Fab 2ww symptom spotting list!
I will add these to the official symptom spotting thread
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My biggest symptom!! Had it with both pregnancies. I am 10 weeks now, and I still wake up some mornings really feeling like AF is here.
I was totally sure my AF was about to start at any minute. My DH had to insist I take a test, because I didn't want to waste one when I was so obviously premenstrual.
Not for me – I had a few odd twinges in my lower abdomen, but nothing at all like my usual pre-AF cramps.
I usually don't have many symptoms of AF coming, but I do get tired and a little irritable (not noticeable by others). I was certain AF was coming because I was both of these, plus I broke out – EXCEPT, I broke out on my back and shoulders, which wasn't the norm! I also had a temp dip that made me think AF was coming!
What was so strange for me was that I had a bit of AF cramping without any of the heaviness or bloating that I normally get with it, & that's what made me suspicious! I tested on the day AF was due & it was +++++, so I'll see what happens next time.
I was totally sure that AF was on her way when my husband convinced me to take a pregnancy test. My bbs were tender, as always – but it wasn't until he said, ''uh, honey, I think they're bigger'' that I thought ... hmmm....
Usually I never get AF cramps until AF arrives. HOWEVER – had them starting 2 weeks (!) before AF was expected, up until about 10w pregnant!!!
When I was pregnant with DD, I totally thought AF was coming. I was crampy & bloated feeling, but AF never came. This time I thought I HAD AF (bleeding for five days but lightly), but it turned out I was pregnant! (Never would have known if I hadn't been temping & the temps were really high.)
Oh yeah, I held off on taking the test b/c I had AF cramps, the kind that have you running to the toilet, tampon in hand – I would have bet $$$ it was here. Then I'd get to the bathroom and ... nothing. After a week of this, I gave in and took the test. I'd read that this happens sometimes, but I was surprised at how *exactly* it felt like AF was here.
I had major AF cramps and all my other AF symptoms with both of my pregnancies. I didn't test this last time until 18dpo, which was 6 days late for me, because I was so convinced it was coming – I was shocked when the test turned immediately positive.
Not for me. I just woke up and realized I had not started the day before ... no cramps, no bleeding no nothing – just a good old hike from the AF fairy!
Oh, yeah! I definitely thought AF was coming. I am almost 3 months pg, and still sometimes I feel like AF is coming. You just never know.
I'm with everyone else. I also thought AF was coming. Actually, I had what I thought was AF for 3 days, when in fact it was implantation bleeding. I just happened to buy some tests via mail order and when they arrived, I took one. Imagine my surprise. To this day, I still get what I think are AF symptoms.
When I was pg with DS, I was sure AF was coming. It took me a week of AF being late to finally say maybe I should take an HPT. With this pg, I knew I was pg. Since having my son, I never get premenstrual cramps anymore, so as soon as I started cramping, I knew.
ME ME ME – in fact, I had gone to my general practitioner to get my allergy medication filled, and he asked me when my LMP was. I was only a day late at the time, which is NOT abnormal for me. My response was, ''I am about to start any minute, because I am cramping and my boobs are sore.'' These have ALWAYS been symptoms of my period. The Dr insisted I take a PG test, and it was POSITIVE!!
I was CONVINCED that AF was coming ... I didn't want to waste a test, but my dh insisted, and I WAS PG!!!!
I was a charter, and my temps were unusually high, so I was fairly convinced that I was PG. I didn't expect AF, but I did have some crampiness.
I had AF cramps on and off until I was 10 wks.
Absolutely!! I ran to the bathroom for 4 days straight just swearing that AF had started, and lo and behold, it never came.
ABSOLUTELY!!!! I was sure that AF was coming! I ran to the potty every ten minutes, armed with a tampon ... but nothing!
Oh, yes – I kept running to check, expecting a big mess, but nothing.
Yup! I was positive it was coming any second! I had my usual PMS symptoms, so I didn't think I was pg ... I had AF cramps until 12 weeks, and get them occasionally at 33 weeks.
Other Early Pregnancy Symptoms
Here are the symptoms I had, and the dpo I noticed them (I kept a day journal)!
4dpo and on – Very tired.
8dpo – Face and shoulder breaking out, very irritable.
9dpo – Temp dip – thought it was over!
10dpo – Huge glob of stretchy white cm.
9dpo and on – Very wet cm, and lots of it!
12dpo and on – Temps up.
Tested 16dpo (2 days late). Frequent urination, food aversions, metal mouth, slight spotting, abundance of wet cm, high temps, lost weight (but no m/s).
Absolutely nothing!
And again, I say BITCHINESS!!!!
More tender than usual breasts. Tenderness didn't go away before AF as it usually does. AF didn't show up on time. That's really it!
3dpo & 4dpo – Butterflies in stomach, but not nauseous; mild cramping (ovulation type).
5dpo – Serious AF cramps (thought I was going to start two weeks early!).
8dpo – AF cramps (low down), sharp pain left ovary in p.m., mild AF cramps just above pubic bone (all across), bloated.
