Hi everyone,
This will no doubt be a long post and I've never started a thread before so I have no idea what the abbreviations are. Please bear with me though as I really need some advice!
My Husband had a vasectomy around 6 years ago but I have the strangest feeling I could be pregnant. Whether it's my brain wanting me to be or something is actually going on I'm not sure but this is the scenario so far.
Me and my hubby don't have sex often, it's been 2-3 times in the last 2 years. My last period started on the 6th December (ish) and my cycle is roughly 32-33 days. We had sex on the 28th December so working it out on an ovulation calculator I would have been ovulating around then.
My periods are always heavy, I change super tampons every 4 hours. Around the 6-9th of January I had around 3 days of a really light pink spotting going on. I didn't need a tampon or a pad, I would just notice it on the tissue and so I just thought it was a light period.
I was laid in bed a couple of nights after and that's when it hit me to look at the dates from December and I wondered if it could be that I was pregnant and I'd had implantation bleeding?
The realisation then sunk back in that it couldn't be possible as my Hubby had his vasectomy 6 years ago. He went back for one of the sperm count tests a couple of weeks after and his test came back inconclusive then the second came back OK.
He has 6 children from a previous relationship, all grown up now as he is 18 years older than me (I'm 28, he's 46). So I know he had strong swimmers before he had the vasectomy.
It's not the 6th of Feb and I would be due on now, usually I just have a bit of pink then my next trip to the loo and 'bam' there's the period. But not this time. I've had a tiny bit of light brown discharge yesterday and a bit today now it's gone. I've never had any sort of brown colour before so it was a bit odd.
I've been looking online at the symptoms, I don't have tender breasts which can be a main one. I have the odd bit of nausea, headaches, I had insomnia throughout January and extreme fatigue, still having some of that at the moment, over the last week I've had problems with my gums being really sore and inflamed...I've now just learnt that's another symptom!!! Also have neck ache really bad and things smell more or make me feel a bit sick.
I've done 2 HPT's, I did one around the 13th Jan and then a second about 2 weeks ago, both negative. I also had a horrendous panic attack (I suffer from anxiety) a few weeks ago and the ambulance had to come out to me as I had some chest pain. After the initial tests I was sat with the doctors/ambulance crew members and the woman looked at me and asked me if I could be pregnant as some of the symptoms I was experiencing were very similar… that made me think even more!
I always thought I would never want kids, that I wouldn't be able to cope because of my own anxiety issues etc. but now at 28 I think I need to be honest with myself as I really would like to have one. Obviously if I'm not pregnant it's something I can discuss and look into with my hubby but for now I want to try and work out what's happening.
So after that long essay, my questions are, is it possible for my husband's vasectomy to fail after all this time? With the symptoms I'm having could I be pregnant?
I don't want to bother any doctors with tests because I feel the likelihood is so minute because obviously he's had a vasectomy so they'll probably think I'm stupid and wasting their time!
Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!