Menopause and The Pregnancy Hormone HCG

Do you ever feel like you are pregnant during your menopause? I did from day one. Just like I knew I was pregnant the day the child was conceived. How you ask?

I threw up.

Pregnancy nausea is different than hangover nausea or food poisoning nausea. Pregnancy nausea tends to linger, come in waves, and will hit you at any time of day…at least in me.

I absolutely, one hundred percent, hated being pregnant.

So, when menopause hit and gave me pregnancy symptoms, I said WTF?

There is no physical way for me to be pregnant. I have no uterus; my tubes are tied and I’m in my 5th year of menopause. Sure, an Ectopic pregnancy is possible but highly unlikely in that any pregnancy lasting 5 years plus would kill me.

When I told the first doctor I visited for menopause that I felt pregnant, he ordered a blood test, and it was found that I have an elevated HCG level. But he took convincing, they all do.

A year later, still the same symptoms, another blood test, still elevated HCG.

Five years later, the new doctor does a urine test…not pregnant. A blood test on the other hand, says I am.

The nausea continues.