10dpo – Morning temp 37.2 (98.96), serious AF cramps in late p.m., ''who-ha'' entrance much wetter (tip of C soft).
11dpo – Serious cramping R all day (sharp pains running over my R hip to lower back) – fever of 100.9 F. (N.B. Found out later I had a corpus luteum cyst.)
12dpo – Cramps (pain) in R side all day, though milder than yesterday; CF abundant.
13dpo – Tested – BFN – Pain in bellybutton (like someone poked their finger in it), and the feeling continues from there down the middle of my stomach; slight heartburn/nausea.
14dpo – Mild pain in belly button, very tired.
15dpo – Bad cramps (pain) in R side, AF cramps (straight across) in late p.m., belly button pain, got up early 5 a.m.
16dpo – Got up early again.
17 dpo – Pelvic pain continues (1/2 day of work only), woke up at 5 a.m. (2 hours early).
18 & 19 dpo – Pelvic pain consistent (no work, lied flat all day). Slight belly button pain. AF arrived (so I thought), but blood was brown and light. Read up on this site & others regarding menstruation and pregnancy. Woke up early 5 a.m.
20 dpo – Woke up really early (3:30), had to pee! Tested ++++++. (Pain in lower back straight across, sciatica on R aggravated.)
Note: I didn’t chart temps, only CP & CF. CP was high for 5 days (during O), and we BD x 2 during that time – once on the highest day. No egg white this month to go by. CP started to lower slightly after that and firm up, but then seemed to go back up 5 days later, and soften significantly at the tip after 10 days. CF dried up after O, then got very lotiony (though not abundant), with a few creamy days thrown in. When I got AF, didn’t make sense because CP was high & soft still, instead of low & firm.
Frequent urination starting immediately after conception. Sore breasts.
I have my PG signs listed in my journal...feel free to check it out!
Before I tested positive, nothing! I didn't even want to do the beta, but I was in fertility treatment, so I had to. About a week after a positive beta, I had a lot of AF-type cramping (5.5 weeks), and a week after that, m/s kicked in full swing.
Ovulation was somewhere around May 21. Don't know exactly when, because I was not charting. AF was due June 8th or 9th or so. Usually 2 weeks before AF my boobs get sore, but they didn't until about June 6th. Tested afternoon of June 6th; it was negative. Didn't start AF on Saturday morning; decided to test, and it was positive. It was only after I tested positive (within a couple days) that I started frequent peeing and sore boobs. Otherwise, very few symptoms.
2 dpo – Breast tenderness. Increasing cm (including white chunky cm); AF cramping.
9 dpo – Cervix soft and high, vaginal area dark blue-purple.
10 dpo – Tested + with EFR (very faint).
Urinary frequency (bad!) at about 14 dpo, along with AF-like cramping and breast tenderness.
Bitchiness!!
But heck, I still have that!! LMAO.
Period-like cramps, sore bb's, sick to my stomach. That's about it!
Change in sense of taste & smell.
Change in smell/texture of vaginal discharge. (Sorry if that's too gross for some, but I know what ''pregnant'' smells like!)
Annoying yeast infection ... both times for me. Yuckkk!!! That's how I found out the second time.
Porn-star nipples, metal mouth, teenage acne, fatigue, couldn't drink OJ, tea, coffee or alcohol, went off all animal products, cramps, the emotional stability of a newborn ... shall I continue? Oh, yes – and all my ligaments EVERYWHERE went phomf and I looked like a motor way map with blue veins EVERYWHERE, too! (They've still not gone...).
Extreme exhaustion (before I even knew I was pregnant) and sore bb's. At about 6 weeks pg, really bad nausea.
Extremely sensitive smell.
Most of the same as everyone else. A few others were light-headedness (in the shower mainly) and gagging (or vomiting) EVERY time I brushed my teeth. Almost from implantation to delivery!
Metal mouth, sensitive gag reflex, thought I had the flu (mild nausea), different smelling urine, areolas starting to darken.
For me, I had no symptoms whatsoever way into my 2nd month of pregnancy.
The funny thing too is that c/m feels a lot like you are ''leaking'', so for the first 10 weeks of pg, every time I felt something THERE, I ran to the loo expecting to have AF – except that each time I did, there was nothing. So after all this time, I'm used to that yucky ''leaky'' feeling & have learned to wear panty shields every day for freshness & to stop undie staining – yup, c/m stains!! I'm going to have to soak all my undies in Napisan for a week!!
I always used to say on the 2ww thread that maybe if I got drunk and headed down to my local nightclub for a quick one-nighter I would get my bfp straight away, but when you really want a baby, and can provide a stable life for the baby in a serious relationship, there's problems. How does that work?
I begged her for some info and she said 'all i'll say is that you have a problem with your white blood cell count'. Well that was it, in my mind I had leukemia. Turned out it's normal in early pregnancy!
) what a beautiful image! I was a bit bored today so added some old callanetics exercises while I was lying there!
) it's like a kick in the teeth!