What Are the Chances I Am Pregnant? Help Please...

Anytime you have sex there is a chance you can get pregnant. The only birth control that is 100% is not having sex. Good luck.

E., it sounds like you've done everything possible to prevent a pregnancy. Perhaps it would be worth a trip to the student health clinic for them to do a blood test so that you can know for sure, and you can ask them (or call a pharmacy and ask) if Plan B would interfere with your cycle, My guess is that the combination of Plan B and BCPs could be messing up your cycle but only a blood test would confirm for sure whether or not you have anything to worry about. Best of luck to you!

Plan B has a pretty effective rate - especially if you took it only an hour later. If you're a week late and you also have a negative pregnancy test, I would chalk up not getting your period to starting new birth control pills and nerves.

If you're concerned you can go in and do another pregnancy test in a few days or get a blood test to be absolutely sure.

Generally I started new birth control packs on the first day of my period. However, when I was younger, I sometimes started them at off times especially where my cycle was somewhat irregular. In those cases, it was not unusual for me to take a month or two to get a regular kind of cycle with a predictable period. Spotting could be your version of a period this month.

Good luck :)

So frustrating when condoms break, isn't it? Were you also using a spermicide?

it sounds like you went to the doctor or the college health services if you were given birth control pills to start right after the Plan B. So did they rule out pregnancy before giving you the pills? Usually you start pills after you get your period (which would be the period after the condom broke) - so I'm confused about the timing. By itself, spotting on low dose bc pills is common, and so are very light or even missed periods. And you are a new user so you don't have any established pattern of what your body is like on bc pills. There's an adjustment time anyway, sometimes for 2-3 months. So I'd run it by the doctor or clinic who prescribed the bc pills, and I'd probably use a condom in addition, just until you rule everything out.

Normally I would say to contact a Planned Parenthood for low cost care, but I see that you list an address in Texas. I don't know if that's your home or your college address, but if it's the latter, you may well be severely restricted due to state laws that have closed so many clinics. If your college health service is in any way restricted or if you cannot get to the prescribing physician, please call an 800 number for any women's health advocacy organization.

You're probably in the clear, but I commend you for reaching out when things aren't making much sense.

Just go pee on a stick already.

So you had your period and two weeks later you had sex, you took plan B and then started birth control. So it is now two weeks from then? In other words are you 9 days late from when you would have had your period before you started birth control or it has been six weeks since you took the plan B? Because if it is the former you aren't 9 days late.

It is possible that the hormones from the new birth control pills have tampered with your period and caused a delay, or only spotting, rather than a full-fledged period. There are also some birth control pills that completely eliminate your period and you get it just once a year, or something like that. Have you looked up information about the birth control pills? I am sure there is an insert that explains whether you may see spotting rather than a regular cycle in the beginning, or if you won't be seeing a cycle for a very long time, depending on the type of pill you are taking. If you still have questions, why not make an appointment with your ob/gyn or whoever got you that prescription for birth control so you can get further testing or ask any questions you may have? I honestly think you have nothing to worry about if you took Plan B and the pregnancy test was negative, but at least talking to a healthcare provider may put your mind at ease.

Hi E.,
If you've taken a home pregnancy test and has showed up negative, just to rest your mind at ease, you can take a blood test called HCG Qualitative, which is one test that doctors usually run to confirm pregnancy. Of course, it has to be ordered by a doctor. Hope that help.

Please just go to the student health center and ask for the test. OR go to your local county health department and ask for a free pregnancy test.

You have options if you are pregnant. It's NOT the end of the world even if you are and want to keep the pregnancy and raise the baby. It's sooo easy to have a child and go to college. It really is.

You can get into Married Student Housing and can even apply and get low income housing. When I was in college at OSU in Stillwater OK I lived on campus with all bills paid, including phone, tv, and utilities. My rent at one time was only $43 per month.

I got WIC and food stamps and was able to get free child care. Why do all that? So that I could get a degree and go out into the world to have a job, pay taxes, and be a good citizen. I got full financial aid at OSU and made good grades.

My daughter did okay too. I was young and inexperienced at parenting and made a LOT of mistakes but I didn't have any role models. I had a bad childhood and just didn't have any knowledge about being a parent. I hadn't even ever babysat kids.

If you are a good person who's had good parents and has had the opportunity to learn how to take care of little kids then you have as much knowledge as any other parent starting out.

So do NOT fear becoming a parent. Do NOT think you are a failure if you are. You can do this just like millions of other single parents. You could even work and pay your own way, I won't have a bit more respect for you though. Financial aid and education are much needed skills and getting them so you can become a better person and better parent/provider are the best way to grow into the role of parent.

As for the guy. If he's not ready he's not ready. If he is ready and you want to try to see if you love each other enough to start a life together then go for it. There isn't ANY reason to not go forward. If you are on your own that's okay too. You won't be the only single parent at college. Many women and men have kids and go to school full time with financial aid, housing, any benefits they can get.

If he doesn't want to then you are going to have to learn to stand up and make choices. Good or bad, you have to do that.

If you decide you don't want to be a parent then can I please just suggest adoption? Do you know a cousin? Aunt? Sister? Friend? Friend of a friend? That want to have kids but just can't seem to get pregnant? They might be a perfect family for your little one. You can even talk to people in social services about adoption. IN Oklahoma if you adopt your child through the state they pay all the adoption fees. We can even have open adoption where you can be part of this child's life if you want.

There is always abortion. I do not want anyone telling me what I can or cannot do with my own body but I feel that a baby is a baby the moment it is conceived. I concede that many don't see a few tiny cells as that child but I do. Please think long and hard about how you'll feel in a year, 5 years, etc...about that sort of decision.

Finally, the first thing to do is get tested. Find out if you have a little one growing inside you. Then you have a world of options to consider.

.

Home pregnancy tests are pretty accurate. Try not to worry too much. If you really don't want to get pregnant at this time in your life, you should double up on the birth control. Take the pill regularly and use condoms.

Many women will tell you that just starting birth control will make your periods wonky the first few months. You threw your body off when A. you took the Plan B (no big deal here) and then B. introduced the birth control hormones.

You will notice that in your pack of birth control pills, you have one row of lighter/differently colored pills at the end. That is a very low/no dose of hormones so that your menses will occur. The days 1-21 pills are a higher dose of the hormones and it is likely menses will not occur because you aren't timing your pills to your cycle.

As everyone else has said, the chances of your being pregnant are minimal. However, I think you should go talk to a GYN or Planned Parenthood about how your cycle and birth control work. Get more information because once you introduce these hormones and start on BC, timing is a considerable factor. That's why people usually start their pills at the beginning, so they have the 'end' timing synched up to their periods.