And once again a pregnacny question ...

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Hello All,

I have a strange question to ask, and yes it’s another pregnancy question.

Can you still get a period and be pregnant?

The reason why I ask this is because I have never been regular, except for this last year and even then it fluctuates.

I would go 6-18-36 months without a period, then I started spirolactone and Metformin and lost 55 lbs. and now I get my period ever 28-32-35 days (never consistent). I usually bleed for 5 days, the first 3 days I will go through a tampon and pad about every hour or two then I go to a normal flow for days 4 & 5. Sometimes for the first two days I am so heavy and cramping that I can’t even use a tampon, just a pad and I bleed through all the time.

This month I got it on day 35 of my cycle and I was able to use a tampon, without a pad and was able to change every 4-6 hours. It was heavy for the first day but nothing super heavy like normal and I had minimal cramping. It stopped completely half way through day three.

I do know a woman’s body can be funky and do its own thing when it wants to … would this be one of those times?

I have been having unusual amounts of sex with no protection, so pregnancy is a possibility … should I go grab a pregnancy test? The only sign I can see as of right now for pregnancy would be that I have sore breasts and I have been unable to sleep well (at least I don’t feel like I have) and so I am super tired.

Thank you in advance for any advice, this community rocks and you are all the best.

Oh, and by the way … if I was pregnant … I will be doing jumping jacks and cartwheels … I would be so ecstatic.

Amethia: Cramping & Heavy Mid-Cycle Bleeding

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I am on the second week of the second month of my first pack of Amethia (generic Seasonique). I am experiencing very painful cramping, back pain, and heavy bleeding. Basically, I seem to have my period\withdrawal bleed almost 2 full months before I'm supposed to.

I have never missed a pill and take it every night at the same time. I have not had any vomiting or anything else that might have caused my body to fail to absorb a pill. I did a Sunday start about a week and a half after my period, which I was told was fine by the nurse at Planned Parenthood.

I know mid-cycle spotting is common on this pill and experienced it when I was on it about 6 years ago. However, back then it was just the occasional spotting, usually brown blood and just enough to be wiped away with toilet paper. I never needed a pad or anything. I certainly never experienced a mid-cycle withdrawal bleed like I seem to be doing now.

This is my first experience with hormonal birth control since I went off it 6 years ago, so perhaps my information is out of date. Is this normal? I am concerned that this means the pills are not working, or that perhaps I was pregnant when I started the pill (PP administered a pregnancy test before prescribing the pill and it was negative, but could have been too early?) and am now miscarrying.

Anyone have any info?

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  Does anyone else out there with vvs/vulvodynia/pelvic floor dysfunction get the feeling that these disorders are like that game Whack-A-Mole? It seems like the minute one symptom is resolved another one rears its ugly head.
  For me, it went from chronic UTIs to cystitis to shortening of the pelvic floor muscles to vulvodynia/vvs in the space of about fifteen years with some breaks in between and very few overlaps. And like clockwork, just as my vvs is beginning to FINALLY die down after visits to the functional medicine doctor and the acupuncturist, a new thing starts rooting itself down in my ladybits, gearing up for a long stay. The symptoms are peculiar, and no one I've seen so far can tell me what they are, which is something I am getting more and more used to regarding the parts down there that make us with the uteri different from those with the testes (but it's still unacceptable! Why don't we know more about this sensitive, complex and "taboo" area?). So I thought I'd present them to you all and see if you have any wisdom to share. Resources are resources.
  So about four months ago I attended a concert (I believe I posted about this particular part), to which I wore non-breathable underwear and pantyhose (seriously stupid, don't do it! Thigh-highs are sexy!). About halfway through, I stood up to go to the bathroom, and pretty instantly started to feel little pinpricks of itching and burning around my pubic bone and labia majora. The skin of those areas then began to sting and burn horribly, and I assumed it was sweat rash and chafing. So I hobbled home, washed the area, applied Vaseline to the outside, and after a few days, the raw, scraped feeling that had developed began to fade. Two weeks later it had all gone away, or so I thought. But over the next couple of months it kept recurring, when I sat down for too long on a less than comfortable chair or wore underwear for too long or when I walked too much (like over half a mile). It was like I kept reopening an old wound, except there was no wound to be seen! That was the part that baffled my doctors: there was no rash, no redness, no irritation. No boils, no dry patches or pustules or warts. So I would avoid sweat-producing activities (that really sucked, especially now that it's summer) and other irritants, but I HAVE to walk occasionally, so after that I rest the area, don't wear underwear, etc. for about three days. The skin feels raw to the touch or just hurt and almost numb in places, and sometimes it seems to burn or feel cold. The most overwhelming sensation, though, is relatively recent and feels like my pubic hairs are being yanked, like all achy and inflamed. Kind of like the skin's been sunburned (it hasn't).
  (A little background: I still so have pelvic floor dysfunction, though it hasn't flared up in a while, and I do have vulvodynia. Recently I was screened for systemic yeast a possible cause of lots of stuff, and it turns out I have it.)
  My current theory includes excessive sweat that encouraged the candida growth on my skin (like jock itch) and some kind of nerve damage that resulted from it (my nerves in that area are already pretty fragile). I have no idea whether any of that makes sense, because, as I keep telling doctors, I am not a doctor!
  Any input would be nice! Has anyone felt this pubic trauma thing before in connection with any of these conditions?
  For me, evidently, lightning strikes the same place many many times in a row. I think, as far as energy medicine is concerned, I have a distinctly blocked root chakra.
  Be well!