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cannot control my demented obsession "Am i/Aren't i"

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dementedlady · 22/11/2006 15:14

Have changed my name as just so at my own behaviour!!

For some reason this month i have talked myself into believing that i could be pregnant even though it is very unlikely based on the facts and even though I am not actually trying to TTC.

Its like I decided almost immediately upon the alleged "conception" and have been imagining/obsessing over every physical symptom I have felt every day since even though I know its too early to feel symptoms anyway and even though my obsession means I have noticed that I didn't really seem to experience noticeable ov this month. But b/c I am not TTC and usually don't pay much heed I am aware that every feeling is probably very normal and something I feel/experience every month just usually I don't pay attention. I am not due on until 1/12 but have bought cheap tests and have actually tested more than once (negative of course!)

The thing is that my logical head tells me there is no way I am pg. But I can't stop obsessing about it and have wasted the best part of the last week thinking about it!!! I have hardly got anything done, its quite awful. I mean i pretty much KNOW that I am highly unlikley to be pg but can't control myself anyway?.

I mean I would probably be happy if I was pg but in some ways I know its not quite the right time for us to have another child yet - so in that case, why am I acting like a loon?? I have not told DH of my madness and nor will I (unless of course I got a positive test - look, there I go again!!)

I have decided I never ever want to have unprotected sex again anywhere in my cycle if this is what it does to me. Why am I acting so demented? And why is this demented behaviour so common in otherwise sane women??

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Frenchsmallfry · 22/11/2006 16:03

Sounds like you would secretly be delighted if you get a positive test.

Good luck with what ever the out come, but try not to let it take over your life. You'll know in a week or so.

BTW I don't think you sound like a loon, I think you sound like 99 percent of women when they have got someting on their mind.

dementedlady · 22/11/2006 16:09

Thanks , its dreadful esp as I know how unlikely it is to be positive. Of course I would be pleased, why else get so wound up about it. But it makes no logical sense to obsess.

i can't tlak about it to anybody in RL hence have used MN as an outlet!

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NAB3 · 22/11/2006 16:10

We once did 7 tests in 3 days! The following month it was just the five but she is now 3!!

Booboobedoo · 22/11/2006 16:11

I was like this when ttc (and it sounds like you are ttc - even if DH isn't ).

Keep us posted.

dementedlady · 22/11/2006 16:12

7 in 3 days? Thats impressive

I know I am not alone in the obsession it just seems particularly strange to obsess over a slim chance when not actively TTC!

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dementedlady · 22/11/2006 16:13

Booboobeedo - you may have hit on something there! Think my subconcious needs a swift slap down into place - if it makes me imagine I am pg when chances are very very slim it says something about my intentions!

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NAB3 · 22/11/2006 16:15

I was once convinced I was PG when we hadn't even done anything.

dementedlady · 22/11/2006 16:20

Giving birth to the second messiah no doubt

TBH, I think I am just one small step up from that . Its emabarrassing but nevertheless I persist...

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typhoonsmum · 22/11/2006 16:23

I convinced myself I was preg to. Had a dodgy batch of tests in work and if I peed on the stick it was postive, If I dipped (As the instructions said) it was negative. Got myself so worked up that when my period arrived I was convinced it was implantation bleeding. Only a blood test (which was negative) would put my mind at rest.
SO no you aren't going mad at all

dementedlady · 22/11/2006 16:41

Thanks Typhoon
PMSL that you took it upon yourself to invent your own testing method

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