Demanded an appointment today and got one (pg mentioned)

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Hey all: Well, I went in for my first beta today and was having such

bad abdominal pain that I pleaded with the receptionist to put me on

the schedule and she squeezed me in and I'm so glad that I did.

I saw the nurse practitioner who is just great and she listened to my

history and immediately did a pelvic and I had no pain at all in the

uterine/ovary area at all....what I am having is BELLY pain. And some

of it is quite severe. And, it turns out, I have been running a fever

and didn't realize it.

She thinks that I have a case of food poisoning or a stomach virus or

something that is working it's way through my system and that is the

cause for the cramping and pain. Sure enough, I have an AWFUL bought

of diarrhea tonight (sorry for the detail) and felt almost

immediately better afterwards.

I am having some more cramping and pain tonight, but it has been

associated with a lot of intestinal rumblings and gas as well so I

bet there is another episode in my near future.

But what a relief to have the pelvic and have her push and prod and

feel no pain where she was pushing and prodding. She also told me

(like you wonderful women here) that women with ectopic pregnancies

usually are symptom-free at this stage except some may have some

slight spotting. Women with ectopics don't have severe cramping or

pain like I have been having unless their ectopic is undiagnosed and

their tube actually ruptures which normally doesn't happen until 8

weeks or so. I am 18 days since conception which only puts me a day

or two into my 5th week. (I am 6 weeks from last menstrual period

today, but because my cycle was a 32 day cycle you have to " subtract

out " those extra 4 days in order to get an accurate pregnancy age)

So, long and short of it is that my cramping seems to be intestinal

and it's just a case of poor timing that I found out I am pregnant a

day before I came down with this stomach flu or food poisoning or

whatever it is....so I'm drinking extra fluids and taking it easy and

it should resolve in a few days.

I feel so much better knowing what is going on. I go back in for my

second beta on Monday morning. Still no results from today's beta,

probably won't get them until next week.

Sleeping with a bra on my chest hurts so much....waves of nausea but

now think it may be this stomach bug and not morning sickness

afterall....

Anyway, thank you all so much for the supportive and informative

posts. I don't know what I would do without you guys!!

Gwen