Did anyone here have symptoms within days of conception (before implantation)?

[Kindermama]

Just curious if any of you experienced symptoms long before your baby implanted and/or your first +HPT...thanks!

[corysmilk]

I did.
I knew I was pregnant! but even the blood test said neg. I peed on sticks, nothin!
but I just prayed and had to wait.
My symtoms, my breasts were leaky and my nipples started to darken. I could feel the baby or something low in my stomach, a new sensation, kinda heavy. I felt crampy but it was not period cramps. and I had to pee during sex.

i still had my doubts, but I finally got a positve test on friday, the dr confermed yesterday

[jecombs]

I had symptoms before I got my BFP, but not before implantation. I had horrible heartburn about 5 days before I the BFP (POAS test), which I never get. I also had a heavy, crampy feeling in my uterus.

[meganlisbeth]

i did, but only realized it after the fact. i was STARVING. i ate and ate and ate and was still always hungry!

[MaerynPearl]

I started getting symptoms at implantation (5dpo right to the day... according to my bbt chart) but did not get a bfp until over a week later.

Now I am 15 weeks and everything is just fine.

[Mandynee22]

I did with DD. It was within a day or two of conception and my boobs hurt so bad. It felt like my bra was made from sandpaper, seriously. I certainly wasn't TTC (I was 17) so that wasn't it...
I didn't even think of pregnancy until my friend (who had two kids already) asked when I had DTD and when my period was. I didn't even know when ovulation would occur (I just figured you can get pregnant any time but it SURE WOULDN'T HAPPEN TO ME lol)

[sparklett]

Oh heck yeah! Lower and upper back ache. We KNEW I was pg!

[phoebemommy]

The morning after we DTD with ds I got a spell of totally pregnant style nausea. And then it just went from there.

[MammaB21]

Isn't it pretty much impossible to feel pregnant before implantation? It can take up to 12 hours for the sperm to meet the egg, and even after that your body isn't really recognizing any changes yet.

Sorry, I don't mean to be a downer, but I'd say any symptoms going on before implantation could actually be attributed to ovulation. You can ovulate days after sex and still get pregnant.

I know some people are more in tune with their bodies, and I totally buy it when women say they get symptoms at or shortly after implantation. But before that? hhhmmmm......not sure if I can get on board with that.

I always get symptoms before I get a bfp, at least a week before. But I also tend to get +'s later into the game then most.

[Lauren31]

I was SUPER hot all the time, like I was getting hotflashes almost... that is about it. Also- I did not like the taste of wine or coffee really.

[Midwesterner04]

I did. My whole chest felt very tender and sore (a feeling distinct from my usual post-ovulatory tenderness) just a couple of days after I ovulated and conceived, and the food and smell aversions set in almost immediately. Also, I never break out during the second half of my cycle, but developed several large blemishes in the week following ovulation and conception.

I have seen a number of studies suggesting that the newly conceived baby/embryo releases hormones that make the mother's body more receptive by mildly suppressing immune function and optimizing conditions in the uterus, so perhaps this isn't entirely inexplicable.

[Kindermama]

I found this: http://expectantmomma.com/bleeding-i...e-be-present-2


it says:

Just to be technically correct, HcG is produced as soon as conception happens, rising rapidly, but it cannot be detected at that point. Only after implantation can it be detected in blood or urine. So, HcG will be present even before implantation, just cannot detect it. After implantation, one needs to wait at least 2-3 days for HcG to be shown in any reasonable amount (15mIU for blood test) to show positive. For early HPT (urine test), HcG needs to reach 25mIU which can usually be reached within 5 days after implantation.

[sanguine_speed]

Kindermama, from the same link, it says:

"The HCG hormone starts to be released into the woman's blood stream soon after the baby implants into the lining of her uterus (about 8 to 12 days after conception). "


I too am skeptical. I think any symptoms that happen an hour after sex or the morning after are psychosomatic.

