This month feels different. I’m 8DPO right now (haven’t tested yet, it’s midnight so I’m barely 8DPO lol) and I have trouble distinguishing symptom spotting and not, but this month it was genuine.

Around 5dpo I had a lot of white discharge, 6 dpo I was cramping and it felt so much like my period cramps I thought I might have started WAY early, so I kept checking. 7dpo, nothing. Everything was back to normal. No cramping, little to no discharge, which is really abnormal for me at this point in my cycle. I typically dry up after ovulation completely until my cycle starts again.

My question is.. how much of this could be attributed to pregnancy, and how much is just hormonal fluctuations? I’ve never been pregnant, so I don’t know if it means anything at all. But it’s definitely different from my normal. I usually don’t even cramp until day 2 of my period. I definitely had some pain in my pelvis this month during ovulation too, not unbearable and nothing like my period cramps. Kind of felt like it did when I had an ovarian cyst, just a LOT milder. Which I guess it could have been a small cyst too.