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Tagged As: Early Pregnancy Signs

Question:
Here is the situation my girlfriend. Around Monday-Tuesday (Feb. 7-8) she said she started feeling stomach pains, lower back pain, sore breasts, eating more, plus some pimples. These are all usual symptoms of her on PMS. She also has a semi-bad back, but the lower back pain gets worse around PMS/period time. She also has hypothyroidism. Right now its Feb 10th and she's still feeling the same. I was just wondering if it could be early pregnancy signs?

Answer:
I suppose that nothing is *im*possible, but it is extremely, extremely improbable that your girlfriend would be pregnant. Women are only fertile for a few days per month, roughly midway in between menstrual cycles (counting from the first day of the last period). So unless she has very, very short cycles, having sex on the last day of her period would almost certainly be well before her fertile time of the month. Even if she *had* ovulated right after her period, which is unlikely, it would be very uncommon to experience pregnancy symptoms so soon after conception. She started having symptoms nine days later? I don't think most women feel pregnancy symptoms for at least a couple of weeks. Plus, you guys were using protection. If the condom was used correctly and didn't break, the odds of failure are very, very low. Still, if it would ease your minds, you can always pick up a pregnancy test. I've been telling her all that and in the two years we've been going together, I don't recall a cycle that short, let alone anything less than 20 days. I think one of the reasons she is thinking this is becuase even though she has experienced these symptoms before, she says they feel different. Plus she has a friend who is pregnant and apparently she had (normal?) periods for a couple months from the start of the pregnancy and that's how know one knew. Regardless, my gf's next period is most likely due in two weeks, so we'll see then. If she is being treated for her hypothyroidism and has recently changed her dosage, the symptoms are most likely due to a change in thyroid function. Even if she didn't, my experience with thyroids is that sometimes they just change for no reason. If your girl-friend has normal length cycles (between 25 and 35 days), I think it is highly unlikely that she is pregnant. The most sensitive tests might pick up a possible pregnancy by now if she indeed ovulated around the 29th. I'd go ahead and to one in another few days, just to be sure. These sounds like pregnancy symtoms but depends what condition she has as I have endometriosis and polycycstic ovaries and I use to geta few of the syptoms that she is having.