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I'd I didn't know I wasn't pregnant I would swear I was!

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Goingcrazyimsure · 01/02/2022 13:53

Ok I want to start this with this: I know I'm not pregnant. I have taken several tests in the past few months and all are clearly negative.

But I have all these weird things going on that make me look and feel pregnant!

It's awful. So late last October my nipples started being so painful I could hardly breastfeed my baby. The docs treated for mastitis and thrush but nothing worked. It eventually improved around Christmas but feeling is still not totally comfortable. This coincided with a bout of period cramps which then went away. I was exhausted and miserable and over the next two months seemed to get one thing after another, colds dizziness, UTI, conjunctivitis etc. You name it I had it. Christmas nearly finished me off! I spent a couple of days just in bed. Then in early January I suddenly felt better.
Throughout this I took various pregnancy tests and PCR covid tests and all negative. I wonder/ed if it might be to do with periods returning as I have not got them back get since my baby was born a year ago. But nothing has materialised. I had a bout of bloody discharge a 3/4 weeks ago which j was sure was the start of something but again nothing since.
Now the weirdest thing is my stomach. Over the last two weeks it has got bigger and is rounded and often really hard - especially under the belly button. I have lost 2 stone recently so it seems weird! It is also rounded and hard at the top alongside my ribs just like it would be in pregnancy. But I am not pregnant. We have literally only had sex a handful of times, the last one being mid- September and I even took a final test yesterday just to out my mind at rest! I was honestly starting to imagine I could feel something moving I was so stressed about it! I feel better now I'm sure I'm not knocked up but what could this be? Are these all just symptoms of a period returning? I don't remember this after my first ...
Could it be my fibroids?? I also have PCOS? Could that be linked?
I have requested a doctor's appointment but I'm pretty sure he is just going to say I am going mad and imagining things!

Thought I'd see if anyone has any ideas?! 😩

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Tippexy · 01/02/2022 13:57

Please ask your GP to run some blood tests.

Doggymama123 · 01/02/2022 14:00

I have heard of people before in similar and it turned out they were pregnant but their hcg levels were so high the tests couldn't register them so were showing negative. Mostly happens with multiples I believe.

Having said that you are 100% doing the right thing to speak to GP and get them to do blood tests as this is the only way you will find out for sure xx

Goingcrazyimsure · 01/02/2022 14:05

Ok thank you! It's good to know I am not being silly in asking for someone to investigate for me! I'm sure I'm not pregnant - I was so so sick with the last ones I can't imagine not being violently ill with it again!

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Milamight · 01/02/2022 14:14

Lots of illnesss can cause those symptoms. I felt the same in December, genuinely convinced I was pregnant, bloating, swollen breasts, fatigue, run down etc. Last month i ended up hospital and turns out I had a weird virus affecting my liver. Still in hospital now and recovering. Listen to your body, always worth getting checked out. X

Goingcrazyimsure · 01/02/2022 14:20

@milamight gosh I hope you are ok! How awful for you. Yes will def push to get checked out now xxx

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Blossomandbee · 01/02/2022 14:21

I was going to say it could just be crazy postnatal and breastfeeding hormones (I had loads of weird symptoms and illnesses when I was breastfeeding) but the bloating is a bit more concerning.
It could be a number of things, I definitely think you need some full bloods taking and a pelvic/abdominal examination.

Milamight · 01/02/2022 14:22

I am fine now, recovering but I should have gone sooner! I'm sure you are fine but always best to be checked out 🙂 my partner was pushing me for weeks to go to the dr but i just thought my periods were coming back (stopped the pill to ttc few weeks prior) x

Goingcrazyimsure · 01/02/2022 22:51

Ok good advice all round! Just waiting for the docs to get back to me with an appointment for tomorrow ... It's all so weird! 😱

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Conc1 · 24/02/2022 20:58

@Goingcrazyimsure

Ok good advice all round! Just waiting for the docs to get back to me with an appointment for tomorrow ... It's all so weird! 😱
Hi OP, any updates? Hope you're well.
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