No period, but negative pregnancy test??
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No period, but negative pregnancy test??
| Mon, 05-10-2004 - 6:58pm |
Hello to everyone out there!
My confusing problem: I've been off birth control for 5 months due to the side affects and after my last period while on birth control I begin having regular periods. Me and my significant other use condoms everytime with NO exceptions. The condom has never broke and we check it after sex everytime to make sure of that. This month I was suppose to start mt period (my cycle is around 34 days) on the 3rd, but nothing came. I went and bought a pregnancy test that shows results up to 5 days before your period. I took the first test the night I was suppose to get my period and it came out negetive. I then took another test 2 day later thinking that maybe the HCG in my urine hadn't showed up yet and it came out negetive as well. Then I took another one about three days later since my period still didn't shown and it was negative once agian. So my questions are: What, besides pregnancy, causes a missed period? How accruate are home preganancy test? Has anyone else had this experince before? I have another test and am going to wait and take in a week from now if my period hasn't shown by then.
Thank you for your time!
L.N.C.
My confusing problem: I've been off birth control for 5 months due to the side affects and after my last period while on birth control I begin having regular periods. Me and my significant other use condoms everytime with NO exceptions. The condom has never broke and we check it after sex everytime to make sure of that. This month I was suppose to start mt period (my cycle is around 34 days) on the 3rd, but nothing came. I went and bought a pregnancy test that shows results up to 5 days before your period. I took the first test the night I was suppose to get my period and it came out negetive. I then took another test 2 day later thinking that maybe the HCG in my urine hadn't showed up yet and it came out negetive as well. Then I took another one about three days later since my period still didn't shown and it was negative once agian. So my questions are: What, besides pregnancy, causes a missed period? How accruate are home preganancy test? Has anyone else had this experince before? I have another test and am going to wait and take in a week from now if my period hasn't shown by then.
Thank you for your time!
L.N.C.

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Tanks for the time you have taken out to reply,
L.N.C.
~Josie
Weight gain and loss are two great ways to change your menstrual cycle, and if either of those has happened that may be a cause.
Once, before i was on OC, I skipped a period because I went on cycle with my sister while i was home for winter break from college, and she'd had her period before coming home. when i went back to school three weeks later, i changed cycles because of a friend of mine, and ended up going a full 8 weeks between periods! it was stressful, but sometimes girls can affect each other like that. are you spending a lot of time with any new women? you might just be susceptible to moving onto others' cycles.
also, stress (such as the stress of a missed period) can delay your menstruation, too.
It's all very frustrating, but it seems like you've laid out a great game plan for figuring this out, and I think only time will tell.
Good luck!
I really appreciate it. You are right, only time will tell, but in the mean time it's going to drive me crazy!!!! (laugh!)
Thanks agian,
L.N.C.
Something else you can do for the future (to help you with the wait) is to start keeping track of fertility indicators--the easiest is cervical mucous. As Josie mentioned, when you're ovulating, you should have more discharge, and it's got a peculiar texture, like egg whites, and it won't be that way at any other time of the month (otherwise it might just be wet or sticky or lotiony, etc.). A period should follow this type of discharge by about two weeks or so. Other fertility indicators are cervical position and basal body temperature--for a good book on the subject you might find "Taking Control of Your Fertility" by Toni Weschler, it goes into great detail about how the menstrual cycle works and how to (or not to) get pregnant.
Good luck! I hope it's nothing...
Judie
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