To think I might not be pregnant despite a positive digital?

[PeriMenopauseOrPregnant]

I’m posting here for traffic so apologies if it’s in the wrong place!

I’m 39 years old and basically the past few weeks I have been convinced I was going through peri menopause. I’ve been absolutely shattered and another strange thing that happened is my body odour seemed to get worse despite no changes in showering or how often I applied deodorant.

I came off the pill about six months ago and myself and my husband had been using condoms. I had my last period on 30th May but this only lasted a day or so. Admittedly I had unprotected sex just once with my husband on 2nd June.

Last night I developed a really bad headache and dizziness and went to bed early. I woke up in the night still feeling dizzy and had really bad heartburn. The only time I have ever had heartburn is during pregnancy so this is what made me check my dates and realise I was late.

I did a Clearblue digital this morning which instantly came up with “Pregnant 2-3”.

I have obviously booked a doctors appointment but they cannot fit me in for over a week. After reading up I’ve read that you can have a false positive during perimenopause. I’m just wondering whether this is a likely thing to happen or is it more likely that I’m pregnant?

My head is so confused with everything I’ve read so it’s hard to get my head around!

All signs are pointing to pregnancy

So your unprotected sex was during your period? Was that the only time? How long are your cycles normally?

My period was literally a day and a half so had finished by then and yes was literally that once. We’ve not had sex at all since. My cycle is 28 days.

My 39yo, "it'll be perimenopause, you can get false positives from hormones, I'll ask for a blood test" is currently at 26w pregnant and booting me in the kidneys. Just saying 😂

Could well be a true positive

The obvious action here is to go and do some more pregnancy tests!

Looks like it’s quite rare for menopause to cause a false positive so more likely you’re pregnant and it might have happened last month, you “period” was actually implantation bleeding and that’s why it’s showing as 2-3 weeks when it probably wouldn’t show that if you didn’t even have sex until June 2nd as it would take a couple of days to actually fertilise the egg etc

False positives are incredibly rare.

Please do more pregnancy tests and maybe from a variety of brands as that may increase reliability c

I would wager you are pregnant OP.

Echo pp - false positives are rare. Have you done another test?

Your "period" could've been an implantation bleed?

You sound pregnant to me.

It wouldn't have been an implantation bleed if she only had sex after the bleeding though.

But I agree with other PPs, false positives are rare - keep us updated!

Another couple of tests done today and also positive. Still showing 2-3 weeks. Have really bad heartburn and waves of sickness so no doubt now!

I thought i was peri menopausal and my husband and I were using condoms but I now have a 4 month old as a result of being careless once

Hiya, what was the outcome if you don’t mind me asking please? I’m in the same boat as you.