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vaginapaginaHey, everyone!
So, I usually have a 28 day cycle (I've been tracking my cycles for several years and that is the average, though it is usually between 26-29 days). My period was due around last Monday. As of right now (8 days late according to the app I have on my phone), I've had nothing. I took a HPT yesterday morning first thing and it came out negative. I've been cramping on and off for a couple of days, but obviously nothing has happened. I felt like I was PMSing about a week ago (cravings, mood swings, sore nipples, spotty acne), but most of that has subsided. I'm still cramping, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that AF is just very late (my fiance keeps telling me she's just stuck in traffic!).
I'm getting married in 18 days (yay!), and I've been stressed to the max, so I'm guessing that would be the cause for the late period. However, last month was also late, though only 4 days. Should I continue to chalk it up to stress or could something be wrong with my cycles that I should get checked out? What is the likelihood of getting a false negative a week out? I shouldn't Google search these things as all of the stories I've read have been about women who didn't test positive their whole pregnancy or until they were three months along, so I'm freaked out even more as we DON'T want to be pregnant yet.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? Advice to calm me down? Thanks in advance!
So, I usually have a 28 day cycle (I've been tracking my cycles for several years and that is the average, though it is usually between 26-29 days). My period was due around last Monday. As of right now (8 days late according to the app I have on my phone), I've had nothing. I took a HPT yesterday morning first thing and it came out negative. I've been cramping on and off for a couple of days, but obviously nothing has happened. I felt like I was PMSing about a week ago (cravings, mood swings, sore nipples, spotty acne), but most of that has subsided. I'm still cramping, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that AF is just very late (my fiance keeps telling me she's just stuck in traffic!).
I'm getting married in 18 days (yay!), and I've been stressed to the max, so I'm guessing that would be the cause for the late period. However, last month was also late, though only 4 days. Should I continue to chalk it up to stress or could something be wrong with my cycles that I should get checked out? What is the likelihood of getting a false negative a week out? I shouldn't Google search these things as all of the stories I've read have been about women who didn't test positive their whole pregnancy or until they were three months along, so I'm freaked out even more as we DON'T want to be pregnant yet.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? Advice to calm me down? Thanks in advance!
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Date: 2012-02-14 05:10 am (UTC)Stress can totally delay your period, but if you were late last month too, you could just be going through a shift in what's normal for you. It happens, sometimes. If last cycle was 32 days and this one is on day 36 so far, maybe you're going to have a slightly longer cycle...
You don't say when you had sex and what (if any) form of birth control you were using. That definitely matters. :) The negative pregnancy test can be trusted 19 days after the sex in question, although most companies just say how long after your missed period. 8 days would be enough - unless you just ovulated late due to stress and have not actually missed a period yet. So if there was questionable sex in the last 18 days you're going to want to test again just in case. Use first morning urine, too.
Many early symptoms of pregnancy match PMS symptoms, which is frustrating, but if you're pregnant enough to have symptoms you'd normally test positive. False negatives happen but they're rare. Now and then, yeah, someone doesn't excrete hCG in their urine, but again, rare.
Assuming you're not pregnant: I wouldn't worry about the shifts in your cycle - pre-wedding stress might be the culprit right now, and most people miss a cycle or have an irregular one once in a while. It's normal. If it stays irregular - and especially if you're going to start trying to conceive - it wouldn't hurt to get it checked out, but you can wait a few months if the only thing happening is that your cycle is less regular than it used to be.
Hope this helps!
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Date: 2012-02-14 05:35 am (UTC)I do natural family planning, so I know there is always room for an oops, but we also use the pull out method and have not had any accidents. We used to also use condoms, as well, but I developed some pretty rotten allergies to different condoms and lubes which made sex unbearable.
I don't want to be pregnant and right now would be the worst time. However, the reason I'm so diligent about tracking my cycles is because both my grandmother and mother had severe cycles, many miscarriages and finally went into menopause very early. Granted, I'm only 25, but it is still something I keep in the back of my head. So I keep hoping it is only stress for multiple reasons which, of course, makes me more stressed. I have GAD, so that doesn't make things much better in your average high stress situation.
I don't feel like I'm having any pregnancy or PMS symptoms now other than the cramping which I usually get for several days prior to my period. I just keep hoping for the cramps to turn into the real thing!
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Date: 2012-02-14 05:48 am (UTC)Well, if your ovulation was delayed... you're just inside the 19-day window for the 28th. So wait a few more days and test again just in case. The 3rd would be pretty darn late for you to ovulate, but we're already 10 days after that, so that could be a possibility - and you can't trust a negative test result until the 22nd at that point.
Withdrawal's pretty effective, used properly, as I'm sure you know. :) And if there were no oopses, I'd still tend toward a late period due to stress delaying ovulation rather than pregnancy at this point. But it's not impossible. Without knowing when you ovulated, it's actually hard to say what the chances are.
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Date: 2012-02-14 05:59 am (UTC)Ugh, I so don't want to wait that long. I mean, if I have to, I have to, but that is the last thing I want on my mind the week before the wedding, y'know?
I feel like I ovulated around two-and-a-half to three weeks ago as I do remember having what I believed to be discharge due to ovulation and it being that time in my cycle, but I could be off a bit. I should start tracking that, as well, to give me a better idea. I used to be able to feel myself ovulate because I'd have sharp pain, but the past few months I either haven't noticed, or it happened while I was asleep.
I guess I have a bit of a waiting game, then. Not too thrilled about it, but what can I do?
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Date: 2012-02-14 06:17 am (UTC)At least you'll know before the wedding, right? Yeah, not much of a silver lining, but I'm trying. Best of luck. **hugs if you want 'em**
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