| I am still so sick. Whole body hurts, all day feeling of nausea combined with hunger, ability to eat way more than normal (because of the gastric bypass, I usually can’t eat much – only changed when I was pregnant with Pumpkinhead), wicked sore breasts, peeing constantly (and constantly thirsty), aversion to alcohol, heightened sense of smell and abdominal pressure. Oh yeah, and I’m 5 days late for my period. Fuck a duck.
Babycenter says that it is common for some people to have negative HPTs for a full week or so after their period is due. All Experts says that it could be something else mimicking pregnancy symptoms, such as a hormone imbalance, thyroid problem, etc. Either way, all I know is that I have now moved from slight concern to completely FREAKING OUT. Especially as my moods swing wildly from crying to bitchy to normal and I’m so tired and cranky. Obviously if this happened, God is taking my original statement several months ago that Mr. V is so perfect I want to marry him and have his babies at face value (um, Dude, there is such a thing as timing and order of things!) And apparently condoms are NOT 99.9% effective. 
Only like 85% in everyday practice. Shee-it!
I can hear my mother now…(whore!) Anyway, not panicking completely (lol) about this Single Mom Nightmare until I know what is going on. Could just be some weird new symptom of my existing weird health issues, especially with the whole body pain. But the last time I felt this way was when I was pregnant with Pumpkinhead and I never, NEVER get nauseated (not even in his pregnancy) so I am just freaked. Calling Ob/Gyn tomorrow to see if she can get me in because the HPTs keep coming up negative but I sure can’t go on worrying like this (not to mention with no period!) I also had some issues with hormone levels being very low while pregnant with Pumpkinhead so it’s not unusual for me, but still extraordinarily frustrating. Praying for a good outcome… whatever the heck that means because right now there are no totally good potential outcomes (except perhaps a weird virus that resolves itself by the end of the week, never to return).
(CBS News/Consumer Reports had this to say as well: “Although CR calls the First Response test “a superior choice, it warns, Women need to use home pregnancy test kits with a clear understanding of their limitations. It explains that testing for hCG is not the same in all women. In 10 percent of pregnant women, the embryo does not implant until after the first day of a missed period (and again, hCG is not produced until the embryo implants in the uterine wall). Until implantation, it doesn’t matter how sensitive the test is, CR says, You can’t detect the pregnancy before it’s producing the stuff that you’re measuring, which is hCG.) And that is the problem I had with Pumpkinhead.
