Scared :(

[DropsofJupiter123]

Hi everyone,

Has anyone experienced anything similar before please as I'm freaking out. I posted about having a period that arrived 10 days early but it started as just brown spotting (sorry tmi) for 3 days. I then had 1.5 days of normal heavy flow and thought my period had arrived, then it went back to brown spotting again - in total it lasted 7 days which my periods normally do, but obviously this was much lighter.

I've also been bloated and constipated (sorry tmi again!), really tired and had bad headaches. Last night I touched my lower tummy and it felt hard and I noticed a big lump on the left hand side, thought it was because I've been struggling to go to the toilet but it also felt like a lymph node. Today it's really sore and I'm getting worried, no clue what's going on.

I've rang my GP and they said someone can give me a phonecall this afternoon. Has anyone experienced anything similar and can share with me? Sorry if this sounds daft just got myself worried and DP is away for a week so being alone isn't helping 😔 xx

[Caminante]

I'm glad you can speak to someone today for your peace of mind. They might want you to go in so they can feel your abdomen.

Could be a lot of different things but hopefully nothing sinister.
Easy to say but try not to worry.

[DropsofJupiter123]

Thanks for your reply @Caminante , trying to stay busy until they call me. Hoping it's just coincidence that I had spotting and now have that swelling which could be for loads of reasons.

Thanks for posting back x

[Caminante]

Good plan staying busy! Have a look at some of the threads on Classics, that's always a good one.

I know how easy it is to get into a state of panic over something health related, it's happened to me a few times but always luckily turned out to be nothing serious at all. I think it was worse when my kids were little.

I don't know how old you are but when I got to 35 my body started doing all kinds of strange things that had me really worried.

[liliesofthevalleys]

@DropsofJupiter123
Did the GP ring you?

[DropsofJupiter123]

@liliesofthevalleys they did thank you, unfortunately not til 6pm so it was an out of hours locum Dr and they made me an appt for Thursday morning to go in and see a GP in my surgery 😊 fingers crossed they won't be too concerned 🤞

Worked in a hospital for years and it's just made me a nervous wreck if anything! X

[Claireshh]

Is there any chance you could be pregnant? I had spotting, headaches and constipation the week I found out I was pregnant. Could the lump be to do with constipation?

[DropsofJupiter123]

Hi @Claireshh 😊 I did wonder this too from the threads i was reading here! I did a test the day the spotting started (no idea why as it would have been way too early lol) and then did another test a week later when it ended, which was 4 days ago now. My "actual" AF would have been due yesterday and I have one test left so I was thinking of doing it at the end of the week 🤔

What do you think? Did you test positive early on or did it take a little while for the hcg to build up?

Yep I'm also wondering if that's what the lump could be but it doesn't seem to be changing much even when I do manage to go😔 x

[liliesofthevalleys]

@DropsofJupiter123
Im not much help on the medical side unfortunately but I'm glad you've got a GP appt.