Hi, another new person here. I have had a good read through the forum but I'm still confused as to what I should do next.
I have two children already, who are 20 and 17 and I'm 38. I'm pretty sure there's a small person trying to make a home on my insides but it's too early to test.
I have a 24 day regular cycle, I'm due to have my period next Wednesday but I seem to have all the signs of being pregnant already.
It's been so long since I actually have been pregnant that I seriously can't remember what it was like before.
I have had headaches on and off all day - don't usually have them at all - had them the past few days, nausea, my tea tastes icky (which is an absolute tragedy as I love my tea!), boobs have got slightly larger, montgomery's tubercles are bumpier, I cried when I saw a picture of a dog (I don't usually cry when I see pictures of dogs and it wasn't even a sad dog), I had the most awful cramping in the womb area last week - no bleeding, though. I also feel like my brain is made from porridge but I do have M.E. so that's not really a whole lot different from usual although it's a different sort of mushy thought process.
Now, having checked the calendar, I did indeed have sex on the 11th June which would seem to correlate with ovulation. We haven't been using any contraception on purpose, mainly due to my age and the fact that I was on Depo for years - my last jab was August 2010 and my periods came back in December, they've been bang on every 24 days since. At the same time we haven't purposefully been trying to conceive, I don't ever wait hopefully to see if I'm pregnant or not so I don't think this is down to stress of "simply wishing I was" because right now, I wish I wasn't. If I am! If I am, then it's staying but it does make a few things a bit more awkward.
Am I still too early to test, even though I have all these symptoms? Does it look like I'm pregnant? I'm very confused. Sorry about the long post, thought I best get it all out there.
ETA - Just realised I'm due on Monday, not Wednesday. Seems that I have forgotten how to count.
I have two children already, who are 20 and 17 and I'm 38. I'm pretty sure there's a small person trying to make a home on my insides but it's too early to test.
I have a 24 day regular cycle, I'm due to have my period next Wednesday but I seem to have all the signs of being pregnant already.
It's been so long since I actually have been pregnant that I seriously can't remember what it was like before.
I have had headaches on and off all day - don't usually have them at all - had them the past few days, nausea, my tea tastes icky (which is an absolute tragedy as I love my tea!), boobs have got slightly larger, montgomery's tubercles are bumpier, I cried when I saw a picture of a dog (I don't usually cry when I see pictures of dogs and it wasn't even a sad dog), I had the most awful cramping in the womb area last week - no bleeding, though. I also feel like my brain is made from porridge but I do have M.E. so that's not really a whole lot different from usual although it's a different sort of mushy thought process.
Now, having checked the calendar, I did indeed have sex on the 11th June which would seem to correlate with ovulation. We haven't been using any contraception on purpose, mainly due to my age and the fact that I was on Depo for years - my last jab was August 2010 and my periods came back in December, they've been bang on every 24 days since. At the same time we haven't purposefully been trying to conceive, I don't ever wait hopefully to see if I'm pregnant or not so I don't think this is down to stress of "simply wishing I was" because right now, I wish I wasn't. If I am! If I am, then it's staying but it does make a few things a bit more awkward.
Am I still too early to test, even though I have all these symptoms? Does it look like I'm pregnant? I'm very confused. Sorry about the long post, thought I best get it all out there.
ETA - Just realised I'm due on Monday, not Wednesday. Seems that I have forgotten how to count.
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