Nobody else to talk to...very confused.

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Registered: 03-09-2005
Nobody else to talk to...very confused.
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Mon, 05-14-2007 - 2:25pm

Hello!

I'm not sure where to start, but here goes. I've been on some form of birth control consistently for the past three years. The first two years I was on the patch, then was switched to the pill. I never have had a problem and my periods always came at the same time each month.

About three weeks ago (about 5 days before my period was due), I had some light bleeding that lasted for a couple of days. Didn't really think much of this and just saw it as some breakthrough bleeding. My husband and I had sex after the light bleeding ended and about two days before my period was due.

My period was due to come on Saturday, May 5. I did not get my period all weekend, but I honestly didn't think much of it because I thought it might have been delayed due to the light bleeding I had earlier. By Thursday of last week, I started worrying, as my period had never been this late before. I wasn't having any of my normal PMS symptoms, but I also wasn't feeling any sort of pregnancy symptoms.

On Friday night, I told my husband what was going on and we bought a home pregnancy test. It was negative. I did take it at night and not in the early morning, which I heard does affect the outcome. I decided that my cycle just got really screwed up somehow and that I would get my period at some point.

Last night things started to change. Still no period, but during the day, I started to get very nauseous. I barely ate a thing all day. I was having bad headaches and was very tired. I ended up getting sick last night around 8:30 pm and continued to throw up and be nauseous up until early this morning. My stomach is still slightly upset and I've eaten maybe 5 saltines all day. I've chalked this up to a stomach virus. I also have been experiencing some pain on the side of my abdomen, slight soreness of my breasts, and I've been really gassy even when I don't eat anything.

I don't know if this is all in my head and I'm overreacting. I keep telling myself I'll get my period today or the next day, or the day after that, but I'm starting to worry. This is very unusual and I don't know how my cycle, after 3 years, would just change all of a sudden. I'm hesitant to take another pregnancy test because a part of me is saying I'm not and that my period WILL come.

I'm sorry for rambling, but I don't have anyone to talk to about this and get advice. Does it sound like I might be pg, even if I've been on the pill for so long? Should I take another test?

Tanya

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Registered: 04-07-2003
Mon, 05-14-2007 - 2:44pm

Well, if I were you I would take another test. But just to share on some of my experience not to long ago my AF showed up a few days early (6 days). It just had very light spotting for about 4 days. Hardly had to use a pad and no cramping of any kind. Since with my 1st pregnancy I bleed through most of my first trimester, including an episode of really heavy bleeding that looked like a miscarrige to some (sorry tmi), I thought I was pg again. The day I was scheduled to get my AF came and went with nothing. I took a test and it was negative. Then the next AF came 23 days after my weird light spotting had begun. Now I am back on track with my regular AF.

So if you want take a test. If you are really not sure, speak to your doctor, maybe you can get a blood test done.
Good luck!

Rosey