[MammaB21]

Most things I've read on the subject have said that HCG may start before implantation, but a few days after fertilization (not mere hours like some have suggested). Also, that the hcg isn't present in the mothers blood stream until implantation, when it then starts to double. So at implantation hcg levels could be as high as 5mIU. It doesn't say anywhere if that low of an amount (especially when not present in the blood stream) would be able to produce symptoms.

Our bodies are also producing progesterone after ovulation which causes pregnancy like symptoms. I know there have been PLENTY of cycles where I thought for sure I was pregnant, only to have a period turn up days later.

Also, I hate to say this, but a fertilized egg doesn't always result in pregnancy. A pregnancy isn't a pregnancy until the fertilized egg becomes an embryo, which is at implantation.

I suppose anything is possible, and I hope you get the outcome you're hoping for, OP.

[AmyKT]

I knew I was pregnant every single time I ovulated while TTC. However, I have TTCed something like 27 cycles and I only got BFPs for 3 of them. I think people only remember the times when they felt it was true and it actually was.

Now after implantation, yes, I did have some stronger symptoms on the BFP months.

[MacKinnon]

I just *felt* pregnant from about 5 to 7 DPO. I was 11 DPO on New Years Day, and I was quite sure I was pregnant by the day before New Years Eve, which was 7 DPO. I have, which each of my pregnancies, just felt different, a heavy feeling in the abdomen, no nausea or anything, just more of sense that I was pregnant. Don't know if that makes sense? But it was very strong and real to me. I have not had that happen when I was not pregnant, I've had 3 early losses (latest at 7w4d) and 3 pregnancies that have gone on further (I'm 16 weeks today), with each of them, I just KNEW I was pregnant before I got a positive test.

[mrsfru]

I know some people are more in tune with their bodies, and I totally buy it when women say they get symptoms at or shortly after implantation. But before that? hhhmmmm......not sure if I can get on board with that.

Well, if you believe that the whole experience is partially spiritual, you are probably more likely to feel symptoms related to being pregnant when you know *in your heart* that you are (even if they are psychosomatic--they are still completely real to the person experiencing them!). That's how I've felt with each.

Also, I felt each of my 3 good pregnancies (this one being the third, if it stays--I'm only 6 wks) when the fertilized egg moved down the fallopian tube. The pain was horrible w/the first--I was going to go to the ER if my doc didn't see me that day. I thought I had a ruptured ovarian cyst. The pain went away in a few hours. It happened again w/ds2's pregnancy and again w/this one. I'm pretty sure I feel it b/c I have endometriosis and my ovaries often end up attached to the back of my uterus via adhesions.



mrsfru

[BlackSheepPDX]

I'm quite certain there have been only two times in my life that I've had sex and immediately thought "I think I just got pregnant." POSITIVE that I've never had that thought at any other times. And I've been pregnant both times. And the second time is particularly weird, because I was under the impression I had an IUD protecting me. So there's that.

The first pregnancy, I did feel a little queasy within about 5 days for a couple of days, which then went away and didn't come back until I was about 6-7 weeks along.

I don't recall whether I had some quease this time early on.

I'm not claiming any biological factor whatsoever with the "thoughts." But it sure makes me believe in a spiritual connection.

[SunChild]

yes, we knew that we conceived that night. By the morning I knew I was pregnant, and after three days my glands were a little swollen in my neck, felt very tried, very hungry and just felt a little different. Took 2 preg tests 12 days later, very faint line. But I knew I was pregnant, waited a couple more days and found out for sure. After implantation and a bit of cramping, my morning sickness kicked in and all the other text book stuff.
I had the same kind of "feeling" and glandular swelling with my first pregnancy too.

[sanguine_speed]

Originally Posted by BlackSheepPDX

I'm quite certain there have been only two times in my life that I've had sex and immediately thought "I think I just got pregnant."

I'm not claiming any biological factor whatsoever with the "thoughts." But it sure makes me believe in a spiritual connection.

I wouldn't dispute a spiritual sense of believing your are GOING TO BE PREGNANT. But immediately after ejaculation you are not pregnant, spiritually or biologically.