Are these common symptoms of early pregnancy?

Question

My boyfriend and i were extremely active in the month of december and i don't think we were as careful as we should have been. Ive been extremely bloated and i continue to feel very faint sharp pains and soreness all around my abdomon! I only experienced three days of bleeding in a four day period during my cycle last month. My average cycle usually lasts 7-9 days. I am only about two days late this month so far. I'm always exhausted even when i get a full nights rest and not to mention constipated. Could I be pregnant or are these just symptoms of stress?

Answer 1

10. Tender, swollen breasts
One of the early signs of pregnancy is sensitive, sore breasts caused by increasing levels of hormones. The soreness may feel like an exaggerated version of how your breasts feel before your period. Your discomfort should diminish significantly after the first trimester, as your body adjusts to the hormonal changes.

9. Fatigue
Feeling tired all of a sudden? No, make that exhausted. No one knows for sure what causes early pregnancy fatigue, but it's possible that rapidly increasing levels of the hormone progesterone are contributing to your sleepiness.

You should start to feel more energetic once you hit your second trimester, although fatigue usually returns late in pregnancy when you're carrying around a lot more weight and some of the common discomforts of pregnancy make it more difficult to get a good night's sleep.

8. Implantation bleeding
Some women have a small amount of vaginal bleeding around 11 or 12 days after conception (close to the time you might notice a missed period). The bleeding may be caused by the fertilized egg burrowing into the blood-rich lining of your uterus — a process that starts just six days after fertilization — but no one knows for sure.

The bleeding is very light (appearing as red spotting or pink or reddish-brown staining) and lasts only a day or two. (Let your practitioner know if you notice any bleeding or spotting, particularly if it's accompanied by pain, since this can be a sign of an ectopic pregnancy.)

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7. Nausea or vomiting
If you're like most women, morning sickness won't hit until about a month after conception. (A lucky few escape it altogether.) But some women do start to feel queasy a bit earlier. And not just in the morning, either — pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting can be a problem morning, noon, or night.

About half of women with nausea feel complete relief by the beginning of the second trimester. For most others it takes another month or so for the queasiness to ease up.

6. Increased sensitivity to odors
If you're newly pregnant, it's not uncommon to feel repelled by the smell of a bologna sandwich or cup of coffee and for certain aromas to trigger your gag reflex. Though no one knows for sure, this may be a side effect of rapidly increasing amounts of estrogen in your system. You may also find that certain foods you used to enjoy are suddenly completely repulsive to you.

5. Abdominal bloating
Hormonal changes in early pregnancy may leave you feeling bloated, similar to the feeling some women have just before their period arrives. That's why your clothes may feel snugger than usual at the waistline, even early on when your uterus is still quite small.

4. Frequent urination
Shortly after you become pregnant, you may find yourself hurrying to the bathroom all the time. Why? Mostly because during pregnancy the amount of blood and other fluids in your body increases, which leads to extra fluid being processed by your kidneys and ending up in your bladder.

This symptom may start as early as six weeks into your first trimester and continue or worsen as your pregnancy progresses and your growing baby exerts more pressure on your bladder.

3. A missed period
If you're usually pretty regular and your period doesn't arrive on time, you'll probably take a pregnancy test long before you notice any of the above symptoms. But if you're not regular or you're not keeping track of your cycle, nausea and breast tenderness and extra trips to the bathroom may signal pregnancy before you realize you didn't get your period.

2. Your basal body temperature stays high
If you've been charting your basal body temperature and you see that your temperature has stayed elevated for 18 days in a row, you're probably pregnant.

And finally...

1. The proof: A positive home pregnancy test
In spite of what you might read on the box, many home pregnancy tests are not sensitive enough to detect most pregnancies until about a week after a missed period. So if you decide to take one earlier than that and get a negative result, try again in a few days.

Once you've gotten a positive result, make an appointment with your practitioner. Now head over to our pregnancy area. Also, don't forget to update your profile and sign up for our "My Baby This Week" newsletter. Congratulations!

Answer 2

10 symtoms of pregnancy according to babycenter.com
10. Tender, swollen breasts
• 9. Fatigue
• 8. Implantation bleeding
• 7. Nausea or vomiting
• 6. Increased sensitivity to odors
• 5. Abdominal bloating
• 4. Frequent urination
• 3. A missed period
• 2. Your basal body temperature stays high
• 1. The proof: A positive home pregnancy test

Answer 3

I too had similar symptoms in my early pregnancy. But I didn’t have the bleeding. I was under the work pressure same time. First I too ignored them and thought too it might due to the work pressure. But one of my friends insists of doing the test as I was late on my periods for few days.
So I guess you better to have a pregnancy test than living in a doubt.
Good luck!

Answer 4

May be you just need a good fart. These sound like symptoms of I.B.S. which can be stress related

Your periods are only 2 days late, this can happen with stress but if they r a week or so late do a pregnancy test

Answer 5

I would say that you are probably not pregnant usually you will feel soreness around your boob's and some people feel kind of nauseated you could be having some stress problems but you could take an early pregnancy test if your are worried about it this much

Answer 6

This sounds nuts, I know, but try to look at your urine in the toliet bowl (obviously with nothing else there). Whenever I've been pregnant mine became cloudy. Something about the hormones.

And go get a home pregnancy test. They are always right, even when I've prayed they were wrong.

Answer 7

Sharp pains are not a sign of pregnancy, though sharp pains on one side can indicate an ectopic pregnancy. You should take a pregnancy test w/ in the next couple of days.

Answer 8

you could be. but the best way to make sure is to consult your doctor though its a bit early. they can perform blood test and its very accurate even your 1 day pregnant. but if you dont want to do that you can wait for another 1 week and test by yourself.

sometimes thinking that you are pregnant makes you feel pregnant even if you are not. so just relax (easy to said) and wait.

Answer 9

Could be symptoms of Cystitis if you have been 'overly active', You could be pregnant, or stressed only one way to find out. Go and see a doctor - now

Answer 10

could be either take a pregnancy test use a first response test cause they work a few days before your period is due just in case you have mixed your dates up if its negative then yes it could be stress