Hi I am waiting for results to find out if I am pregnant for the first time since finding out I have pcos but one thing ia confusing me and always has done, pcos causes your hormonal levels to become imbalanced and making the male hormones become too high so would this not mask the actual levels in your body for tests to pick up??? Because the way I see it and no one will explain it to me, surely it would have to elevate to become "normal" and thenhave to go even higher before a test will pick up the levels? If someone could answer this for me I would be so grateful as I have wondered this for literally years and now I have loads of symptoms including sickness, a 'pressure' just above my knicker line, constantly hungry (not like me at all!!), extremely emotional and easily start crying (again very much not like me, usually takes a lot to make me cry. ...usually) and always extremely tired. Have been to socs and she said it sounds like I am pregnant even saying the sleepiness was the clincher but I am worried about the test results. Would be great to get some feedback. Thanks Hayley :-) xx
Hi Hayley, I am not a professional but have had PCOS for 5 years and have picked up a lot of information over the years.. A pregnancy test detects the level of HCG hormone is in your urine which increases depending on how far along you are. It doesn't look for any other hormone and so shouldnt be affected by anything other than your HCG levels. You shouldn't get a false positive (although not impossible) For early on pregnancy's you need to look at a more sensitive test, one that only needs 10 mIU/mL (this will be displayed on the test packaging) tests come in different strengths so the higher the number the more HCG you need to have present before getting your positive. The symptoms you have mentioned could mean that you are pregnant but unfortunately, pregnancy, period and ovulation symptoms can all be very similar and can vary from person to person so it's very difficult to be sure. Do you know how many days past ovulation you are or how many days late you are for your period? Jo x
Hi thank you for the info. I have irregular periods so I have no idea when I ovulate and it is a rough guess as to when I am due on veey roughly I have a cycle of 35 to 48 days I use an ap to try and help pinpoint whwn I come on and so far it has been right within a few days. I think I am due on over the weekend the only reason I am so convinced I am pregnant is because the last time I felt the way I do now and had all the symptoms I have now is when I was pregnant with my son before my pcos flared up. I will see if u can get a sensitive test and see what that says. Thanks again :-) Hayley x
you sound very similar to me, it's so difficult to know for sure, my temperature chart looks like an earthquake chart so god knows what it's going to tell me lol... Just remember that if you are early the test might show negative until another week or so. Fingers crossed you get the outcome you want x
Thank you hun I have absolutely everything crossed for a positive result :-) x
So according to my ap I was due on yesterday, took a test today that said it detected the hcg from the first day of your missed period and it came back negative. I am absolutely devastated and terrified because if I am not pregnant what is wrong with me???? Even the doc said all my symptons were signs of early pregnancy, my body and mund is telling me that the test is wrong but what if it isn't? Am so worried and scared :'( I have a doctors appointment on Wednesday. I just want to cry!! If anyone has been through this and has any advice I would really like to hear it, good or bad. Thanks
Sorry I haven't been on here in a few day... how did it go at the docs? x
Went to docs yesterday and she couldn't decide if there was a positive line or not as it looked like it in some ways but not in others so gotta go back tomorrow for a blood test but even she said I have all the symptoms of early pregnancy including the not well known ones and she also said that sometimes it does take the urine twsts a while to show up so just going to have to wait and see what the blood tests say. Should hopefully get results on monday :-/
Oh I really hope you are!! Hope these next few days don't drag too much for you! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you, let me know :o)
Thank you, I am really scared that the tests are going to come back negative as that means there is something seriously wrong somewhere if the urine test hadn't come back negative yesterday there would be no doubt in my mind that I am pregnant, I just feel it and I feel exactly how I did with my son 8 years ago. I have absolutely everything crossed for a positive result but we shall see :-) I shall let you kbow when I get the results x
Try not to worry as stress levels can affect things too! They do say a woman's intuition is to be trusted! x
