Thursday, July 7, 2016

Why don’t I have any pregnancy symptoms? – The New Times

Dear Doctor,

I simply located out I am 3 weeks pregnant after performing 2 examinations and they came out positive. What’s worrying me is I absolutely have actually no symptoms at all. No cramps, no sore breasts, no tiredness, no nausea…nothing.

Is this normal? Is the pregnancy okay?

Diana

Dear Diana,

There are numerous symptoms of early pregnancy, enjoy morning sickness which is among the the majority of common symptoms of early pregnancy. Nausea and or vomiting can easily occur in the morning or any type of time of the day. This could be associated along with burning discomfort in the chest or abdomen.  There could be a bloating sensation of the abdomen, cramps in the reduced abdomen and legs as it occurs throughout menses.

Taste can easily grab altered along with inclination for certain meals and repulsion to some foods. Yearning can easily create for certain meals to the extent that some women create Yearning and cannot prevent themselves from eating, also inedible products enjoy clay, mud or lime.

Some women can easily have actually altered bowel habits, thus creating constipation in early pregnancy.  The breasts can easily come to be swollen and painful to touch.

Due to the improve in volume of blood circulating in the body, a load is place over the kidneys causing enhanced urination.

In addition, if there is urinary tract infection, that adds on to the frequency of urination. As a result of increased blood circulation, inner lining of the nose can easily come to be swollen, dry and stuffy. Sometimes this can easily trigger nose bleeds.  Mild to major problem might occur. Backache can easily likewise occur throughout pregnancy As a result of laxity of ligaments of the Spine and increased requirement of calcium.

One might have actually mood modifications and emotional instability. This can easily manifest as a tendency to cry over trivial things, feel depressed also if lonely for a short time, etcetera. There is increased somnolence and one might feel enjoy sleeping throughout the day, also after an excellent night’s rest.   Along along with one or much more of these problems, there could be early fatigue.

Though pregnancy is diagnosed after passing up a period, some people can easily experience mild vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy, which occurs As a result of implantation of fertilised ovum in the inner lining of the uterus.  This typically stops by the end of the initial trimester, yet might rarely go on later as well.

All these symptoms occur As a result of hormonal modifications occurring throughout pregnancy. yet they are not automatically indicators of pregnancy. If just one has actually missed a period then has actually one or much more of these problems, pregnancy is suspected and confirmed by a beneficial pregnancy test. They can easily likewise herald an impending sickness. 

Some women can easily experience one or much more of these symptoms at start of menstruation as well. There could be no symptoms in an early pregnancy, yet the pregnancy would certainly be regular and proceed normally. This happens to be as in your case. A clinical examination and ultrasound can easily confirm the pregnancy to be normal.

  Dr Rachna is a specialist in  internal medicine at Ruhengeri Hospital.

rachna212002@yahoo.co.uk