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Are there ways to differentiate early pregnancy symptoms from symptoms you get right before starting your period?
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The only way: To truely differentiate those symptoms is to do a serum or urine HCG test.Breast tenderness and swelling, cramping, and and many other early pregnancy symptoms are the same as period symptoms.If you are close to your scheduled period, you can do a home pregnancy test to find out. Use a first morning urine specimen for best results. Doc can do a blood test that is more sensitive if urine negative.
Answered 7/3/2016
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