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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
symptoms before POAS?
Let me start by saying I am not charting. I went off BC about 6 weeks ago and have not yet had AF.
I have POAS several times in the last couple of weeks. Because I haven't had AF yet I'm just not sure what my body is doing!
Today I have bad lower back pain and my stomach is sore to the touch. I just feel weird. I POAS today and it was a BFN.
My questions to you, so I don't continue wasting sticks, is what were your pre-POAS symptoms? What made you POAS?
Re: symptoms before POAS?
What made me POAS was the fact that I was 5 days late. I had come off the pill about 6 months earlier and had 28 day cycles immediately. Being late was very unusual.
After I got my BFP I realized I'd been having symptoms - I was extremely sensitive to smells, I woke up nauseous a few mornings and I was very tired.
I promised myself when we started TTC that I would not test unless my period was late. I didn't want to drive myself or DH crazy with testing every five minutes. I had a few "maybe...." months but that was the only time my period was late.
Good luck.
I had no symptoms with either pg, The only reason I tested was b/c I was 1 day late.
I tested just because I was late. I didn't have any symptoms that I recognized as symptoms at the time, and I honestly expected the test to be negative.
However, I did have one symptom for about a week prior to finding out- I was extremely sensitive to smells. But, oddly enough, I didn't think of it being a symptom until I knew I was pregnant. I honestly thought everything just smelled really bad. Everything- our fridge, the gas station, the grocery store, and especially my husband's favourite pepperoni sticks. I ranted about how bad everything smelled for days, and my husband thought I was losing my mind as I gagged over anything that offered the least bit of scent. I didn't put two and two together until just after I found out I was pregnant and we went to Subway for lunch (because I had thrown out all the food in our fridge, thinking it was rotten because it smelled so bad, lol) and the smell of baking bread, which is a good smell, almost made me throw up. Then it clicked. The extreme sensitivity to smells lasted until I was about 10 to 12 weeks along, but strong smells (like curry- it was everything I could do to not throw up on the street outside an Indian restaurant we walked by one day) bothered me all the way through.
Also, your cycles can be all messed up after you come off BCP. It is not uncommon for your first few cycles afterwards to be longer, more painful, etc.
Not that I don't wish you luck, i'm just saying...