too early for symptoms?

[dorkymanduh.livejournal.com]

I recently posted about a week ago about discharge and if this isn't appropriate, please delete me.

How early is it possible to feel symptoms of pregnancy? I know everyone is different, but if my calculations are correct, I would only be about 2 1/2 weeks pregnant. My breasts, especially my nipples have been extremely sore. I feel very bloated and exhausted isn't even the word to describe how I feel. I never nap because I know I won't be able to sleep at night, but almost everyday, starting friday May 18th, I've been napping atleast once a day, and I have no problem getting to bed at night. I felt pretty nauseous yesturday and today but I don't know if I'm just thinking it in my head because I know theres a chance I could be pregnant... Has anyone heard of getting symptoms this soon?

PS. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow and plan to ask her for a blood pregnancy test, how long do they usually take for the results to come back? 

Thank you!

Comments

[glitterybabe.livejournal.com]

Is it 2 and 1/2 weeks since you think you conceived or 2 and 1/2 weeks since you had your last period? - remember that pregnancy officially starts on day of last period, so you could be further along than you think.

[dorkymanduh.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure.. I just checked on one of those pregnancy tracker websites and it said I was about 2 weeks and like 3 days? My last period was May 2nd but it was messed up because I had stopped taking HBC abruptly.

[asunlitrose.livejournal.com]

Have you taken an at-home pregnancy test?

[dorkymanduh.livejournal.com]

My period isn't due until next week (May 30th) so I didn't want to take it too soon and waste the one test I have.. It's an early response, would it work now?

[kaelstra.livejournal.com]

9 days is really early, even for those tests. I think they work like 3-4 days early, not 9. I'd save your money and wait until you're actually late. It takes awhile for those pregnancy hormones to build up.

[majellen.livejournal.com]

It could be just from having stopped your HBC. However, mentioning it to your doctor wouldn't be a bad idea - the earlier you find out, the earlier you can take the right steps to do whatever it is that you want to do.

[wenchlette.livejournal.com]

I knew pretty much at the same time you're describing.

[jennifer0246.livejournal.com]

with a period on 5/2, you wouldn't have conceived until approximately 5/16, meaning the pregnancy would just be implanting around now. i'd very very much doubt you could be feeling anything at this point if you were pregnant, and this is probably due to discontinuing birth control or other factors.

serum pregnancy tests generally return in 24-36 hours.

[dorkymanduh.livejournal.com]

the screwy part though is that I missed a lot of pills in the last pack before I actually stopped so I think I may have ovulated randomly and theres no way my cycle would be back to normal yet because of how I stopped the pill. I just doubt I ovulated on the 16th when I missed so many pills theres a better chance I ovualted earlier.

[jennifer0246.livejournal.com]

Was it a full period on 5/2?

[dorkymanduh.livejournal.com]

it wasnt my full 7 days, but I bled for about 4-5 days and it was a regular flow but no clots or anything like I normally get. I had cramps also. And I've never had short periods.

[jennifer0246.livejournal.com]

Given a 4 day regular flow, it's extraordinarily unlikely that you would have maintained a pregnancy through that. Because of that, you would've conceived after that (if you're pregnant, which we haven't established), which would make you way to early now to be feeling signs or even to test positive.

What sort of risk for pregnancy have you had since that period on 5/2?

[dorkymanduh.livejournal.com]

I had sex the 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th and 13th without a condom or withdrawal. After that we started using condoms.

[lindsay-lunar.livejournal.com]

is the icon yours? i saw those photos on bmezine last night! weird! haha.

i had those symptoms when i was pregnant. my boobs felt excruciating. take a test before you start worrying though!!

[dorkymanduh.livejournal.com]

yeah thats my boyfriend and i's tattoos haha. we posted them on bmezine about a month ago. thats too funny.

[dorkymanduh.livejournal.com]

Just like I said to the person above, I think I may have ovulated early because that pack that I stopped on, I missed two the first week, two the second and like, five the third week and when I missed those three in a row on the last week, I began to cramp and I bled, but not for my normal seven days, I only bled for about 4-5 days. And I had some adverce reactions when I first got off the pill, like some nausea but it stopped before my period was over.

[sandi1743.livejournal.com]

a blood test can start to detect 10 days after conception, HPT take 14 days at least...the turn around on bloods is usually w/in three days.

[redshira.livejournal.com]

It's unlikely, but then with one of my pregnancies I knew literally the day after I conceived.

[dorkymanduh.livejournal.com]

I've heard that before. Was it just an intuition type thing or something else? I've never been pregnant before so I don't know what it feels like, but I know I definately feel weird. haha. It's probably all in my head.

[2omaha-withlove.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it might just be PMS symptoms. My 1st period off HBC was completely wonky and I felt like garbage pretty much the entire month (leading to much pregnancy worry and woe) but it was nothing--just my hormones going "wtf--we actually need to do stuff again now?".
Fingers crossed that things turn out how you hope them to be.

[dorkymanduh.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was thinking the same sort of thing since it is my first month off.. I've been on and off HBC before and I can't remember if this happened to me before, but we'll see how things turn out soon enough.