Should I be concerned!?!?

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Registered: 09-10-2006
Should I be concerned!?!?
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Sun, 09-10-2006 - 4:21pm
Ok so I have a very serious concern...and I don't know if I should be worried or not. I just started taking Yaz recently, and before I took it my periods were always very regular and light, usually only 2-4 days, or around that. Anyways, Yaz only has 4 placebo pills at the end, it is a 24 day cycle. So I just finished my 3rd pill pack, and last month I got my period on the 3rd placebo day, and it only lasted less than a day...maybe a day and a few hours, but not long at all. This month, I didn't get my period at all. I think there may have been a little tiny bit of blood I noticed on the last day of my pill pack, but it was only a drop or 2. I have had sex more often than usual this past month, but have used condoms EVERY TIME and taken my pill regularly, not missed one, and always on time, the same time every night. What my friends are telling me is that since I already had a very light period that it is just now getting into my system and that since it is made for people with heavier periods that this will just cut mine down to practically nothing...I am having premenstrual symptoms, a little nausea, but nothing terrible that makes me think I may be pregnant...and I already started my next pack, so I know it's not coming, even though I have felt like it was for days now...so I am just really confused because I have never missed a period and I mean it is great if this pill will cut it down to nothing but I just want to know if this is normal...I am being so safe, safer than anyone else I know, which is why I am a little confused and just need some answers, PLEASE!!! Sorry this is so lengthy, but this is all new to me...Thanks for any help!!
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Registered: 08-12-2002
Mon, 09-11-2006 - 6:42am
Nope, sounds like you are OK :).

 


 


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Registered: 05-16-2006
Mon, 09-18-2006 - 9:23am
Ok, so I was still very worried and decided to take a HPT. I took 2, one last night because I couldn't wait, and one first thing this morning. The one last night was definitely negative, even though the line was lighter than the control line. Then this morning I took another one and it was also negative, but it was Very faint, and for a while there was a teeny faint horizontal line at the very top above the negative line. It was NOT going vertically but I still wonder if that's ok. The negative line stayed but didn't get any darker but the other one disappeared. Is that ok, and did it matter that the gnegative line was faint? And does it matter which brand you use really? Because it has been about 12 or so days past when I didn't get my complete period, like I said. So I would think if I was it would show up pretty well, especially first in the morning. Anyways, thanks again for any reassurance..I just haven't been able to relax and I keep trying to diagnose myself but I am thinking I am creating symptoms in my head because I am so nervous. Thanks anyway, sorry for the lenght again!
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Registered: 09-25-2004
Mon, 09-18-2006 - 10:39pm

If its negative, its negative. It could just be that you didn't pee enough on the stick. And I don't think that brand has any effect. I've used just about any brand from the Wal-Greene's kind to Target brand to the grocery store generic brand! LOL A negative is the same anywhere.

If you are worried wait a week and test again. But if you are using condoms, I don't see where the problem is. Plus you are on the pill. So those two methods together should kill any super sperm that swim your way.

Like the previous poster said, it sounds like your body is just adjusting. Plus, isn't YAZ using a different hormone than traditional BCPs? That could be what its all about.

Relax. You're pregnancy-proofed! :)

-Jennie-