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Am I pregnant or not?
Hello! I'm 19 years old. My boyfriend and I had unprotected sex. We had a pregnancy scare before and the thing said negative.
I started birth control and it skipped my period. But I ran out and got my period for a month.
We had once again and now I haven't got my period.. I checked the date and I haven't had it for one month and one week. But haven't had signs but mood swings. And stomach feeling iffy..
Am I pregnant?
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The most probable cause is the birth control. Because your body needs to adjust to it REGULARLY and you haven't been allowing it to; the pill is causing you to have an irregular period.
If you take it regularly, not just on and off, your period should regulate itself in time (2 or 3 months).
The first month you take it can cause: longer period, no period, spotting, or a "regular" period. Each body reacts differently, and you experienced two different reactions, possibly because you had it for a month and got it in your system (but since it was new, your body didn't know it wasn't supposed to prepare for motherhood and had a LOT of lining in the uterus to shed; giving you an elongated period).
Then, after being off of it for a month before going back on it, your body recognized that the pill is supposed to make you not prepare for a child but had no withdrawal to shed.
When you have your period while on the pill, you're not shedding the lining of your uterus. Instead it's called "withdrawal blood", and if you don't have any "withdrawal" to bleed; you miss a period without it being a "symptom" of anything.
Another thing that causes missed periods is stress and other strong emotions that are similar.
If you're having mood swings during the time you feel you should be menstruating, it's most likely because your hormones are still going as they should but you're uterus doesn't know it's supposed to shed anything because the pill has told it there won't be any babies for it to prepare for.
So I wouldn't worry about it, your body is adjusting to the birth control. Give it time to adjust to the changes you made when you decided to use that contraceptive.
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