Post # 1
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Helper bee
- Wedding: November 2014 - Mauritius
Hi bees, I’ve been looking for a somewhat scientific explanation for this just for my own curiosity! How is it that some women experience pregnancy symptoms before a pregnancy test will pick up enough hormones for a BFP? Surley there must be enough hormones there to make you feel nauseous/tired/sore boobs and the various other early symptoms you hear mentioned. In the TWW and trying my hardest not to symptom spot, but in my WB TTC board scouring this just came to me!
Post # 2
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Sugar bee
Well, everyone has a surge of progesterone after ovulation, whether or not they are pregnant. Progesterone is responsible for most of those PMS/early pregnancy symptoms like sore boobs, fatigue, nausea and acne. If a fertilized egg doesn’t implant, progesterone levels drop and your period arrives. If one does implant, your progesterone stays high, your sore boobs/nausea/fatigue continues and you don’t get your period.
Post # 3
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Honey bee
Progesterone and estrogen are primarily responsible (mostly progesterone) for all of these symptoms and you have progesterone surges in the two weeks after ovulation regardless of whether or not you get pregnant. Women say “I’ve never had this, that or this” symptom before, so I MUST be pregnant, then are sorely disappointed when they get a BFN. The reality is, every cycle is different and over the years our bodies go through changes which can cause these symptoms to start appearing in the two week wait when they never did before. Also, when you are not trying, you are not paying any attention to these changes throughout your cycle. In addition to that, if you were on birth control prior to TTC, your body is absolutely going to react differently in the two week wait after stopping it. In all the months that I thought I was pregnant based on symptoms, I wasn’t. The months I had NO symptoms in the two weeks prior to AF were the ones I got a BFP.
Post # 4
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Buzzing bee
I honestly had every sympton in the book every single month I had a BFN. The month we got a BFP I had NOTHING at all, just decided to test at 14DPO for fun… surprise!
Post # 5
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Helper bee
- Wedding: November 2014 - Mauritius
That’s helpful thanks ladies! I know everyone says it’s the month you’re not trying or the month you have no symptoms is when you have BFP but unless you’re not actively TTC it’s sooooo hard! Putting everything this week down to not being very well and messing with my body, only 7DPO so we won’t know until next weekend probably!