Falling down the stairs will make you pregnant
My sister fell down the stairs. Not uncommon, she's a bit accident-prone. And she knacked her left ankle. It blatantly wasn't broken or sprained, she could put her weight on it without crying in pain, but it did hurt and it was a bit swollen so she popped it in a tubigrip and waited for it to stop hurting.

Fast forward 10 days or so and it's still pretty swollen and sore, so she makes an appointment with her GP to get it checked out.
She goes along with our mam, explains what happened and points out that it's been swollen for a while now, for a twisted ankle.
"Are you pregnant?" Um. No.
"Do you have any of *reels off long list of pregnancy symptoms*?" Er, no? She fell down the stairs. Only a couple of stairs, she just slipped cause it's a shiny wood floor just outside the bathroom. We've all done the same.
"Alright...but are you sure you're not pregnant?"
(and now for someone completely different, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 15:24, 7 replies)

I recently
went to the doctors with bad indigestion and had to take a pregnancy test. Despite me telling them I'd had a period a week ago, and I'd had stomachache for 6 weeks. You know what? It was negative!
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 15:32, closed)

Those symptoms you describe
(PV bleeding + abdo pain) can be due to pregnancy. A pregnancy test is perfectly reasonable.
( sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 23:30, closed)

A friend of mine got the same when she went in for an unrelated illness one day
They finally stopped trying to get her to admit a pregnancy after she asked them to look up the date of her hysterectomy in her file.
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 15:48, closed)

All doctors ask that
no matter the complaint...female? you must be pregnant
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 16:13, closed)

defromity
There is a reason for this , if she has to go for an xray there can be problems with the fetus particulary in the very early stages if exposed to x rays.The doc was only covering his arse "just in case" but it sounds a bit ott
(welgar, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 16:21, closed)

So...
She's not pregnant then?
( snee held his breath since, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 16:23, closed)

Maybe
it was to do with ehr having a swollen ankle. Peripheral oedema is a common symptom of pregnancy. Having said that it's pretty standard for GPs to ask women if they're pregnant under ANY circumstance. Largely due to the huge range of things a pregnancy can present as.
(Hippo_of_Doom, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 13:29, closed)