pregnant?

[sam2568]

so ive been dating this guy for like 3 weeks now...it feels like we've known each other forever hes like my best friend and we get along reallly welll...we had sex the first real time we hung out which was graduation night...a little over 3 weeks ago...the condom fell off...we didn't really think anything of it cause i was on birth control...but it was for headaches so i guess it wasn't a very strong dose...welll then i found out my birth control was causing me severe depression and has been for almost a year...so i stopped taking it over a week ago...welll i was expecting to get my period a few days after i stopped taking it cause thats usually what happens...well im still waiting...my boobs started to hurt recently...and i constantly have to pee...im really tired...i have cramping...kinda like period cramps but worse...i throw up most mornings...and i have really bad mood swings...i tried to ignore all my symptoms...but then one day i noticed i was spotting...i got a little bit of blood randomly throughout the day for a couple days...i was hoping it would turn into my period but it never did...the spotting and throwing up stopped but i still have everything else...could i be pregnant? or what else could it be? help!!

[Ducy]

Ok just because your taking bcp to treat pmdd or pms symptoms doesn't mean it won't protect you.

Second off, the odds of you already showing symptoms of pregnancy so soon are fairly low. And sperm only survives a max of 7 days in a womans body. So let's look at this mathematically. 2 weeks =14 days...14 is greater than 7...sperm are dead.

As far as the stopping the bcp. Was that your medical diagnoses or your doctor diagnosing the pills as the cause for depression? It seems fairly strange that he would just kick you off the pill and not give you a new rx. My ex went through 6 types. Each time she was given another rx from her doc. She wasn't told to just "stop" and not take anything else.

also why in the hell didn't you stop immediately? You weren't in a monogamous long term relationship. You knew the guy 3 weeks. I doubt you were both tested, and if you didn't think the bcp was "strong enough" since it was just for headaches, then why would you let him keep going?

Do some reading around the site. Especiall the bcp stickies and the new to sex stickies. Methinks you need some sexual education before you continue with any activities

[Brandye]

There is a sticky titled Caution:Take Only as Directed. Read it and it will explain how the bcp works. The first question is how regularly were you taking the pill or were you a bit careless? Taking the pill off and on places you at greater risk of pregnancy.

Birth control pills are exactly that whether you were taking them for headaches (?), dysmennorhea or protection. Yes, they are all now "low dose" but it is what is needed to prevent pregnancy.

The rest will require a pregnancy test and/or a trip to the doctor. If you arbitrarily stopped on your own, the doctor should know that. How did you determine, definitively, that the pill was causing depression? A guess? A friend? Your doctor?

These pills are not candy; they are medication for the body. You should change patterns with the advice of the prescriber. It could simply be going off the pill that is creating symptoms. Get some medical help in sorting this out.