Am trying is very tricky keeping stress levels down at the moment as on top of everything I am moving next weekend as well! Lol am trying to take things easy though :-) will let you the outcome though, thank you :-) x
How did it go? x
Still don't have the results :-( I phoned them twice yesterday to get them and both times they just said phone back so am going to call back again this afternoon and hope they have them! Suspense is killing me, I'm not patient at the best of times lol :-)
Phoned the docs and hcg levels are positive when the levels get to 5.0 and apparently mine were 1.5 :'( I am now waiting for the nurse to call me back to figure out what on earth is getting on. I just don't understand! I have all the symptoms and I feel exactly the same as I did when I was pregnant with my son 8 years ago I don't understand :'( am devastated and I am terrified of what is coming next and I don't know whether to trust my body or the doctors because even though the docs have said no my body still says yes! Has anyone been through this? I am so confused and don't know where to turn next :'(
oh i'm sorry hun, the body can play some pretty nasty tricks! I don't want to fill you with false hope but it could be that you ovulated a lot later than you thought which would mean you are still too early to show...but remember if you aren't pregnant your stress levels could be stopping you from getting your period. You need to try and relax and take your mind of it (i know, easier said than done) then atleast if you get your AF you're closer to being able to try again. Being in limbo is the worst place. I've been there and started looking into my symptoms too much and it drove me mad. I didn't have as many as you have though. Try and stay positive, it will happen it's just pcos doing what it does best and causing misery!! i'm in the waiting to test stage so i'll probably be driving myself crazy by next week x
hi pixel i have been reading this post even though its been 3 months old im goin through something confusing as well never missed a period got put on the metformin periods started coming around until may it didnt i only spot i did a pt it was positive so i went to doc did a next pt it was also positive so he said it was an obstructive pregnancy n did an ultrasound it showed ntn went to a gyno he said miscarriage i bleed so much the whole a june i was fustrated they told me to do a beta blood hcg test i did it came back saying am preg did a nxt ultrasound n still nothing there now there saying oh its the pcos causeing all this hormone imbalance its really heart rending thinking u r n hoping then to find out u truly arent
I've always wondered the same thing because the last time I found out I was pregnant I was actually 8-9 weeks when it did show on the pregnancy test and I actually miscarried between 5-6 weeks. Funny thing, I tested a month before and no positive and went to the Dr and did a test there also and it was negative and so I had a pap smear done at that appt!! My concern is that I could be pregnant and not know it...and by the time I get a result it may be too late again . Did you get any info on this?? Hope all is well with you
Hi everyone. ..m so glad to find this platform. .m in the same boati.i nvr had regular periods cz of pcos n I hv bn married fr 3 years now.i m on metformin 1500mg fr a mnth.before tht I was on 500mg fr sone months as I cdnt tolerate higher doses n always got a really bad diarrhea. Anywys my dr. gave me provera to start my periods with clomid 50mg but I ddnt ovulate with it.now I had a repeated cycle of same medicines bt 100mg clomid this time.i was supposed to hv scans to c whn I ovulate bt unfortunately my dr. Went to a conference out of the country so i cdnt hv any But one, in which thr wr two potential follicles. Dr said thr r many chnces to gt prgnnt wth these doses Of medicines.shee advised to hv sex every other day. ..so we dd.now it's 24 th day since the first day of my period.n I hv many symptoms bt tody the HPT came negative. M sooooo stressed. Is thr any hopem dying to fall pregnantcan anyone help
I have got symptoms like alternative constipation and diarrhoea, nausea, tiredness, mood swings, anxiety, sudden loss of appetite in such a way that I feel soo hungry that my stomach starts growling bt I dnt want to eat anything I feel nauseous. Bloating and frequent urination. All these signs r those on which I wdnt hv md any assumptions if I wdnt hv gt clomid.
Bcz I hv got most of these symptoms many a time before ..may b cz of hormonal imbalance bt ths time I hv gt a feeling tht m prego.n a v weird thng happened tht fr no reason all of a sudden my sex desire totally finished! I cnt feel anything n evn thnkng abt hvng sex z horrible fr me.ths hs happened fr a week or so.i dnt evn wnt to go near my hsbnd.i feel so sorry fr him bt cnt do anything. ...simply can't! Has anyone else got ths weird symptom?