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What Are The Symptoms Of Pregnancy?
I am a week late for my period. I feel unusually tired. I ve been on a diet for 2 months now and lost 20 pounds. I took 3 preg tests that didn t work, then bought more. 1 came back negative. With my first child this was all the same, and the number 5 test came back positive after a week of waiting. That is currently what I m doing is waiting a week and taking the second test. Could this be anything else?
Tue, 19 Jan 2016
Hello I would be happy to help.
In some women, due to stress, medical illness and even rapid weight loss, they can have a delay in when they ovulate. It is like your body recognizing a stressful situation and determining that it is not a good time to get pregnant. So, if you are not pregnant, the most likely explanation is related to delayed or absent ovulation. Also, if you are overweight, this sometimes leads to absent or delayed ovulation as well - commonly associated with a condition called PCOS.
I hope that this helps and good luck!
Dr. Tim
In some women, due to stress, medical illness and even rapid weight loss, they can have a delay in when they ovulate. It is like your body recognizing a stressful situation and determining that it is not a good time to get pregnant. So, if you are not pregnant, the most likely explanation is related to delayed or absent ovulation. Also, if you are overweight, this sometimes leads to absent or delayed ovulation as well - commonly associated with a condition called PCOS.
I hope that this helps and good luck!
Dr. Tim
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Hello dear,
I understand your concern.
In my opinion usually the urine pregnancy test gives accurate results a week after missed period in case of regular periods.
And losing of weight and being in diet also might cause hormonal imbalance leading to irregular periods or delayed periods.So even that can be the possibility.
So relax.I suggest you to repeat the test after a week.And if that is negative consult doctor for further management.
In order to clear the doubt you can as well go for serum BHCG testing.
Best regards...Dr.Srilatha
I understand your concern.
In my opinion usually the urine pregnancy test gives accurate results a week after missed period in case of regular periods.
And losing of weight and being in diet also might cause hormonal imbalance leading to irregular periods or delayed periods.So even that can be the possibility.
So relax.I suggest you to repeat the test after a week.And if that is negative consult doctor for further management.
In order to clear the doubt you can as well go for serum BHCG testing.
Best regards...Dr.Srilatha
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