet. I do have alot of sypmtom though.

Mine are

Heartburn( more at night,never had it accept when preg)

tired

can not sleep at night (Ifall aslepp fast and then toss and turn all night)

larger BB and sore nipples off and on(I have had a breast reduction 7mo and not much feeling until now.. Weried)

The only food I seem to be eating is pumpkin seeds (4 bags since tuesday)

weird taste in mouth( mainly at night)

Peeing alittle more(but have notice that It seems to be a little darker and stronger smelling)

As far as CM (very dry no cm for about 3 weeks now)

Cervix (has gone pretty high almost as if it is disappearing, and mushy,oh and more tilted towards my sb.)

Hot feet (I feel as if they are only swollen at night and I feel like my my body is always warmer) really Usually for me I freeze if it is 80 dregrees. So to turn the heat off altogather is really weird for me.

Also if I pesh down on my stomach near my pevlic bone it feels like water moving around except for alittle soft bummps that moves.

Oh I think that I am crying at commerical or Ophra or dr. phil.

And noises irrate me so bad rite now.

Ok sorry so long but that is all my signs

LMP 9/17

O date I think was around the 3or 4 but could of been as late as the 12 or 13

No signs of AF.

Meshell

 
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Registered: 10-09-2003
Thu, 11-13-2003 - 5:56pm
Hello, I just took a blood test on 11/11 and my levels were low but the doc said that was normal b/c i am so early in pregnancy and wanted me to re test 48 hrs later which i did just this afternoon and are awaiting the results to see if my levels are rising like they are supposed to. So it isn't necessarily a bad thing if your levels are low right now b/c you could be very early in pregnancy but if they aren't increasing like they are supposed to then there could be concern, so don't fret yet, and good luck to ya, here's a big bag of baby dust to you ***~~~***~~~... :)

Nicki, EDD July 18, 2004