What is the absolute earliest you can have pregnancy symptoms?

[Anonymous]

Just curious...

[Anonymous]

With my first, I had a hunch the day after my missed period (I didn't know it was the day after at the time. We weren't actively trying to get pregnant but I had gone off the pill in preparation and I was having long cycles. So I was expecting a 40 day cycle. Turns out I had a 35 day cycle based on when we conceived.) I got mild heartburn the day after I should have gotten my period and it was weird since I had never gotten it before. We were out of town so I tested a couple days later when we got home.

With this pregnancy, I kind of suspected about a week before my missed period. I always race around my office and this time I was short of breath, which is not like me. But I knew for sure the day before my missed period. I was really tired and even after getting a few nights of great sleep I was still exhausted so I figured I was.

[Anonymous]

2 days after the implantation, so it would be approximately 10-12 days past ovulation. However, most women don't experience any symptoms until they are 6-8 weeks pregnant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2 days after the implantation, so it would be approximately 10-12 days past ovulation. However, most women don't experience any symptoms until they are 6-8 weeks pregnant.

This. I only experienced symptoms in retrospect (after I tested positive, I thought "oh...that was weird") - very bad gas and fatigue that were out of the ordinary.

[Anonymous]

With both pregnancies, a couple days before my period was due my boobs ACHED.

[Anonymous]

My boobs were incredibly sore 10 or 11 days after ovulation. I waited 3 days or so to test, and got a positive another day or two after that. I just had this feeling.

I never had morning sickness/nausea so other than the boobs and the fatigue (and absence of a period), I wouldn't have known otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2 days after the implantation, so it would be approximately 10-12 days past ovulation. However, most women don't experience any symptoms until they are 6-8 weeks pregnant.

Me too on this. I remember telling my husband that I really thought I could be pregnant. I had cramps from the day after ovulation until I took the test two days before my missed period. I just KNEW it all along, something felt...different. Can't really explain it. But I don't think this is the norm.

[Anonymous]

10 days after conception - I had a ton of cervical mucous outside of my fertile window which I thought was very strange (I was tracking my cervical mucous). When I googled it I learned it was teh first sign of pregnancy since your body was forming the plug.

[Anonymous]

10 days post conception I had this "bubble-like" feelings in my lower abdominal area in both pregnancy. With my second, I was also exhausted!

[Anonymous]

A couple of days before my missed period, I had terrible heartburn (and I never get heartburn)... lasted through my whole pregnancy. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

I noticed darkened nipples about 3 days post IVF transfer

[Anonymous]

With both pregnancies, I started with weird insomnia a few days before my period was due. I fell asleep just fine, but was wide awake at 2 or 3 am and could not fall back asleep. It lasted much of the first trimester both times -- OB said it was hormones.

[Anonymous]

Could be as early as within 48 hours of fertilization. See here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9196793

[Anonymous]

Sad stories with a happy ending:

I have felt it within 48 hours of implantation (and felt the loss 48 hours later -- this was from IVF that failed -- I know many will say this is not a pregnancy and I accept that). In another instance, I felt it two weeks after implantation (failed IVF -- pregnancy tests initially were negative and then HCG soared with a confirmed pregnancy, subsequently crashing to an m/c). The next pregnancy had no symptoms at all (spontaneous, no ART) and so I about fell off the exam table when the doctor (prepping us for another IVF) had me take a pregnancy test and told me the news -- sadly, that resulted in a m/c as well. But hold on:

The *best* story is the pregnancy that happened after the three failed IVF's and one spontaneous pregnancy -- the one that surprised us. I felt it 7 days past conception and kept swearing I was "so over" my PMS and other symptoms (constant peeing, backache, irritability, sore breasts). Then I told myself at day 9 that the blue lines on the breasts were just in my head. Then I convinced myself that the surge of a desire to exercise and the dreams of exhaustion (also evident in the other pregnancies) were all in my head. The day after the missed period, the tests told the story, and DC arrived 9 months later.

Hold out for the miracle Listen to your body, as well. Keep the faith. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sad stories with a happy ending:

I have felt it within 48 hours of implantation (and felt the loss 48 hours later -- this was from IVF that failed -- I know many will say this is not a pregnancy and I accept that). In another instance, I felt it two weeks after implantation (failed IVF -- pregnancy tests initially were negative and then HCG soared with a confirmed pregnancy, subsequently crashing to an m/c). The next pregnancy had no symptoms at all (spontaneous, no ART) and so I about fell off the exam table when the doctor (prepping us for another IVF) had me take a pregnancy test and told me the news -- sadly, that resulted in a m/c as well. But hold on:

The *best* story is the pregnancy that happened after the three failed IVF's and one spontaneous pregnancy -- the one that surprised us. I felt it 7 days past conception and kept swearing I was "so over" my PMS and other symptoms (constant peeing, backache, irritability, sore breasts). Then I told myself at day 9 that the blue lines on the breasts were just in my head. Then I convinced myself that the surge of a desire to exercise and the dreams of exhaustion (also evident in the other pregnancies) were all in my head. The day after the missed period, the tests told the story, and DC arrived 9 months later.

Hold out for the miracle Listen to your body, as well. Keep the faith. Good luck!

PP, you story gave me hope. Currently, my symptoms are all over the place after an IVF, so I am trying not to read anything into them since you never know.