jessmke
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Hi everyone, this is my first post. My husband and I are trying to have our first baby and this is our first month trying to conceive so I really don't know what I'm doing! I ovulated approximately 6-8 days ago (based on period math so this is just a guesstimate and could be way off, I don't chart or take my temp or anything), and we have been, ahem, intimate pretty much every day since my last period ended. On Monday (about 5 dpo) I started having some abdominal cramps in the afternoon, and by the evening I had pretty severe pain in my lower right abdomen around my hip bone. It was bad enough that I couldn't stand up straight or move at all without a lot of pain. We were concerned it was my appendix, so if I started getting worse or throwing up we were ready to go to the hospital. I managed to sleep through the night, and yesterday the pain in my right side was gone but I have bad period type cramps in my lower abdomen, sometimes they feel like really bad gas pains. I also started spotting yesterday morning, and am continuing to spot today. It's quite dark spotting, brown to burgundy in color. My cramping is still there today, but not as bad as the last few days. I don't think the spotting is my period coming because that would make my period 10 days early, which would be extremely unusual for me.
Could this all be implantation? I didn't think it would be possible to get symptoms this early, and I didn't think they would be this severe! I'm concerned that because the pain and discomfort was so severe that maybe this is a ruptured cyst or something, which would account for the pain and the bleeding. Last summer my doc found a cyst on that ovary (when he was doing an ultrasound for another reason), he said it was a small, simple cyst and it didn't bother me at all so we left it alone.
I don't really have any other symptoms, boobs feel fine. Only other thing of note is that I am EXTREMELY bloated, it looks like I've swallowed a beach ball! I also did almost cry when my husband told me he was going to hockey last night, which is just plain weird since he plays hockey all the time and it's never bothered me before!
Any advice/opinions would be great! I'm wavering between being excited and being worried!
Could this all be implantation? I didn't think it would be possible to get symptoms this early, and I didn't think they would be this severe! I'm concerned that because the pain and discomfort was so severe that maybe this is a ruptured cyst or something, which would account for the pain and the bleeding. Last summer my doc found a cyst on that ovary (when he was doing an ultrasound for another reason), he said it was a small, simple cyst and it didn't bother me at all so we left it alone.
I don't really have any other symptoms, boobs feel fine. Only other thing of note is that I am EXTREMELY bloated, it looks like I've swallowed a beach ball! I also did almost cry when my husband told me he was going to hockey last night, which is just plain weird since he plays hockey all the time and it's never bothered me before!
Any advice/opinions would be great! I'm wavering between being excited and being worried!