Does this sound like eptopic pregnancy

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I'm starting to get extremely nervous.. I just always viewed myself as an unlucky person. Last year, I got pregnant and miscarried at 13 weeks due to trisomy 13/18. Now I'm pregnant again, exactly a year later and can't help but worry about another miscarriage. I'm 5 weeks and 1 day. Last night, my uterus started to feel achy/sore. But it's more sore on the left.. I thought that it was just my uterus stretching because even from 5 weeks and 1 day to 5 weeks and 2 days, the baby grows significantly. But now I'm scared that I might have an eptopic pregnancy. From what I've read, you typically don't know until around 6 weeks or later and a symptom is diarrhea which I had 2 days ago. But I also read that's normal for how far I am in my pregnancy. I haven't had any bleeding or any severe pain, it just all feels sore. But since I'm such a worrier I'm thinking the worst. Every little cramp scares me. I don't have many symptoms of being pregnant except I'm a lot gassier and constantly have the hiccups. Is what I'm feeling normal? How to ectopics feel? My prenatal appointment isn't until May 3rd, and the woman who made my appointment said "call us if anything changes" and I feel like right there she cursed me!

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You'd have severe pain with an ectopic. I had some pain early on that was primarily on one side and was like oh no what if it's an ectopic but nope just round ligament pain. I know it's hard not to jump to the worst conclusion lol. But as long as you're not bleeding and in severe pain like I said you're fine! Cramping is usually normal too if you do have any, I had cramping the whole first trimester. Good luck girl try not to stress

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All of my cramping was on the left side until about ten weeks. I went in for an early ultra sound at six weeks and four days and they found that I had a cyst on my left ovary causing the pain on that side. Because I had the same fear you did. Even with the spotting on and off I had from five weeks to nine weeks I have a perfectly healthy baby growing. I'm a huge worrier also. But stressing yourself out is not good for you or baby. If something is going to happen it's going to happen. There's nothing you can do to prevent it unfortunately so just try and relax.

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I thought I was having one because I was having light spotting and a ton of pain on my left side, they did an ultrasound and found a decent sized cyst on my ovarie. I'm now 12w3d and my cyst is gone!

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In addition to all the useful advice provided, I want to ask if you find googling is helping or making your worry worse?  I miscarried in late June at 10.5 weeks and then fell pregnant within two months.  I was beside myself with every symptom that I'm miscarrying again.  I'd google symptoms looking for reassurance and end up finding more things to worry about.  Sometimes too much info isn't a good thing.  My husband made me promise not to Google anymore during first trimester- if I'm worried to go to the dr.  It was hard having to sit with uncertainty, but I stopped being focussed on everything that can go wrong and was less stressed (don't you hate it when they are right!).
You know what is best for you, and just because this helped me doesn't mean it it right for you :-).  I hope the remainder of your pregnancy is healthy and goes well.

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I had all my cramping on one side and I was worried about ectopic, too. My dr explained that that side is most likely where the egg came from and it can leave behind a small cyst that can cause one sided cramping. I think if you were ectopic you would have extreme pain and bleeding.

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Doesn't sound ectopic to me. Usually there's fever, fainting, and unbearable pain.

Does this sound like eptopic pregnancy

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