A lesbian woman was stunned when she came up positive for a pregnancy test. Little did she know the road to the truth would be a bumpy one.
Reaching out to the AskDocs sub on Reddit, a 23-year-old lesbian woman revealed she was freaked out after testing positive on a pregnancy test. She was scared it was some form of cancer, that she was S.A or had intimate relationship and couldn’t remember.
The original poster (OP) explained that she wasn’t very intimately active but does sleep with a woman she’s sort of dating about twice monthly. The woman she was seeing was born female or cisgender, and she couldn’t get OP pregnant.
The last time the young woman recalled being intimately active with a male person was when she was in high school six years before. She explained that she was 5’3″, 140 lbs, and generally healthy. She took Zoloft at times and sometimes used non-prescription allergy medicine to give some background into her health.
The Redditor started throwing up on occasion around a month before but didn’t worry about it, thinking it was a stomach bug. However, when she finally visited a Tennessee clinic because she wasn’t getting any better, the Redditor was told she was pregnant. She tried explaining a pregnancy was impossible, but the staff that assisted her insisted she was. Since she didn’t keep track of her period, she wasn’t sure when it had last occurred. OP was due to see a gynecologist soon to confirm the pregnancy news, but because she was scared, she wanted immediate answers, adding: “I’ve been reading that there are some kinds of cancer that can cause a positive pregnancy test, but I can’t find a lot of information about them.”
She wanted to know if anyone could tell how likely that was. The only other possible reason was that she might’ve conceived in November 2023 when she drank at her female friends’ house, where a group of them had gotten together to watch a football game.
OP explained that she didn’t drink and drive, so she decided to sleep on her friend’s couch. The young woman also didn’t consume much alcohol, opting to have around three drinks, so she didn’t believe she blacked out. The friend whom she visited is a woman married to a man.
Trying to get to the bottom of the matter, OP texted her friend’s husband and asked him if they’d slept together, and she was too drunk to remember it. The confused man took offense and insisted he wouldn’t cheat on his wife or sleep with someone too drunk to recall the incident in the morning.
OP wanted to believe and trust him, but she was afraid he might’ve S.A her and was lying. The Redditor also revealed that abortion is iIIegal in her state and was hoping someone could tell her what was happening and if there was another reason for the positive test. In an update, she thanked readers for their helpful responses, which left her feeling less panicked despite still not knowing the truth. She now knew it could be something else besides cancer or pregnancy. OP was now at her parents’ home and feeling a little better. Her parents offered to assist her in getting an abortion in another state if she was expecting. The friend explained that she and her husband went to bed together while OP slept on their couch. OP’s pal said there was no way her husband did anything without the young woman knowing. The Redditor was unsure but felt better and worked on not distrusting her friend.
The Redditor said she found an appointment with urgent care, and her mother took her in. A pregnant test came out positive, but an ultrasound couldn’t confirm the news. OP was taken to the emergency room (ER) because her results with an empty uterus constituted a swift response.
Their main worry was that a fetus might be growing outside of OP’s uterus, and that is extremely dangerous. A transvaginal ultrasound couldn’t find a pregnancy, but blood work revealed her hormone levels were very high, while her potassium and iron were low. Staff thought they could see something on her right ovary and did laparoscopic surgery, leading to the whole ovary being removed(the tummor). OP felt she owed her friend an apology and was staying overnight at the hospital. However, she still had many questions, like how long pathology took and whether it was the same as a biopsy. She also wanted to know if the tumor was the reason for her vomiting or something else. OP spoke to her friends from the November 2023 sleepover, and they weren’t mad but worried about her thinking someone else had hurt her. The Redditor also informed the woman she’s been talking to, and all of that was on the right track.
