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CanThisBe
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Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
Regular Poster in Hiding 
Anyone have any experience with the below as possible early pregnancy signs?
1)Implantation Spotting - Starting last Wednesday I started having some brown spotting. Mostly when I wipe but a few dots on my pantiliner too. Nothing major by any means. Once or twice there was a faint little tinge of pinkish color but only on the TP when I wiped. I assumed AF was coming but here we are now on Monday and it's basically all tapered off and still, if there is anything, it's just brown and crumbly'ish. I've NEVER spotted like this for days and days leading into AF. Usually just the day before.
Could this be implantation? I am so irregular with AF so it's hard for me to know when AF should be coming.
2) Cramping - I've also had a little bit of intermittent cramping, nothing too painful and it doesn't last long. Just here or there. When I was pregnant with my DD I had a lot of cramping so I know this could be a sign but I only noticed the cramping this time with the brown spotting.
3) Bowel Movements - (Sorry for the TMI) For over a week now I've had very frequent BM's and it's more on the diarrhea side.  I'm going sometimes up to 4X/day. I'm not sick, haven't eaten anything weird, no reason to have an upset stomach for days and days either. Could this mean something is going on? I have no idea. It's just so weird.
Just trying to figure out what is going on with me. My last AF was Feb. 10th and we've been  throughout the weeks so I guess anything is possible. I would be SHOCKED if I were since we've needed the RE's help before and I wouldn't even be entertaining the idea of being pregnant if it weren't for the spotting. That's weird for me.
Any insight is appreciated. Thanks! 
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MrsT809
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Re: Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
Have you tested? I know how frustrating long and irregular cycles can be, I've definitely been there. I didn't have any early symptoms at all, but wish you lots of luck!!
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| Posted 4/2/12 10:19 AM |
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Re: Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
Posted by MrsT809
Have you tested? I know how frustrating long and irregular cycles can be, I've definitely been there. I didn't have any early symptoms at all, but wish you lots of luck!!
Thank you!
I'm waiting to test. I figured if by some miracle this is implantation spotting it would technically be too early to really test. I thought that if by the weekend I still don't have AF I will POAS and see if anything is going on.
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| Posted 4/2/12 10:27 AM |
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MammaPajama
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Re: Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
I did in fact have implantation spotting 6DPO. I wasn't really sure it was a sign until I started having such horrible congestion that I thought something was up.
Do you know when you ovulated? What CD (or dpo) were you when you had the spotting? I have long irregular cycles too but using the OPK's was a big help!
By the way, I remember reading that a HPT would most likely not give a positive pregnancy test until 4-5 days after implantation, so depending on when the spotting was you might be able to test now....good luck! 
eta: the first positive test I took was 12dpo so technically 6 days after I had spotting.
Message edited 4/2/2012 10:33:23 AM.
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| Posted 4/2/12 10:32 AM |
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Babylove10
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Re: Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
My only sign of pregnancy the week before I tested positive was diarrhea with my current pregnancy.
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| Posted 4/2/12 10:56 AM |
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MrsMcNuzzi
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Re: Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
Posted by Babylove10
My only sign of pregnancy the week before I tested positive was diarrhea with my current pregnancy.
same for me!
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| Posted 4/2/12 12:03 PM |
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Chai77
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Re: Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
I have been pg a total of four times. I had possible implantation spotting twice- once early at around five dpo and once around nine dpo. The other times I didn't have it. I had none of the other symptoms you mentioned.
Do you ovulate late? Given your last AF date, I think it is possible you could get a positive now, I would test. Good luck.
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| Posted 4/2/12 1:07 PM |
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JDubs
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Re: Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
could be anything... pregnancy symptoms vary from person to person... for me all i had was a sore throat and cold a week before my BFP
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| Posted 4/2/12 1:18 PM |
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CanThisBe
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Re: Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
Posted by JDubs
could be anything... pregnancy symptoms vary from person to person... for me all i had was a sore throat and cold a week before my BFP
Interesting. I actually had a really bad sore throat for 2-3 days last week. But my DD also had a cold so I just attributed it to that. That's the problem with pregnancy symptoms, they can either be the sign of something to come or easily explained away by any number of other factors. It's very frustrating.
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| Posted 4/2/12 1:24 PM |
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Re: Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
Posted by Chai77
I have been pg a total of four times. I had possible implantation spotting twice- once early at around five dpo and once around nine dpo. The other times I didn't have it. I had none of the other symptoms you mentioned.
Do you ovulate late? Given your last AF date, I think it is possible you could get a positive now, I would test. Good luck.
That's the thing, IF I do ovulate I tend to ovulate late. CD23+. When I got AF on 2/10 I was using the CDEFM but the problem is I had a bazillion high readings that by CD31'ish it just stopped asking for tests. But knowing my body, I'm not convinced that I didn't ovulate at some point after that. So we did try to just in case. I don't know, maybe I actually got lucky here.
Given my history and my body I'm really trying to NOT over think this and get my hopes up. I've been disappointed too many times before and the likelihood of my getting pregnant without any intervention seems like it would be nothing short of a miracle. I wouldn't think twice about any other symptoms I'm having (moodiness, tired, etc) IF I didn't have that spotting for the past few days. That is just so atypical for me which is what has me thinking.
Hopefully I will have some answers by the end of the week.
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| Posted 4/2/12 1:31 PM |
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CanThisBe
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Re: Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
Bump
Anyone else?
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| Posted 4/2/12 8:36 PM |
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july4mrsO
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Re: Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
Before my BFP I had diarrhea and some cramping. I never had implantation bleeding but from what you're describing it's definitely possible!
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| Posted 4/2/12 8:43 PM |
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Mrs213
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Re: Questions - Early Pregnancy Signs
I did get cramping, in fact I thought it was AF.
I didnt experience any spotting at all though
Eta - if you haven't had AF since Feb 10 I would definitely do a test
Message edited 4/2/2012 9:13:53 PM.
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