Tired of pregnancy symptoms with bfn!

SamT

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We're TTC #2 and have been trying for several months. Each month I seem to get more pregnancy symptoms but still my period comes so clearly PMS! Today at 13dpo (bfn this morning), I feel weighed down, nauseous, very fatigued, and mild cramping. My mouth constantly fill with saliva and I just had to leave a meeting cos felt so dizzy and sick. The nausea, changes in appetite, saliva, and increased temperature are all new symptoms this month but had latched on to my usual PMS symptoms. I'm sooo fed up of feeling like sh*** only to discover bfn! I don't even know what Q I'm asking! I guess I'm desperate for someone to tell me I am pregnant or give me hope. But I know it doesn't work like that.
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Of course the answer is maybe you are pregnant! Only time will tell. As you pointed out, most early pregnancy symptoms are the same as pms symptoms. It is enough to just about drive a person crazy!

I personally think the most dangerous part of this whole TTC process is how hyper-aware we become. Extra aware of every thing our body does (or doesn't do), extra aware of how many pregnant ladies/babies/strollers are out in public, etc... It can easily become an obsession. I think it's okay to accept that this is a pretty consuming process and quite the roller coaster of emotions.

At the same time, it's also important to come up with tools that work for you to reduce the obsessing. Maybe you could specifically schedule "dates" with DH, family, and friends during the TWW to keep you occupied. I know I am okay for the first week, but the second week I start symptom-spotting like a mad woman. I try to actively come up with things to keep me busy in my free time, and not just go out for dinner with friends (because then all I want to talk about is you-know-what).

One of the ways I've tried to keep a lid on the crazy is to chart and temp. When I started this, I wrote lots of notes about symptoms. For me this was mainly detail about my pre-AF spotting because I kept convincing myself it was implantation bleeding. It never was, of course. And now I can better see the pattern for what it is, pre-AF spotting.

Good luck & lots of baby dust to you! :dust:
 
That's a good idea re busying up the final week. I actually used to do this but haven't recently. I keep wondering about charting temp too but each time I consider it (towards end of cycle), I think surely it can't be much longer anyway. After reading ur reply I went in to a pharmacy and asked for a basal body temp thermometer but the lady didn't know what it was! I'll find one on Internet. You re right about the obsessing and symptom spotting too. I wish I could switch it off but I have yet to find the off switch! We had a month off over Xmas and its true that January was consequently a v relaxing month with no expectations. Wish I could replicate that. :-)
 

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