Readers Respond: Frustrating Pregnancy Symptoms When Not Pregnant

Experiencing pregnancy symptoms when you're not pregnant is a common frustration for those trying to get conceive. We should probably put "pregnancy symptoms" in quotes, since you can rarely tell if you're pregnant, or just dealing with PMS, or just imagining it completely!

I like to think I've wised up to imaginary pregnancy symptoms, but I do still fall for them at times. Have you ever thought symptoms you were experiencing were signs of pregnancy, when they were not? Which "pregnancy symptoms" drive you crazy? And if you've ever been pregnant, could you tell the difference?

Sad , overly excited

Me & my husband have been married for a year, we've been together for almost ten years though and he really wants a baby, but I haven't gotten pregnant not one time. Every month I have really bad PMS, and I always get my hopes up. My periods change a lot, and it kills me. Know that I haven't been pregnant yet.

—Guest Wanting to be a mommy

hopefully

I hope you all come back and write on this page I'm pregnant.... having a baby at 40.

—Guest having a baby at 40

Confusion and delusion?

I have almost all the symptoms of being pregnant. I took not one but two tests and they both came out positive. Some people are telling me it could be all in my head. I can be thinking about it too much that I'm getting symptoms.

—Guest Guest leeanna

Always disappointed, So confused

I have been married for a year and a half and my husband and I have been trying to get pregnant the whole marriage. I have off scheduled periods and have skipped a month before. Every time that happened I thought I was pregnant. Take a test and negative results. Grrrrr! So now I have missed my period two months! Have some pregnancy symptoms, but also period symptoms. I haven't taken the test yet but I am going to give myself one more week. So, whats going on? Why do I feel like I am going to start but nothing has happened yet?

—Maranatha21

Trying Again!!

My husband and I tried for 7 years before our son came along. We were overjoyed. He is now 21 months old and we thought we would try again but hoping it don't take another 7 years. We have been trying now for 2 months and no period in January so far and I usually go 3 weeks and 3 days between periods. I hate to get my hopes up because it took so long the first time. I have taken 3 tests and negative every time. This morning I woke up and started feeling sick like morning sickness I felt with my son but the test was negative. I have been cramping for over a week and don't know what to think. I am without insurance at the moment so it's expense to just go to my doctor. CONFUSED!!!!

—Guest Amanda

I want to be a mommy

My husband and i have been trying to get pregnant since November of 2010 and still no luck! I have been feeling symptoms like breast tenderness, fatigue, cravings everyday, excessive saliva, and constipation. My husband and mother in law think I am pregnant, but I don't want to get my hopes up. We have thought I was pregnant 2 times before but I started my period after I took the hpt.

—Guest guest yesi

limbo

Hi All, I never knew I wanted a baby until the last year or two--or didn't admit it to myself. Now I've had some symptoms like spotting (very light/brown and then pink) and swollen breasts and tired, but these could be something else. I do feel different, but I second guess this. Just talked to a friend who warned me not to get too excited due to my age and that deflated my balloon a lot. I'm afraid to find out yes or no but feel I want to surrender to this being if it is in there! Been laying with feet up and resting on advise I've been reading to prevent miscarriage. I know that ultimately our consciousness plays a big part, and so does our physical body. It's pretty much now or never for me, don't know if I can afford fertility treatments. thanks for reading, it helps just to reach out. I feel like I need a women's biology and health class or something, it seems that this information shouldn't be so mysterious. I do have a Higher Power and feel that if it is right it will happen.

—Inviting_Magic

CONFUSED

major cramping, no period in almost two months, bloating, breast tenderness and enlargement, but a negative pregnancy test for 2 weeks now.... 27 years old and have no idea what is going on with my body :(

—Guest Danielle

confused

I have taken 7 hpt all came back positive except for the one urine test I took at doc office..my friends all tell me that sometimes the test strips at doc offices don't work. I am waiting for the blood test results but am really scared because my bf and I had been talking abt getting invitro to get pg for the last few months. We got all excited when the test came back positive, doing it the "old fashioned way" but now am scared cuz am bleeding and anxious to find out what the blood test are going to say... we are praying for a positive results..

—Guest cee-lo

I know the feeling

I know how you feel me and my boyfriend have been for 13 years i get that let down feeling every mnth to when my period comes iam also 28 and my boyfriend is 30. We have never went to the Dr.'s for it cause he's not the type he's like embarrased or something but all we can do is pray and if it's meant to be i guess it will just happen dont give up hope though you never know what the future may hold my aunt tried for 10 yrs. then it happened so dont give up i wish u luck amy! Guest Nikki

—Guest nikki

I thought i was pregnant!?!?!?

So for the past month my husband and i have thought that i was pregnant, i took a test and it was negative. I have had EVERY pregnancy symptom, I'm young and this would be my first pregnancy but we were both pretty positive i was pregnant. It started with headaches and then i had some cramping with very light bleeding[i thought this was when my baby was attaching to my Uturis] i have had a severe appetite increse, breast tenderness and swelling, major fatigue, bloating that doesn't go away[two weeks] constipation ect...this morning i woke up and i was bleeding very heavy, is this a late period?? could i still be pregnant??? did i loose my baby???? i'm so scared and ashamed

—Guest Kels

but he has them too!

I never craved oreos and popcorn til a few weeks ago and he said he's been eating oreos like never b4. He's been sleepin like crazy. I am taking liquid chlorophyl also for cleansing and wonderin how many of my symptoms are from that. Eggs make me gag, excess sleeping, horny, peeing, heartburn. I also have uterine fibroids and tilted womb. Some drs say heavy clotty periods is a sign but could clots be pieces of fibroid? Had 2 inter abdominal pregnancies dissolved with chemical soup from nuclear medicine clinic. Symptoms can occur from someone close to u pregnant and over wanting to be preggers.

—Guest lil burdie

All the Symptoms, yet nothing

Ok, I have PCOS but I also have two children 5 and 2. For the past two months I have been getting all the symptoms of pregnancy. I did three tests so far and they all read negative. I feel as though I am losing my mind. I am not making this up. My husband and I are not planning on having another baby but we will welcome one all the same. I dont have a period so I really cant say that I have missed one. In Feburary I have a slight period like experience, then in March a light brownish red. Nothing after that, just the pain and discomfort that goes with early signs of pregnancy. Is there anyone out there who can offer some level of relief. Please!

—Guest confused

Idk..

I had unprotected sex with my bf and we've been hoping we are not pregnant because I'm only 18 but I've been having a lot of symptoms like tender breasts, some cramping, a lot of lower back pain, even constipation, but one day before my period I started spotting and gradually increased to a heavy flow like a period but only lasted 2 days and then stopped abruptly. I'm really not sure if I got my period and all those symptoms were in my head or if I could be mistaking vaginal bleeding for my period. I'm just really confused right now :/

—Guest Lulu

cravings and crying

My period is due any day. I am having weird cravings, like yesterday I ate a honey wheat bagel, with butter, peanut butter, jelly and cut up boiled eggs from easter. This morning I ate something similar only it was scrambled eggs on it instead and turkey sausage patties on the side. It was a huge bagel! I ate it all and was so full afterward! Then while eating I sat and cried out loud like a baby while watching the news talk about the President considering releasing a photo of Osama. WTH? lol! Is this normal for before your period?

—Guest tmg2011