Having to wait a week to confirm if pregnant

[confusedgirl123]

Next appointment for blood test is in a week but I feel that is too long to keep someone waiting

Yes. Sharp shoulder pain is caused by pressure on the diaphragm, often by blood leaking into the absominal cavity by a ruptured fallopian tube.
If you have it get straight to a and e. It is an emergency.

@owlinatree yes it was for me, just above my collar bone

If you think the NHS is unreasonable to make you wait one week, pay for a private test.

When ttc, I had one spell where I was 10 days late, negative tests, negative blood test at the drs. No idea why (I’m usually very punctual) it was just one of those things.

When I had ivf, I paid about £40 at an ivf clinic to have my hcg levels checked for pregnancy, and the results were same day. I have zero medical training, (so take this with a pinch of salt!) but if I’d had multiple negative hpt, I’d probably go on the night out, or pay for a private test to crystal clear one way or the other!

If you think the NHS is unreasonable to make you wait one week, pay for a private test.

I agree

@GreatWesternValkyrie
Any idea how I go about that? Would depend on cost etc as we aren't that well off. Have just bought a house so money is tight atm

Coming off or changing contraception can have some weird effects in your body and hormones, I have quite a few of your symptoms, not pregnant - I have IBS. If you don’t have a positive result before your night out I would just go, I would probably drink less than usual but I’d still enjoy myself.

@Bigpizzalover
I thought that IBS would have been more likely. When the doctor said pregnancy it's got my hopes up as I didn't think I could be and don't really want to harm baby if I am pregnant

YABU. I have to wait 2 weeks for an app for swabs to be taken. I also have to start provera to bring on af. I just know af is going to arrive then so I have to put off the swabs app FFS, all because they can't see me sooner, but that's just the way it is with our services as overun as they are apparently.

I need all my tests done to a particular timescale for treatment purposes but it's just not going to happen so it's all going to take 2-3 times as long.

All your symptoms also point towards an ovarian cyst, and that would be diagnosed via an ultrasound and blood tests too.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/ovarian-cyst/

I went to a private hospital and I had my blood test recently it was around £60 per test plus some blood taking fee. So around £80. You’d times that by 3. I imagine you can get it cheaper elsewhere. But it isn’t cheap. And this is all so you can go and get pissed.

Not every gp would order these tests when you’ve only been off the pill 3.5 months. Perhaps you should centre on the positives not the negatives. I would assume you’re not pregnant tbh.

@Yambabe
Thank you, I'll look into that

@Eliza9917
Sorry to hear this. It's so hard that the nhs is so stretched.
It annoys me that We all pay so much in taxes and yet don't have great experiences when we do use the nhs

Hiya, can you not still get tested at the chemist? Least that way there would be another pos/neg result to go by, esp. if you are concerned about drinking alcohol?

@Weepatchesoflove
How does that work? Do I just walk in etc?

I took a sample in and they’d tested there and then. It’s most likely the same test i’d do at home, but I am rubbish at stuff like that and wouldn’t have trusted whatever the answer was, so this was the safer bet. I got a written bit of paper and took it to the doctor. They never retested and just took that as a given from the chemist.
I’d either phone or google your chemists to see if they do it, it was an independent chemist, but I’d imagine most would do it?
Good luck though, trying to conceive can be tough going.

@Weepatchesoflove
Thank you, may do that. as you say if another more formal test is negative then it feels as though the likelihood is even less

The first thing I thought when reading that list of symptoms is gluten intolerance or IBS.

Why do you only have a night out once a year, at 27?

Any idea how I go about that?

Do a google search for private pregnancy blood test or similar and your area to find a local private clinic or hospital?

@bakedlikeabun
I'm not really bothered about drinking and going out ( feel as though it's wasting money ) but it's a work night out and I tried to leave it until the last minute to book it as we are ttc and wanted to be sure I wouldn't be pregnant

@GreatWesternValkyrie
Thank you

Whatever her reasons, if the doctor thinks it's necessary to do a blood test to check you're pregnant, I wouldn't drink on the night out, even if regular POAS tests are still coming back negative. If you are one of the very few who just don't get positive tests despite being pregnant, it might still not show up and you'd feel awful for drinking heavily without knowing the results of the blood test. I know it's disappointing but it's just one night - it doesn't seem worth the risk to me.

That's fine as long as you have some other hobbies/leisure activities for yourself, once the babies come you will have less opportunity so it's a shame not to develop interests while you can - going out doesn't have to mean drinking
A first response on the day of the event is what I would do personally.

@bakedlikeabun
Yes we go out other than that just not to drink and this night out isn't the kind of night to go on sober