Early pregnancy symptoms

Diabetes and Pregnancy Trying to Get Pregnant
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Hi, we just started TTC a couple of weeks ago and I have a funny feeling I might be pregnant already… I know it’s too early for a positive HPT but I was just wondering if anyone had similar symptoms before testing positive?

  • breathlessness (not during physical activity)
  • tiredness
  • feeling lightheaded at times
  • occasional headaches
  • my periods have been irregular since coming off depo provera injections. On day 16 of this cycle I had a couple of days’ light bleeding (though not enough to stain: possibly ovulation bleeding? the same thing happened the previous month and I did notice some mild stomach cramps on one side the night before).
  • From about day 22 I had several days of spotting (lighter than day 16). Usually my insulin requirements go up before my period and then drop by about 30% the day it arrives. Here my sugars were very steady before and during the spotting I had to increase my doses by quite a bit. Could this have been implantation bleeding?
  • when the spotting stopped, my blood sugars suddenly became perfect - (nothing over 8.0 (145) on the dexcom for 4 days) and after a couple of days of hypos I’ve reduced my basal by 30%.
  • after the spotting stopped I noticed a bit of milky discharge (sorry if that was TMI!)

I know this could all be in my head but it’d be nice to have a second opinion, especially as my periods aren’t regular and it won’t be obvious if I’m late. In the meantime I’ll keep testing every 3 days and do my best not to obsess over it!!!

Thanks for reading

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Hmm it’s hard to say,
To be honest with you the only symptoms I had was a dramatic increase in blood sugars and insulin needs, far more then normal for the week before my period but it didn’t go back down again. I had no spotting, and for all I knew I was just getting sick and getting my period at the same time. I had cramping like with my period a few days before my expected period as well. I was absolutely convinced I wasn’t pregnant, but I was wrong now I’m 6 weeks. I didn’t test positive till the day after, and it was faint, my cycles are like clockwork though. I usually get milky discharge as well but it has stopped since getting pregnant. Have you tried using an ovulation kit to see if and when you are? It took me a year almost before I was back to normal cycles after the depo shots. Hope this helped, we got pregnant first try when we used the ovulation kit.

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The only symptoms I had were extreme exhaustion, really low blood sugars all day long (which helped my pineapple craving from day one).

I usually go really high post ovulation but I knew from conception as my blood sugars dropped and I was continuously in the 60s everyday until week 9 or 10