super-light period = worry?

[shainamaydel.livejournal.com]

Hey guys. I just had the lightest period in the history of my body, and i'm wondering if i should be worrying that my pill failed and whether i should take a pregnancy test. This period...I probably could have done it without my DivaCup, that's how light it was. the only way i know it was there at all was some blood in the mucus in the cup, but seriously, it could probably be called just spotting.

i take the pill and i'm pretty good about it, and my boyfriend and i almost always use condoms anyways. i did mess up i think twice last month (i took the pill either really late or the next morning when i realized), but then i made SURE we used condoms for the rest of the month.

I know some people get spotty periods while they're pregnant (hello, "I Didn't Know I Was Preganant!") so now I'm a little freaked out that that's what this was. What are the odds?

Comments

[nickelshoe.livejournal.com]

It's possible that you're pregnant, but it's much much more likely that it's a side effect of your pill. The pill can cause you to build up less lining in your uterus so that when you bleed, there isn't much there. (Some people even stop bleeding at all.) Even if you weren't perfect with pill-taking, you were using condoms too. Very low chance of pregnancy.

If you want, you can take a pregnancy test.

[frolicnaked.livejournal.com]

Just seconding this.

OP, light withdrawal bleeds are a reasonably common side effect of HBC.

You were protected by 2 forms of contraception for the month. Even assuming "typical" rather than "perfect" use for both, that's a better than 99% protection rate. (Condom = 0.15 failure rate; HBC = 0.08 failure rate. Multiplied together = 0.012 failure rate.)

Only a pregnancy test can tell for sure, but just on paper, the odds look much more like "random light HBC bleed."

[moronicblooze.livejournal.com]

um, not about your post, but i dig your user image :D