WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for January, 2000: Re: pregnancy or paranoia?

Re: pregnancy or paranoia?

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:35:38 -0600 (CST)

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At Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Very wrote: >
>Hi. I really think I am pregnant. No I haven't gone to the doctor yet,
>simply because I am scared, and I am worried about telling my husband.
>Of course I will go eventually, but I have a couple of questions first.
>The other day, I noticed that I felt a faint thump in my uterus. ( I do
>realize that I would have to be around 14 weeks for that) Of course I
>just passed it off as gas.
>However, I have felt it several times since then, two or three times or
>more a day for a few days, always in the same place.
>I have a 1 year old, so this is way too eerily familiar. At the same
>time, I have had a brown discharge everyday for at least three weeks
>which I have passed off as when I missed two pills this month, it must
>have messed up my cycle, and I have been hoping that my tummy (looking
>slightly pudgy) is just bloated, considering I should be starting my
>period again soon. I am very thin.
> I took two home pregnancy tests this week which both showed negative.
>I have not missed a period. But I am just not convinced. That little
>thump thump persists, and my tummy seems to feel a little tight. I
>wonder that if it sounds like I probably am pregnant, why the brown
>discharge as well as my period.
>My other question is what is the earliest in pregnancy you've ever heard
>of some one feeling fetal movements. Remember, I am extremely slender,
>and have been pregnant before, fairly recently. Maybe I can feel them
>pretty early.
>If I am pregnant and 14 weeks at that, it means I have had 3 periods
>since, and negative test results.
>I hope to goodness I am just paranoid and it's all psychological. Thanks
>for your time in reading this. It is much appreciated.

At 14 weeks, you'd have a positive pregnancy test. By missing 2 pills this month, would those be birth control pills? If so, with regular periods and a negative pregnancy test, it's almost a certainty that you're not pregnant.

The earliest I've heard of is 14 weeks but I did have one patient who swore she felt the sperm hit the egg the night she got pregnant and felt movement ever since (you can't make this stuff up folks.)

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Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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