early pregnancy symptoms

[Thom86]

hi all

I am nearly 5 weeks pregnant and been having headaches that occur most nights ( mainly at one side ) also started getting slight cramps back and groin area , my scan isn’t got another 3 weeks so really anxious . Is these period type cramps normal x

[raverg]

They could be. Hard to say but I remember having little cramps / dull ache in the groin area too and my consultant said it’s likely due to the enlarged ovaries as they take ages to come down after a fresh transfer. Otherwise it could be the embryo digging itself in and the uterus stretching, while the headaches from the hormonal changes. Best of luck!

[Thom86 in reply to raverg]

Thanks so much just everything a worry at this stage xx

[Twiglet2]

hey I got headaches most of first trimester, was it a frozen transfer are you on eostrogen? I was on progynova and found that contributed to them a lot as well as the pregnancy hormones. Make sure there is iron in your multivitamin and you are getting enough water. I also moved my eostrogen tablets to night time so I could just lie down and sleep off the headache after them. I’m past the 12 weeks now and off then thankfully and headaches have gotten a lot better but hormones also calm down a bit.

Slight cramping is normal as everything starts to settle and stretch if sharp pains lasting more than an hour though defo speak to your clinic xx 💜

[Thom86 in reply to Twiglet2]

Thanks so much for this advice . They don’t last too long and they are nothing as severe as period cramps but today I woke up with the slightest brown discharge I mean really minimal . It was mixed with the remains of my pessary discharge . So obviously I started panicking . But nothing since . I just doubt everything at this stage xx

[raverg in reply to Thom86]

I would switch to using the pessaries rectally as they could be irritating your cervix. I had brown discharge for most of my first trimester and 2 episodes of red bleeding (one from a haematoma, one from the placenta growing over my cervix). There’s many reasons why there could be a brown discharge but I would start with switching the pessary use.