I am new here and honestly I have no idea what I'm doing right now but I have a question and it's been bothering me for some time now.
Recently a close friend and I spent the weekend of the 30th together. I stopped taking my pill a month ago to take a break from my 8 year consistancy.
I started my period two weeks ago. I finished the Tuesday....27th of December. I started my pill again the day before that....26th December. The 30th, 31st and 1st my friend and i ended up sleeping together with no protection. He came in me on the 1st and then the day after that i went out and got myself the morning afterpill. I've been taking my pill every morning at the same exact time without missing it. Is there by anychance that i could be pregnant or am i in any risk of it???
I have only ever taken the morning after once and immidiately i started .....this time i didn't and right now i am freaking out.
Overthinking Perhaps?
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Re: Overthinking Perhaps?
Alex: We will not answer ANY questions about pregnancy fear or anxiety in our direct services from users who are not pregnant or who are not or have not otherwise been directly involved with an actual pregnancy.
Please do not post this kind of question. If you are seeing this text, and your thread is locked, it is because you have posted this kind of question.
We CAN and WILL talk about things like:
• choosing and using a method or methods of contraception for any future sexual activity
• creating your own sexual limits and boundaries based on your needs and/or presenting them to any partners
• making sexual choices that suit your own needs, abilities and limitations, including your own readiness for certain possible risks
• help locating or using emergency contraception if and when you have had a pregnancy risk
• discussing options with a real, existing pregnancy, and help finding and accessing those options, such as abortion services and pre-natal care, or discussing feelings or concerns about a past pregnancy
• help with anxiety like locating mental health services, sound self-help or asking for support from friends or family
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However: it's important to know, just per addressing facts about emergency contraception, that it does NOT create bleeding or bring about periods as part of how it works, if that's what you mean by having "started" the last time you used it. Sometimes bleeding or spotting happens as a side effect, and sometimes people may find it throws off their menstrual cycles. Sometimes people may get periods after taking it because that's when their period was due. And when spotting from EC happens, it is not proof it is effective. It is effective for people who have spotting or bleeding with it, and also for those who have none.
It is also not surprising you aren't having a period now, because you just had one two weeks ago.
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For help dealing with a scare (including what poses a risk and your next steps based on your unique situation), you may use our tool on site built for this purpose: The Pregnancy Panic Companion.
For help with anxiety, click here.
For related help and information at Scarleteen, click here.
If you would like more information about this policy, click here.
Please do not post this kind of question. If you are seeing this text, and your thread is locked, it is because you have posted this kind of question.
We CAN and WILL talk about things like:
• choosing and using a method or methods of contraception for any future sexual activity
• creating your own sexual limits and boundaries based on your needs and/or presenting them to any partners
• making sexual choices that suit your own needs, abilities and limitations, including your own readiness for certain possible risks
• help locating or using emergency contraception if and when you have had a pregnancy risk
• discussing options with a real, existing pregnancy, and help finding and accessing those options, such as abortion services and pre-natal care, or discussing feelings or concerns about a past pregnancy
• help with anxiety like locating mental health services, sound self-help or asking for support from friends or family
* * *
However: it's important to know, just per addressing facts about emergency contraception, that it does NOT create bleeding or bring about periods as part of how it works, if that's what you mean by having "started" the last time you used it. Sometimes bleeding or spotting happens as a side effect, and sometimes people may find it throws off their menstrual cycles. Sometimes people may get periods after taking it because that's when their period was due. And when spotting from EC happens, it is not proof it is effective. It is effective for people who have spotting or bleeding with it, and also for those who have none.
It is also not surprising you aren't having a period now, because you just had one two weeks ago.
* * *
For help dealing with a scare (including what poses a risk and your next steps based on your unique situation), you may use our tool on site built for this purpose: The Pregnancy Panic Companion.
For help with anxiety, click here.
For related help and information at Scarleteen, click here.
If you would like more information about this policy, click here.
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