When Cramping Starts, is it all Over?

[GaleTX]

I'm on CD30/13DPO. Last night, mild cramping started and it's still there this morning. No spotting or anything. Are cramps a for-sure sign AF is about to make an appearance? My temp went up this morning, so that is throwing me off a little (I would have expected a drop in prep for AF). Here is my chart. Any thoughts would be great.

[~Charlie's~Angel~]

No, cramps are NOT a sure fire sign that AF is coming.

I had such bad implantation cramping with DS1 it woke me out of a sound sleep and I thought I was MCing. I called my OB the next day, and he said it sounded like i had a cyst that popped while implanting.

I also felt like I had a mild period during the second month of both my pregnancies.

[Maurine]

That looks like a great chart. When are you testing?

[nintendork]

Test, Test, Test!

[MaerynPearl]

I cramped SO bad the day after AF was due this cycle that I was convinced my lines were flukes.

Cramps are a totally normal and healthy part of early pregnancy for many women (even those that never cramped before, I do not remember it with DS or DD!)

[~Adorkable~]

I cramped from implantation, about 9dpo till I was nearly 8 weeks preggo, everything is perfectly fine with me and my babies.

I also have had some stronger sharp pains on the side I ovulated from and now we can see I formed a luteul cyst there. It's not to bad and I'm sure it will resolve itself, though it might hurt a lot more when it first does, for better or worse I have had cycts in the past and at least be about the recognize that feeling and not freak about it.

[GaleTX]

Thanks for the encouragement. I just tested - BFN

[Baby_Cakes]

Though, your chart is still looking awesome. I say it ain't over till the fat lady sings.

[MaerynPearl]

http://canyouseealine.com/hpts/5152.jpg

My 13dpo evening FRER (yes, theres a second line but anything done earlier than that would not have had one)

and I am very much pregnant (29 weeks, 1 day now!)

[~Charlie's~Angel~]

Originally Posted by GaleTX

Thanks for the encouragement. I just tested - BFN

Honey, my home tests came out negative with DS1 til I was about 6 weeks along. Keep up hope!

[Tear78]

Originally Posted by Barbie64g

Honey, my home tests came out negative with DS1 til I was about 6 weeks along. Keep up hope!

oh MAN, it's stories like that that make me keep hoping. I SO want to be the person with that story! The lady that gets a negative blood test at 13dpo but still doesn't have her period and then finds out she's having a baby. Can that PLEASE be me?! Sorry...thread hijacking. *slaps own hands*

GaleTX, hang in there! Unfortunately, until AF shows there is no clear answer to our agonized waiting.

[hoping4just1more]

With DS2 I was late so I took a test and got a bfn. Then I started cramping so I thought ok, it's coming. But AF didn't. I started excersizing to try and induce AF since I already had the cramping. Three days later still no AF so I took a test (thinking for sure it would be -). After about 2 minutes I didn't see a line so I left the test on the counter and took a shower. Got out and started doing my normal hygien routine not even thinking about the test because I had written it off as a bfn and out of the corner of my eye I saw a BFP sitting on my counter lol. I almost fell over.

However I know one other time I was late and I started cramping but I was so stressed and obsessed with getting a BFP that I think I delayed my period. I finally went into the OB and had an ultrasound and blood test done and the very day they verified I was not pregnant I actually started my period.

Cramps dont mean it was a bad cycle. It just means your body is doing something.

Good luck to you. Hope you get your BFP this cycle.