What were your EARLIEST pregnancy symptoms?

[LittleOne76]

I'm wondering if you "knew" you were pregnant before you could test after the 2ww? What signs did you get?

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I didn't realise I was PG for 2 months as I was seriously ill with an unrelated condition at the time (which took all of my attention away from my PG symptoms and missed periods). However, I did have a lot of symptoms (which I only realised in hindsight were PG-related). They included:

A sense of smell like a demented wolf/vampire. I could smell people before they arrived at my house, and couldnt go NEAR my husband's wardrobe (suddenly smelly), my study (suddenly smelly), anyone who'd ever smoked (suddently smelly), or lillies (used to be my fave smell but suddenly putrifyingly bad!)

Suddenly needing a wee whenever I left house (and sometimes weeing self in bookshops .

Period-type pain (which I thought was PMT for 2 months - durrr).

Breasts so tender and swollen I thought I'd been clubbed round the chest (again I mistook this for PMT).

Nipples like agonising bullets.

Wretching all the time (but not actually being sick).

No periods (should've been a dead giveaway).

Demented cravings for citrus fruit (a whole bag of clementines a night).

Complete aversion to my previous vices (caffeine, nicotine, alcohol).

....yeah, so you think I would've twigged I was pregnant really, but no. When I found out at 8 weeks I actually fell off the loo in shock!

And I'm a health professional!!!!

Hot flushes and exhaustion. Aboslute killer tiredness.

I have always known when I am pg before I test, I just feel different. dont ask me to explain, I cant, I just feel ..... different! But the exhaustion this time confirmed it atleast 5 days before my AF was due.

I know what you mean about the health care professional thing. I'm a medical student and my pregnancy wasn't planned. If one more person says to me that I should know by now how it all works then I will slap them! No contraception is 100% effective after all!

went off coffee
DS spoke about "his baby"
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Incredibly sore boobs a week before my period was due. Both times.

Not TTC and not expecting to get pg so it waqs completely not on my radar at all, but the weird stuff I noticed before it crossed my mind I could be pg were:

• Really intense sense of smell, I went into a meeting and said 'ooooh who brought chocolate, and nobody had, I could smell the cocoa body butter which a colleague across the room had used the night before; also I had an open top car, roof down, and could smell the local chippy and the indian restaurant almost half a mile before I passed them on my way home from work!
• Red meat bender, used to pop out for lunch with colleagues and end up ordering steak!
• Extreme tiredness, needed two naps durig my two yr old niece's birthday party.

The last one set me thinking and I did some date calculations and though, oooops, you know what this might be, and it was!

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Snap to the incredible sense of smell. I must have been about 3 dpo when I suddenly started berating poor dh about his deodorant and how much he stank of soap, to the point it was making me gag. He wasn't wearing any deodorant, had showered that morning and run out, and as he'd been at home all day he hadn't bothered, but I smelled soap so strongly when I went near him. He even tasted soapy when he kissed me. Also could not stand the smell of any air freshener, polish, shampoo, hair wax or any other cleaning products. Less than a week later I was in the bathroom and dh opened the fridge, a horrible smell hit me so hard I vomited. He couldn't smell anything but on investigation there was a pot of double cream a couple of days over it's best. I thought it was rancid, dh couldn't smell anything but conceded it might be a bit off and binned it. I could smell the fruit bowl from anywhere in the house. Dh calls it my spider-sense :) at 16 dpo we had an appointment to see a fertility specialist as I'd been told I was infertile a few months before, I tested as requested just to rule it out and it was positive. I so didn't believe it I did eight more tests. Then I realised the super smell had been something my mum had mentioned. I've had hyperemesis since then and very high hormone levels all the way through so maybe that's it?

Is it possible that during early days of pregnancy your boobs hurt n then in a few days time they stop hurting is it normal in pregnancy

Aching back sore breasts nausea

I had a funny, sweet taste in my mouth, my Mum said, 'Ooh, are you preggers?!' 😂 Didn't think much of it. Also felt stupidly tired and had very sore boobs!

A metally taste in my mouth, both times. With my second I just knew what that meant!

I didn't know for ages with ds3, although I know now that the utter exhaustion and weepiness was not just down to hating my new job! With ds1 what I thought were pms symptoms must have been early pregnancy symptoms. With ds2 I had been very actively TTC for a year and was checking my cervix regularly and noticed that it was soft just when I would have expected it to be hardening had I not been pregnant.

With DS I was shattered, had unbelievable fatigue,

With DD I just knew, I was saying to friend and DP I was pregnant, a BFG didn't show up till I was 6 weeks

With this pregnancy I was so tired and sick, I wasn't even late for my period just took the test to rule out pregnancy. Was shocked when it was positive!

I had a twitchy eye for two weeks. Googled 'twitchy eye' and it auto-completed to 'twitchy eye pregnant'... apparently it's an early symptom! Took a test a week later and it was positive

Implantation pain. I thought I was getting my period, even though I don't suffer much from cramps... It lasted a week before Google broke the news to me

Heavy, veiny boobs.
Acute sense of smell. Could smell menstruating from across the office so had to walk away from mensturator.
Could not stand the smell of my wee, smelled of male dog piss. Yuk.
Odd sense of calmness which would come over me in situations which normally stressed me out. Like traffic on the way to work.

I had weird unexplained red marks appear on my skin. And bigger boobs.

We only clocked what was going on when i started being sick.

Why is a zombie thread on "Discussions of the Day" ?

Bit desperate . . .

I thought I'd add my experiences, but found out I have done so already . . . six years ago!

I felt a bit dizzy.

Stomach cramps. Like period ones only really bad. I was mentally preparing myself for a really terrible period!

Oops. That'll teach me to rtft

ZOMBIE THREAD

My absolute earliest was excessive wind and farting (lol, nasty I know.) I knew I hadn't changed my diet and nothing about my lifestyle had changed so I couldn't work out why I was CONSTANTLY full of gas (my belly was just rumbling with gas non-stop) all day, and it was going on for a few days before I thought I'd check when my last period was. My period wasn't late at this point, there was still a few days to go.

So the next thing was the missed period.

After that it was just relentless hunger.

Tingling nipples, bloating snd stomach cramps

Oh yes I forgot stomach cramps as well was another really early symptom (along with the wind). Also I got shooting pains occassionally through my breasts :S

I had episodes of sweeping nausea...but thought I couldn't be getting symptoms as was too early to even know I was pregnant. I was...and the nausea continued!