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1315039 tn?1274218541

difficulty swallowing?

If I am pregnant, I will be exactly 10 days pregnant on May 21st.  I don't know if this is a symptom or not, but I am having some weird trouble swallowing - like my body or throat forgot how to sometimes.  Is this a sign of pregnancy?  (I am also off my psychiatric medications for tourettes and anxiety - that might also be the cause, but I'm hoping it's pregnancy.)  
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1188979 tn?1311264889
Pregnancy is counted from LMP (last day of menstrual period), so on the first day of your last menstrual period your already 1 day pregnant, by your ovulation day ( may 11) your already 2 weeks pregnant, and by the day you miss your period ( may 25), your already 4 weeks pregnant, (weird, but that’s how pregnancy is measured). So your actually 3 weeks pregnant now. If you are pregnant the blastocist would be implanting it self in your uterine wall between 7-10 days, so it would be occurring between today and Friday aprox, during implantation you may get cramping, like when your period is about to come, at least I did, with all my pregnancies.

Do a Due date calculator on the internet and it will tell you how many weeks your pregnant and when your due date will be, there’s one on baby center.

a urine home pregnancy can work 5 days before you miss your period but its less accurate, so you should wait till the day of your missed period to be 99% accurate.

This is what my EPT says:

-4 days before your missed period: 53%  accurate
-3 days before your missed period: 74%  accurate
-2 days before your missed period: 84%  accurate
-1 day before your missed period:  87%   accurate
The first day of your missed period ( may 25)  99% accurate.

I would advise you to buy the test on may 25 and read the instructions first and do the test when you wake up on may 26 without drinking any liquids and using your first morning urine ( first urine of the day) cause that way the  urine is more concentrated and the HCG levels are easier to detect.

Remember to use first morning urine and read the instructions before doing it.

Good luck and I hope you get a big POSITIVE.
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1188979 tn?1311264889
sorry i thought you said 10 days now.......... so you would be 3 weeks today, How do you know you are pregnant? most urine test dont work till 5 days before you miss your period and you miss your period at 4 weeks, did you take a blood test?
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1188979 tn?1311264889
it may be the medications cause i used to take allot of medications for psicotic episodes, depression and bipolarity and some of them made me feel like that, but allot of does medications may be harmfull for the baby specially this early on,  by the way if your counting your pregnancy from your conception date or the ovulation day you would be actually 3 weeks and 3 days.
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