Pregnant on the pill?

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Pregnant on the pill?
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Mon, 11-03-2003 - 12:32pm
HI Everyone, I had a question for those who know about the pill. I have read that if you miss a pill it can make you ovulate. Well my problem is I missed 2 pills and had sex those two days and the next day also. Well when I realized my mistake I took two pills that day (3rd day). However I had already started spotting which then became heavy spotting. So I stopped taking the rest of my pills because I only had 2 pills left anyway before my sugar pills started. My question is what are my chances of being pregnant if any? I have been spotting for 5 days now. Do you think I need to test for pregnancy? If so how many days should I wait because they say to wait so many days after ovualation but I do not know when I ovulated!! Please help!!
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Mon, 11-03-2003 - 1:37pm
Hello clb5412,

I Think i'm in the same boat as you...and it's rockin....I don't know much about the pill, but yes I do know that if you miss a pill it could make you ovulate....but that's not what happened to me, lately well the past few weeks I've been taking my pill at different times, ranging any where from 5 to mid night, and I dont know if that is as bad as missing a pill or just the same, but I have had symptoms like your's...I started out with bloating and light headed, my stomach would talk so much I thought it was going to eat me from the inside out.....and than I started eating like crazy, and finally my period...oh yes that...It was supposed to start Friday morning, all I go all Friday was light spotting....so we tested, negative.....and the next day it started heavyer, but than now it's light again, I only fille dup two tampons instead of about 7 which isn't normal, my cycle is 28 day's, and I only have my AF for 4 day's, so it started spotting Firday, got a little heavyer Saturday, slowed down Saturday night Sunday morning, and Sunday around 3ish filled another tampon and now there's hardly anything...you're heavy spotting was it like your period, well not really like you're period, but did you think it was starting and all the sudden it stopped or slowed down to pretty much nothing?? I don't know what's going on...things could be really messed up cause a few months ago I had a UTI and I took antibiotics which can cause the pill to fail, and I went to the doctor the middle or OCtober for a back injury at work and go tested again for a UTI and got some more antibiotics...things have just been really ir-regular lately and I'm kinda worried...well not worried, I'd be more than happy if I were pregnant, and I'll be happy for you and wish you good luck, you'll have to tell me what you find out, I'll keep you up-dated, sorry if I didn't help you much, It's just you're the only other person that's having the same thing happen....I don't know when to test cause yes you're supposed to wait I guess 15 day's after you ovulate, but I don't know when the last time was for me either..???

Shana

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Mon, 11-03-2003 - 1:46pm
Well if you did ovulate, it would have been withing the few days that you missed the pills but its hard to guess exactly when you could have if you did. I would wait at least 2 weeks before you test, that will be 14 days, and most will get a positive by then if there pregnant. I took a test at 16 days and got a very dark positive, so if I had tested sooner I believe I would have gotton a positive also. But I would say in your case that 2 weeks should do it. But then again, it says that if you miss 2 or more pills to use another form of protection for 7 days...meaning that you could ovulate anytime during that period.
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Mon, 11-03-2003 - 2:41pm
Hi again!! I am sitting here trying to wait to test but my nerves are getting the best of me. To answer your question Shana my period has stayed the same all 5 days. It has been only enough to use a pantyliner,(well it fills it). Which normally I use a tampon at least one day most months the first two days of it. I just wonder what my chances were missing the two pills and then having sex the next three days. I wonder if there is a high probability of pregnancy with missed pills or if it is just a warning or scare tactic they use to get you to take them on time. I mean I have forgotten to take them a couples hours late, and sometimes 24 hours late but never two in a row, and then having intercourse. Does anyone know of anyone who has gotten pregnant while on the pill either using them correct or missing some? I would love to know my chances of being pregnant. It so scary yet exciting!!
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Mon, 11-03-2003 - 2:55pm
So your period being the same all 5 day's and mine going off and on for 3 day's, could be the same thing...I mean the same amount...I don't know what to do, I'd like to test but I know it's too early again, and I hate disappointment, when I saw the negative I wanted to cry, but than I didn't cause I don't know what else could be wrong with me.....if it's a cyst I'd be devistated! I don't know what to tell you, sorry I'm not that big of a help, but we're almost in the same boat and we're going thru most of the same things, we're wondering and nervous and excited all at the same time...???

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Mon, 11-03-2003 - 3:46pm
hi i am just posting this to give you some info...i got preg with #2 while taking birth control pills...the only reason i found out i was preg was because i continued taking the pill and the more i took the more i bled which was weird and not the way pills supposed to work..so i went to dr and told her..she tested me and i was preg.......so preg and still taking pills will cause you to bleed.....hope this may help a little
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Mon, 11-03-2003 - 3:50pm
Hey ihatewaiting,

you said you'd bled when you were pregnant while still taking the pill, do you mean, or did you firgure it out when you're period was supposed to start and it started and it just continued after you were supposed to stop? Or did it just happen like in the middle of your next package of pills??

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Mon, 11-03-2003 - 10:42pm
i've been kind of wondering the same thing. my last normal af was 8/20, and i was on the pill, the last two were lighter than normal and one only lasted 3 1/2 days instead of the normal 6 or 7 and i had some bleeding in between which i hadn't had since my first month on them (was on about a year). i've had lots of "pregnancy symptoms", but i took one home test and one doc office urine test which were both negative. i quit taking my pills about 3 weeks ago - waiting to see if i get another af now. i've pretty much decided that if i don't have one by the end of this month (if i kept the 28 day cycle, i'd be due for AF 11/12), i'm at least taking another home test and if it's still neg, i'll probably wait til mid-december (unless i get some insurance - i might have medicaid after friday! yay!) to go back to the doctor if she still hasn't shown her ugly face. one girl that i work with is convinced that i'm pregnant...she's so cute. like today, i was like "i can't take it anymore." and she was like, "does everything bother you?" and i was like "yeah kinda." she just looks at me and goes "take another test." *sigh* maybe one of these days i'll find out for sure whether i'm pregnant or crazy or something else. it seems like there has to be something causing it!

*anna~rae*

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Tue, 11-04-2003 - 11:18am
Hi again, I was just wondering what kind of symptoms if any that you all were having. I have read so much information about pregnancy symptoms and how early they should start, but I feel like I have some of them already. I am sure it is too soon, but I don't feel "right" if that makes any sense. I keep having these hot flashes, with waves of nausea. I also have just a small tinge of stomach quessiness unless my stomach is full, not too full though. I broke down and tested yesterday. Of course it was negative!! I should have known!! Especially since I do not know when I would have ovulated. I just wanted to know if anyone else was feeling any symptoms or had any other weird signs that could indicate pregnancy? Thanks for your input, Courtney!!