How to Distinguish Pregnancy from PMS

Abbreviation PMS once and do not exploit as soon not decipher of all the symptoms characteristic of this phenomenon in the public mind was fixed only irritability and mood swings of course, when viewed from the side is the mood of the most noticeable. The women have to endure much more unpleasant moments, among which there is also pain.

And if it is only so because most of the symptoms of PMS are very similar to the early symptoms of pregnancy, and how to understand what exactly is the cause of women in a particular case?

PMS or Early Signs of Pregnancy

Let's try to become uproarious, where do these or other sensations in both cases. And at the end of the article made the summary table that will help determine what takes place: PMS or pregnancy.

Changing Eating Behavior

You're not pregnant right? This is almost a traditional phrase familiar to all, and often the changing tastes in food, thirst for new products and aversion to the familiar as one of the first signs of pregnancy, for that matter and premenstrual syndrome. Indeed, during PMS and early pregnancy, women can lean on sweet or salty. But the similarities probably end there.

Aversion to food , which is often caused by expectant mothers experiencing early toxicosis, and this symptom is rare to delay menstruation. Typically toxicosis begins (if any begins) at 5-6 weeks. This is due to the activity of the fruit. The system of removing waste products it has not yet been established, they go directly into the blood of mothers, causing mild intoxication. Relief comes to 4 months, when the placenta matures.

With regard to the traditionally drawn inedible products or products that have never loved a woman, as well as to non-standard combination, it is associated with the body's need for vitamin and or those elements. Moreover, this condition is also typical for a later date.

Thus eating behavior cannot be used as an indicator of PMS or pregnancy. The differences are obvious, though, but typical for a later date.

Breast Enlargement and its Sensitivity

The cause of the changes occurring with dairy wand is hormonal changes. Since these changes are common to both conditions, determine the symptom of pregnancy or PMS breast tenderness is nearly impossible. The only thing you can try to focus on the duration of the phenomenon. In the case of PMS breast nagrubaet for 1-2 days, and during pregnancy it is accompanied by a feeling of a woman nearly all the time. And it is easy to understand, because the chest all 9 months actively preparing for lactation.

Constant Tiredness

The cause of fatigue in early pregnancy is to raise the level of progesterone. In combination with a decrease in blood sugar and low pressure occurs such an effect. Obviously, before monthly level of this hormone in women is comparable with the first days of pregnancy, and therefore fatigue is taking place. With the start of menstruation progesterone level drops and the fatigue passes.

Unfortunately, constant fatigue and cannot answer the question of how to distinguish PMS from pregnancy. However, that is no reason not to pay attention to it. In the end, fatigue may be a symptom of a number of diseases, most of which are somehow connected with hormonal disorders. And such disease is not necessary to run.

Lower Abdominal Pain

In the middle of the cycle begins to prepare the uterus for implantation of the ovum, that is, on its walls rises mucosa. And before menstruation excess mucus gradually begin to flake off from the walls of the uterus; it causes pain in the lower abdomen for PMS.

In early pregnancy may also feel pain, but it is connected with the reverse process: the ovum attaches to the uterine wall, "burying" in the mucosa. Thus, abdominal pain - this is another common symptom. However, the nature of pain in both cases is different: pain during pregnancy is very soft, unobtrusive and short, just 1-2 days. During PMS pain can be very diverse, individual for each woman: someone stronger, someone weaker, someone she passes the first day, and someone suffering until the end of menstruation.

Backache

Strictly speaking, talking about back pain, as the general PMS symptoms and pregnancy is not entirely correct, as the small of the back starts to hurt pregnant towards the end of trimester 2, when increasing the load on the spine. During this period, PMS pregnancy has not confused.

Mood Swings

So we got to the "problem" for many of the symptoms. It is not difficult to guess the nature of this phenomenon hormone, it is typical for PMS and early pregnancy. However, a significant difference in this moment still is.

PMS is more characteristic for the negative part of the spectrum of emotions: anger, irritability, tears, and during pregnancy occurs exactly frequent changes of mood, sensitivity, and more powerful, vivid emotions. That is, the positive emotions as pronounced as negative.

On this you can end up with common symptoms. Now let's talk about what the different symptoms of pregnancy and PMS. Listed below are the symptoms that are specific to early pregnancy, and have no relation to the PM.

Frequent Urination

Frequent urination worried pregnant woman twice: at the end and at the beginning of pregnancy. But if with 3 terms all very clear, there presses on the bladder enlarged uterus, then where this symptom does at the beginning of the term, is not so obvious. Here blame the changing metabolism. The kidneys begin to work harder, because they have to withdraw wastes already two organisms, not just one.

Toxemia

This pregnancy symptom is already mentioned in the Article. And whether or not it has a lot to talk about? Indeed, this is one of the earliest signs of pregnancy, but it makes itself felt somewhat later, on the background of the delay period.

Bleeding

Strictly speaking, a woman's body "learns" about the pregnancy at the time of implantation of the ovum. Up to this point the fertilized egg does not come into contact with the mother. Since in implementing mucosal egg could damage the small blood vessels, in some cases accompanied by implantation of small bleeding.

To summarize: PMS symptoms and early pregnancy symptoms are very similar indeed, which greatly complicates the diagnosis of the latter. And if you take into account that not all of these symptoms are always "going" together and it becomes difficult to decide at all.

The body of each of the fair sex is different, not like the others. Accordingly, various changes and all react differently. Somebody did not feel any changes or during PMS or early pregnancy, and someone suffers every month.

Nevertheless, to make the sign, which lists and compares all the symptoms characteristic of pregnancy and PMS, it makes sense. It will help a little sort out the situation.

Symptom	PMS	Pregnancy
Changing attitudes to food	tyanet of sladkoe and salinity	changing attachments, pulls on salty and inedible
Sore breasts	disappears with the beginning of menstruation	accompanies the entire pregnancy
Fatigue	occurs a few days before menstruation	ranging from 4-5 weeks after conception
Bolin life	individually in each case,	soft, brief pain
Backache	Sometimes the pain of the abdomen gives back	occurs in the later stages
Mood swings	Irritability	frequent changes in emotional state
Frequent urination	-	consequence of changes in metabolism
Toxemia	-	begins at 4-5 weeks
Bleeding	-	about 2 weeks scarce, spotting

Generally, in the early stages of pregnancy diagnosis are very difficult. More or less exact symptoms begin after a delay menstruation, and those symptoms that begin before the delay is too ambiguous and require greater attention.

However, there is one way to distinguish the exact PMS pregnancy - rapid test. Home purchase test with high sensitivity, which react even at a low concentration of HCG.

In conclusion, once again I want to say that every woman is unique, and the best of herself in her body, no one will understand. PMS - a monthly phenomenon, and occur every time about one and the same scenario, so that the woman quickly learns guess approximation monthly. And, of course, she will notice if her body's behavior has changed. That it should be an occasion to do a test or see a doctor.