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What Are The Symptoms Of Pregnancy?
I have irregular periods and is trying to concieve. Me and my partner indulge highly in unprotected sex to make our dream child. I am 21 on my way to 22 this year and we've been trying for almost a year and no success. I started spotting brown discharge on the 22nd and 23rd of June. The next following day, June 24th, my period came and left July 1st. I had unprotected sex June 29th. On July 3rd, I starts spotting brown discharge and that lasted til the 5th. Also starting july 2nd, I felt like I was going through premenstrul cramps and felt jus a little sick to my stomach. Is there a chance that I'm experiencing pregnancy?
Mon, 4 Jan 2016
Hallow Dear,
I can feel your frustration from your query.
There are various ways to detect pregnancy. The cardinal symptoms of early pregnancy are:
1. Missing period
2. Frequency of urination
3. Nausea & vomiting with aversion to the food.
4. Breast changes which include engorgement with tenderness, dark discolouration of nipples & areola with increase in areolar size, small tubercles under the areola (Montgomery's tubercles) and secretions from the nipples.
It takes about 10-15 days after missed period for the last 3 symptoms to appear. By that time even clinical examination by a Gynaecologist is also quite diagnostic.
So just see whether you fit into this picture. However, early pregnancy is never diagnosed only on symptoms and need some confirmatory evidence.
After 8-10 days, urine pregnancy test done on the overnight first morning urine sample is quite a reliable test. Earlier, these tests may be false negative. By this time, even ultrasonography also can give you direct visual evidence of the pregnancy.
Beta hCG test is very specific and highly sensitive test and can give you the results about pregnancy even few days before missing a period.
I feel instead of being stressed in just guess works, it is better you choose one of the above mentioned options to confirm the diagnosis of pregnancy.
Dr. Nishikant Shrotri
I can feel your frustration from your query.
There are various ways to detect pregnancy. The cardinal symptoms of early pregnancy are:
1. Missing period
2. Frequency of urination
3. Nausea & vomiting with aversion to the food.
4. Breast changes which include engorgement with tenderness, dark discolouration of nipples & areola with increase in areolar size, small tubercles under the areola (Montgomery's tubercles) and secretions from the nipples.
It takes about 10-15 days after missed period for the last 3 symptoms to appear. By that time even clinical examination by a Gynaecologist is also quite diagnostic.
So just see whether you fit into this picture. However, early pregnancy is never diagnosed only on symptoms and need some confirmatory evidence.
After 8-10 days, urine pregnancy test done on the overnight first morning urine sample is quite a reliable test. Earlier, these tests may be false negative. By this time, even ultrasonography also can give you direct visual evidence of the pregnancy.
Beta hCG test is very specific and highly sensitive test and can give you the results about pregnancy even few days before missing a period.
I feel instead of being stressed in just guess works, it is better you choose one of the above mentioned options to confirm the diagnosis of pregnancy.
Dr. Nishikant Shrotri
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