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Hi! I'm 23 years old and I recently just lost my virginity to my boyfriend, and by recently, I mean about 2 weeks ago. We used protection and he is not a virgin, so he knew what to do with the condoms. We did it again a few hours later. Both times, we used protection and the condoms didn't break, but he came both times. However, I did it about 1.5 weeks after my first day of my last period, which, according to my period app, means that the chances of getting pregnant is a lot higher. I also gave him a couple of blowjobs and I think I might have swallowed his cum. I'm worried that I might be pregnant because I'm 3 days late now on my period. So now, I'm having one of the biggest paranoia ever. It's normal for me to be a couple of days late, by the way. I have taken home pregnancy tests a day after my period was expected, the day after, and another one today. They all came out to be negative. But I read that they might be false negatives if I took them too early in the pregnancy. I've been really stressed about this and to top it all off, I am in my midterm exams period at school. I haven't been sleeping more than 4-5 hours a night, but that's usually normal for me. But lately, I haven't really been motivated to go to my morning classes and I started skipping classes to sleep a little bit more. I started seeing symptoms in myself, such as back pain, acne, and fatigue. I don't know if I'm I over thinking it or not? I feel so alone because I don't want to talk about it to my boyfriend just because I might just be over thinking it, which I always tend to do. I get very anxious when something that is out of the ordinary happens around me. I would always start thinking about the worst case scenario. I feel like I'm tricking my brain to think that I am pregnant. I really need to talk to someone about it, but I don't want my parents and friends to judge me. Thankfully, I found this thread online. The articles that I've been reading online haven't really been a great help. They made me even more scared. I don't know what to do now. It's really affecting my daily life.

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