Does anyone know (from experience or from something they have heard or read) how early you can detect pregnancy symptoms?? I have read online taht it is IMPOSSIBLE to notice them before a missed period, and for most of them, a week or two afterwards. I think I have heard from peoples personal experience that it is sooner. What do you think?

I didn't start getting pregnancy symptoms untill around the 8th week of my pregnancy... Other then my period being late there were no signals that i might be pregnant...

Deirdre,

Did the preg. test come back positive?? Or did you just not know until 8 weeks along? Were your brests sore before you missed your period'? Any info. would be greatly appreciated!

I found out through a pregnancy test when I was 5 weeks along. I had tested the week prior and saw no results, but somehow I just "knew" that I was pregnant. I could feel it. My breasts did not become sore until about the 7th week. I did however start urinating more frequently almost right after the positive test. And although I had VERY mild "morning" sickness, I didn't really notice much of that until the 8th week either. I was VERY tired starting at about 5 weeks or so though and that lasted until the 12th week.

Personally i have always been very bad at keeping track of when my period is supposed to start, it was actually my fiance who noticed i was late... It took me a while to finally work up the courage to get a pregnancy test, since i wasn't exactly trying to get pregnant, so it was probably around the 6th week or so that i did the test, and it was positive.

After that it took me another 2 weeks to actually get any symptoms, my breasts weren't sore at all before then, and no nausea either. When i did start having symptoms, they did getting pretty intense really fast.