anyone notice this

[CeeJai]

i am normally very bad with pms at this time of the month. this time i have had strange events all month. first my cramps are on the opposite side. that never happens unless i  had conceived. the mild very dull cramp that i did have felt nothing like normal cramps i'm use to . i will have a pimple or two at least. nothing! my mp was due according to my cycle sept. 4, today is the 2nd and i saw a little spot of pink blood. my breast aren't even that tender they normaly ache. i can't even cry from the idea that i am probably not preggie.  don't know how to feel. this is even more confusing. and one more thing has anyone ever had a temp that stayed the same for at least 3 days this close to mp without any drop. normal temp is 97.7 my temp didn't even dip? What is this? HELP

[40smama]

It's so hard, in fact virtually impossible, to detect pregnancy based on symptoms alone even if they are ones a woman has never had before.  It seems to be the nature of the beast - to have all kinds of different pregnancy symptoms that also mimic PMS.  The only way to know if you're pregnant is by doing a hpt which could be done now.

About the temp, don't really know a whole lot about that.  I would think that not having a temperature dip would be a good thing.  The thing I would do is check out the fertility forum - even go to the archives and do some research or post a question.  Best of luck! - jen

[gillianl]

I have had pregnancy symptoms every month for the past 25months, hot and cold sweats, appetite increase, brown discharge, tender breasts, backache, mood swings, tired etc and i have never fallen pregnant.  I don't believe pregnancy is easy to detect as some say, if you think you are pregnant a test would show by now but if you are having pink spotting it could be a sign your period is not far away, best of luck

[TreeFrog7]

PMS symptoms and pregnancy symptoms are virtually identical - especially in how they can be different from "usual"!  I've been in your boat many many times. In fact, even today, I'm expecting AF, have PMS-brain, but AF isn't coming, and I'm thinking, are my bbs sorer than usual? Or less? Was that a spot yesterday? Why am I so tired? Hmmmm...

Glad the Big Guy gave us the strength to be women!

[CeeJai]

i got up this mourning and my temp was98.4 fertilty friend says that i have a 38% chance of being pregnant. ?? i haven't had any thing like a flow of blood only two spots of the pink stuff once yesterday evening and once to day after doing the laundry. my period is officially late hpt never work for me until i'm 8- 10 weeks anyway. thanks for the comments. it's nice to know treefrog that someone else is sailing in the same boat. from my chart on ff it seems like they are tracking me at 8dpo hopefully i'll get lucky and the 98.1 days of temp were implantation dip.

[TreeFrog7]

OK, now I have AF, so I'm out of the running in this month's lottery. Best of luck to those who don't have AF yet. I'm back to pampering myself in advance of the next try.

[traceynjar]

I feel the same way you guys.  I'm having the same brain as you with wondering if this is pre-AF symptoms or if it's pre-pg symptoms.  I'm 11 dpo I'm having trouble tracking bbt cause I've never really tracked it before the last two weeks or so and I've had some random pelvic pains the last week or so, my cervic is low and hard so everything is pointing to and telling me I'm not pg, which is truly disappointing to me, but I guess it's never over til AF shows and she's due in five days so we'll see.  I have no children and really want to be pregnant this time I'm scared I'm running out of time.  I know 38 years old doesn't mean it's impossible but I worried it's going to be more difficult than I expected.

[CeeJai]

well i'm still having just a mild spotting and i don't even need a pad or anything so for if i didn't see it when i went to the bathroom i wouldn't know it was there. no cramps no change in my breast but every once and a while i have a stinging feeling in my nipples.??  I dont know but tomorrow will tell it all. today would be implantation day if i have conceived. the 4th would have been the due date for AF but it normally starts 2 days early but it's a full flow when it's normal from the 1st day. so can you see why i'm still confused!
LOVE and Super Woman strength to all of you who stay on the rollercoaster with me.  keep posting  one way or the other.

[CeeJai]

ok ladies anyone else having light spotting. I had a couple of heavier spottings but nothing like a normal period. i don't mean to be repeating this over and over but, i looking for answers. my period is always heavy by the 3rd day normally the 2nd. the discharge i'm having now is thicker it's not runny nor are there any clots? i know i have been prone to implantation bleeding with another pregnancy but I didn't know what it was at the time. my daughters 15 i barely remember that. i had her with no pain killer it wiped out my memory.lol
can anyone share their experience if you  don't mind, i'm grasping at straws.

[Pum]

Periods can vary month to month due to lots of reasons.Travel, weight loss, illness etc. It's a pity hpt don't work for you. I would still try one if I were you.