Diet and Health FAQ

Tagged As: Your Pregnant

Question:
Hey I was wondering, of you ladies that knew you were pregnant within a couple of days, how did you know?

Answer:
I was going to say that 2 days ago my partner and I had sex using no birth control. I woke up this morning (about 36 hours later) with the most rotten feeling in my stomach and it has been 14 hours and it still has not gone away. I'm not sure how to describe it but I know every person has experienced this at one point or another, like if you drank bad milk or something...you get a weird stomach acid taste in your mouth. Generally speaking I would normally just blow it off as my tummy not liking something I ate but I am now on such a good food diet due to food allergies that I cook absolutely everything for myself and the only commercially made food I have each day is milk (I checked, the milk is good for several more days) and peanut butter. I also don't eat cheese, eggs or meat so I know it is not one of those that went bad. It just can't possibly be the food and if it were I don't believe it would be lasting this long (it has gotten worse as the day has gone on, I have eaten, drank water, and even had some of the pills I take to help with digestion). I am not looking to get pregnant so I know I am not inventing symptoms (I know your body can reproduce symptoms or make certain things last longer if you convince yourself hard enough...I know a girl that tested positive when she wasn't pregnant even) but after I rule out food poisoning I can't think what else would be causing this other than pregnancy. I don't have any flue symptoms and feel fine otherwise. So many women have told me they knew immediately so I thought it didn't hurt to ask. Is there any pregnancy test I can take without having to wait for my period to start? I really don't want to be stressing about this because last time I had a pregnancy scare I actually skipped my period due to stressing about my period not coming lol. I don't know much about my fertile times since I'm not trying to conceive but I do believe I am ovulating right around now as my period finished about 2 weeks ago. 1. Sore boobs, 2. Having to urinate frequently. Starting maybe 7 to 10 days after. he's right. Symptoms wouldn't start this soon. Technically, the egg hasn't even implanted yet. Symptoms usually don't start till just before your period is due. Perhaps you're getting the flue or a stomach virus. Nevertheless, there *are* women who know as soon as they conceive. They just *know*. How? Beats me, I didn't figure it out until I was 8 weeks along with my first. :P I would never tell anyone, you cannot experience symptoms because I can't rule out the possibility that they just might feel things I can't feel. Nevertheless, I worry for someone who is not looking to get pregnant, and yet has unprotected sex 2 weeks into her cycle, knowing very well she might be ovulating. That's a recipe for an unwanted pregnancy. :/ (Me, I got pregnant the day my period was due. Not that it came because my cycle was atypical that month. So I can use that as my excuse, ha ha.)