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yes. a few years ago, during a very difficult time in my family, my stress levels were so high that my ob-gyn thought I was pregnant because of high levels of a particular chemical in my blood. when all 3 pregnancy tests came back negative, I was sent to an endocrinologist because the levels of that chemical were so high, they thought I had a brain tumor. According to the endocrinologist, there's normal level of this chemical, a high level which usually pregnant women have because their bodies are stressed. He said my level was so beyond that, that my body thought it was in labor 24 hours a day. In his 30 years of being an endocrinologist, he'd only heard of levels as high as mine before. Oddly enough he gave me some really strong OTC calcium pills that knocked me out.