COULD I be pg? Might nead a slap please

[XmasBun]

Ok am incognito so no guessing please!

I'm feeling that I might be pg, BUT I do really, really want to be, and I know how suggestible I am, so I could be imagining it all.

First off, it was just the one occasion of unprotected sex, and it was on day 5 - yes 5 - of my cycle. Admittedly my cycle is short (usually between 23-26 days) but that's not really very likely, is it? Anyone who knows all the maths, please hit me with the hard facts. I can take it!

My symptoms are lower back pain, period-like cramps (but for the last 10 days, way too early and for too long to be period pain). light-headedness, clumsiness, extreme fatigue (not so bad now, but for a few days I was wiped out) and slight spotting and very faint nausea - and just "feeling" pg. All familiar from last time. But last time we TTC for nearly a year, and I imagined I was pg every month!

I can test around the 21st. Have already, like a fool, done a test which was BFN, but I know too early and totally pointless...

Has anyone got pg in such a situation? Or is it a big slap that I need?

well, anything is possible. if you only have a 23/26 day cycle though do you know when approximately you ovulate?

it's very early to have simptoms though - so you could possibly be imagining sorry. I would wait until 21st and do a test.

as an aside, have you been to gp re your short cycles?

My cycles were the same length as yours but I didn't ovualate at day 5. It is possible but not very likely that you are pregnant. I also had more symptoms when not pregnant than I did when pregnant.

I 'forced myself' on DH mid period, which stopped, then a couple of times afterwards and am waiting till Friday to test, but I have a few signs I might be too.

I think I normally ovulate about 14 days before period, ie about day 10, but the cycle does vary. My main sign that I'm about to ovulate is that I'm well up for it, which I was! But I don't know in technical detail, eg I haven't ever done temping or any of that.

If it has happened it would have to be a case of the sperm hanging around for a while, waiting for ovulation. Of course I will be testing, but I want to dwell on it right now!

Let's hope we'll be in it together, LadyH&I!