Pregnancy Paranoia

[sandy689]

Hello! I am 19 years old and I am in a long distance relationship, so I have sex about once a month. The last time I had sex was almost two months ago now. I am on the pill, and I have taken it PERFECTLY (within ten minutes of 10:30) every night for about a year now. I have gotten my period every Thursday of my placebo pills.
However, I unfortunately stumbled across the wrong tweet, which said that a girl went into the doctor for stomach pains and came out with an ultrasound of a baby, and below were tons of comments about how you can get your period and still be pregnant, etc, and now I’m completely paranoid. Like, haven’t been able to sleep the past few days paranoid.
The past few days or so I’ve been slightly dizzy (although I’ve been barely eating/drinking because of work), I’ve gained a little belly weight (but I haven’t worked out in a while) and my past two periods have been a little lighter and came a little later in the day (but I’ve been extremely stressed and these past few periods were the first ones adjusted onto a new brand of pill so I’m bound to have variations in my period). I have explanations for all of my symptoms but I’m just absolutely peeved out. I’m too scared to take a pregnancy test, even though I’m pretty sure I’m not I’m just so scared that I’ll be that one case, the girl who happened to get pregnant on birth control and didn’t notice any major symptoms till it was too late. I mean my breasts aren’t tender, I’m not peeing more often, I’m not nauseous...I just need to hear a professional opinion about what the chances are that I could be pregnant and if/when I should bother testing.

[Sam W]

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