Hi all,
Would love your views and opinions on this. Currently pregnant for the second time feeling lucky and grateful and just taking it day by day. I have a 2 year old toddler. I have only ever been pregnant twice, this one now and in my first pregnancy which resulted in my toddler.
Ahead of conceiving my first child we were trying for 4 months and I was “symptom spotting” constantly during the two week wait. The reason I mention this is because I was hyper aware of literally everything going on in my body and every month I would write down what I noticed so that I could refer to it the next month - I would have pangs / pains / tiredness etc and would think it was because I was maybe pregnant. Then my period would arrive and I’d be like ah it was just normal cycle stuff. The month I got pregnant, my left eye started to twitch from the day after ovulation (I was doing opks so knew the exact day I ovulated and this was 1dpo) and it continued to twitch for 22 days straight almost every couple of hours a constant eye twitch and flicker all day - drove me absolutely mad. But it was such a unique symptom that had never happened to me before. I literally never had a twitching eye before any periods or any month prior to that, hence I was googling it like mad wondering what it was. Google would say likely too much caffeine, but I was on decaf as we were trying, or lack of sleep or stress but I really wasn’t tired or stressed. Some of my googling did suggest pregnancy. When I got a bfp on a pregnancy test that month I put the eye twitching down to that and just thought what a funny weird symptom.
Fast forward a few years and we start trying again, and again the symptom spotting begins. 3 months of trying and every month pangs / pains / tiredness / cramps leave me wondering if I’m pregnant, but just turn out to be a period. Then one month I notice that 1dpo my eye is twitching. Suddenly it all comes back to me and I had completely forgotten that this was my first symptom the first time round. I keep noting it and it twitches every day for three weeks. I test positive on day 15 and this is that pregnancy.
I know everything online says that your body does not know it’s pregnant until your egg implants and begins to release hcg, but I am telling you this eye twitching has been 1day post ovulation and has only happened in my life on the two months that I am pregnant. So surely my eye twitching must be my body responding in some way to the new energy / internal stress of the egg having fertilised? How else would it be explained?
Would love to know your thoughts as so much out there suggests the body does not “know” it’s pregnant until implantation which is typically 8-9 days post ovulation. Whereas this weird symptom has been 1dpo each time 🤔
Anyone else get symptoms before implantation that they were sure were pregnancy / conception related and turned out to be?
Xx