If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it

[Honey990]

Hey girls, wondered if you could help me.

I am really really worried I’m pregnant. I would be 18 weeks and I’m not showing (can still suck my tummy in), all I have down there is a tiny belly of fat, which I can grab and poke. I have also had periods for the last 3 months and I have done about 30 pregnancy tests and they are all negative. I have also had an trans vaginal ultrasound done (but this was to check the placement of my copper coil) and I asked her if it looked like I was pregnant down there (she did a pelvic ultrasound too) and she said no. I would have been 11 weeks then. She laughed and looked at me like I was crazy. The measurements came back of my uterus and they were basically the average size of a uterus so I thought it was fine. She didn’t do an ultrasound on my tummy however, because I was there for the coil.
BUT I just cannot get it out of my head that I could be pregnant. I check my stomach everyday.
It just won’t leave my head, my body is telling me that I am. My nipples have really darkened recently (this really concerns me as I have no clue why this would happen, I had a panic attack today about it) and I have pains in my left and right sides of my stomach. It also feels like something is moving down there, like at night sometimes I’m so bloated and I can feel so much movement in my stomach I’m kept up all night. It feels almost like a stitch but I’ve done no exercise. I feel popping and bubbling down there and pressure on my insides. This becomes worse when I drink fizzy drinks and dairy. But it doesn’t happen all the time, it happens mainly at night. I constantly feel full as well.
I removed my coil and now I’m 3 days late on my period but I think that’s just my body getting used to the change. But I still panic that could be because I’m actually pregnant.
I also haven’t had sex since like the 10th May, it’s the 3rd of July now.

This may sound crazy, but I am going INSANE. Like I have panic attacks thinking about it and my heart goes crazy and I feel sick.
I read somewhere that cryptic pregnancies are a thing where you get negative results and don’t show so people don’t find out their pregnant until they deliver.
I just need to know for sure I’m not pregnant and I don’t know what it will take for me to change my mind.

I meant 10th of MARCH not May

I think you should see someone anyway as the symptoms you list should be checked out even if not pregnancy.

I had this fear years ago; kept taking tests even though it would have had to have been an immaculate conception. A bit of digging showed it was a common side effect of my contraceptive pill. When I raised it with the family planning clinic, they just nodded and swapped my pill. Never happened again.

Has the coil been fitted recently? Could it be messing with your hormones in some way? Anything else that could be confusing your hormones?

I do feel your pain, my thoughts were so convincing!

If you had a scan at 11 weeks a viable pregnancy would be very difficult to miss on a TV scan

As above, an 11weeks pregnancy would have been seen on a TVS

Well you might not be pregnant but you should speak to a Gp about these feelings you've been experiencing in your stomach, bloating, discomfort etc . And your anxiety as well.

Well I got the coil out but before that I was on the progesterone only pill for 3 years which stopped my periods entirely. So it could be an affect of having my periods come back.
Not in a rude way, but I’m so glad you’ve also been through it! I feel so crazy and I just want to feel normal again

Yeah you’re probably right, it’s hard to see people atm because of the virus though. I’m having to have blood tests because of a cyst they found on my ovaries so I’m hoping they will let me do a pregnancy blood test at the same time

@TeddyBeans

If you had a scan at 11 weeks a viable pregnancy would be very difficult to miss on a TV scan

They said they could only go so far because of the coil, but I presume it would have shown up anyway if they could get a clear imagine of my ovaries... I don’t really know how transvaginal ultrasounds work

This sounds like it could be IBS. Years ago I had exactly the same whenever I drank milk or after evening meals especially - my stomach would be tender, it kept 'moving' and I felt pains in the sides. I had a lot of testing and was eventually told it was IBS. Maybe try some Buscopan from a pharmacy and see if that eases it when you get these pains? Either way, I definitely definitely do not think you are pregnant so try to look into what else could be causing these feelings.

In the nicest way possible, you are not pregnant and should see your GP about your symptoms. An 11 week fetus would be visible on TV ultrasound

You are 100% not pregnant. You dont have any symptoms that suggest you definitely are, and any symptoms you are experiencing could be attributed to a number of other physical or mental health conditions. I think a good place to start would be to see your GP because this sounds really distressing. I am sorry to be so blunt but I work as a mental health practioner and it is not helpful for anyone to be anything other than completely clear with you. That said, the distress and anxiety you are experiencing is totally real and with the right kind of support or treatment you should be able to recover and move past this as this sounds really disruptive and difficult to deal with