[Musou]

I am very, very confused. So I will list events as chronologically as I can: The date of my last period was March 16-March 20. I am known to commonly skip periods so when my period did not come in April it was no surprise & I'd not had sex so no worries. But on Apr. 22 my boyfriend and I got intimate & haven't since. Since that day I've felt very tired & didn't notice my continuous exhaustion until about May 7. A few days before I noticed my exhaustion I broke out in zits all over my face which very rarely happens & it took me a few face washes to find one that at least minimized them. Since then my appetite was also regulated. I used to go without eating until about 4 and be perfectly fine. No lunch or breakfast. Then I began eating lunch and then I began eating breakfast also. Another thing I'd noticed was that for about as long as I'd been tired I'd also been bloated and gassy(for about 2 weeks). Then about 1 week on May 7 before I should have gotten my period around May 15, I felt very dull cramps and my breasts felt a bit sensitive but not sore. That lasted for a few hours before I went to bed. Then on May 15, we went out to dinner & I ate about as much as my boyfriend who eats like a trashcan(mind you I'm very tiny, only 5 ft tall & about 105 lbs), even stranger was that I felt as if I could still eat and he was very, very full. Since then I've been hungry almost all the time, each time I eat I don't get full & feel as if I could eat more even though I'd just eaten a lot, then I'm hungry 2-3 hours later. About May 14 I began cramping very lightly, & the cramps have been coming and going, they got stronger about May 20. On May 15 my breasts became very sensitive but not sore and my sense of smell began to get better(normally, I have a HORRIBLE sense of smell & hardly smell anything). The smells increased & became very strong by May 20(I don't like it anymore, there's too much to smell). Since about May 20 I've had lower back pain that gets pretty intense sometimes. The cramps haven't been nearly as painful as they usually are for my period(I get them about a week in advance). Today: May 22, I went to the bathroom and say a bit of blood on my panties, it was sort of brownish and watery but still red and blood. That was at about 9:30 a.m. Til about 2 p.m. there wasn't much and it was sort of slimey and clearish. I put a regular pad on at 2 p.m. and it is almost 10 p.m. and it is still not full. (normally, on the first day of my period I am bed ridden from the pain of my cramps that stay for very long periods of time(hours upon hours on end) & I have to change FULL pads every 2 hours. My cramps are still coming and going & not nearly as painful as my normal period cramps, in fact I feel my lower back hurts more than my cramps. BUT, despite all this I took a urine pregnancy test at about 3 p.m. today and it came out negative. Someone mentioned they thought I wasn't only because they couldn't eat much because of morning sickness in the first weeks, but I've always had a strong stomach and haven't thrown up in years. But, also since about May 18, eating meals where meat is the biggest part has made me feel a bit sick, like I don't want to move much or I feel like if I burp then a bit of something might come up with it, I don't exactly know what nausea feels like... is that it? Could I still be pregnant despite these recent events even which indicate something like a period & the test which said I wasn't pregnant? If I were pregnant, I'd be in the 2nd day of my 7th week today. My boyfriend has watched me carefully & tells me the things that have happened seem to fall in order with the things he's researched. I don't know what's happening to my body, someone help?

[Musou]

I forgot to mention(I think), that also since about May 16, bananas have been very good & tasty to me

[Musou]

OH! Also, as long as I've been tired, I've also been very thirsty & was drinking about 2-3 waterbottles a day until about May 17 when I started drinking a little more & since May 17 have been urinating about 6-8 times a day...

[Wondergirl]

Why haven't you been to a doctor?

[Musou]

Wondergirl, I don't exactly want to be pregnant so I've tried to find every excuse to say that I wasn't, it seems as if I could be a week late now & the test told me I was not pregnant, but everything else seems to say I am, I barely began to notice these things about May 12 since I've been so busy. All those things combined with today don't exactly add up... I just want to know if it's possible that I'm pregnant or if I just was maybe so paranoid I tricked my body into thinking it was pregnant..?

[J_9]

Dear, if you are pregnant, it would be too early to have all of these cravings.

As a nurse, all I need to know is whether you missed your period and whether you took a pregnancy test. Craving bananas has NOTHING to do with pregnancy. I despise tomatoes, but I've been eating them like crazy lately and it's impossible for me to be pregnant. Our tastes change.

Now, take a HPT using first morning urine. It's much more accurate than taking it in the afternoon.

[Musou]

Thank you J_9. My period seems to have come however, it is VERY different from how it usually is and about a week late. I will take another test in the morning. Do you still think it's possible that I'm pregnant though?

[J_9]

Chances are you are not pregnant since you got your period. Every once in a while, though, we just have periods that are different than what we are used to.

[Musou]

Thank you, J_9, I feel much better.