Your story is exaclty my story. All the way down to the end of the exact month; August. This is the worse medication to prevent conception. All the irregular menses had me so crazy. I must have taken a gazillion pregnancy tests and I even suspected the irregularity was a sign of an STI. Thank God they were all negative. All of September my hormones were wacky and now in the begining of October my cycle showed up in the morning and no more througout the day or the next day afterwards. I even think it has long term affects now. Im glad Im not pregnant but all these irregularities can't be good. Had anyone heard of Plan B having long term affects?
Hi. I wanted to follow up with you on your post. I got the insomnia from the plan b pill too. It's been months and still no resolution. Please tell me you found the cause and or a solution.
Hi, my only means of birth control is avoiding sex for a week or so around my calculated ovulation time and my hubby is very careful not to even chance it but if we have an accident, even if I'm sure I'm ovulating, I take the plan b. I have the usual early bleeding the next day and some cramps but after the last time I used this 4 months ago my periods have been crazy. They last a whole month sometimes and the bleeding is so heavy that I had to double pad my underwear to avoid bleeding out at work. I even have had some days so heavy, I was done w a pad each hour. And they were super maxi pads. Is this a long term side effects of using plan b too many times (2-3 x a yr)?
Hi! I have a question so one day me and this guy were fooling around and he used a condom and there was no penetration in my vagina but he checked and the condom broke. He came on his stomach but being who I am I freaked out and told him to get a plan b and about a week and a half later I got my expected period. I'm now waiting on my next period to come in about a week and a half but I'm so nervous what do I do?
Did u end up pregnant???
Hi, can u tell me if ur symptoms ever improved I have been very sick since plan b took 3 months ago?
Did your period come on time?
Me and my girlfriend had unprotected sex last july 16 2017 at around 1am. We bought morning after pills and she took it 2 hours after having sex. She got her period a week after taking the pills, which is exactly her expected day of period. (But im not sure if that was washing out of the blood due to the pills). After 6 weeks yesterday august 25 2017, she had brown spotting and today august 26 2017 she woke up at 5am with a really bad cramp but no period. Is she pregnant? Or what? What is the meaning of that? Thanks so much answer asap pls :(
It's really hard to tell the difference with those symptoms if she is pregnant or just having the painful side effects from plan b. It's unusual tho for the symptoms to happen 6 weeks later rather than much sooner. But it's been that long since having unprotected sex so she should be able to tell w a preg test by now. And I don't wanna lecture, but keep in mind the plan b can reek havoc on her cycle and fertility in the future if she does it too often. Even twice a year could be too much.
I took plan B for the first time 4 weeks ago. I have being extremely irritable and overreacting. I’ve been sad and just not feeling like myself.
Over 6 months ago I lost my dog who I love very much, I lost my job but I found a new one with same pay and It’s been a lot but I’ve been handling... I’ve been okay and making sure I’m paying attention to how I feel.
Now that I’ve took this pill I feel like a nutcase! This month I’ve been going off or getting hurt or anxious over small things and noticing it’s small afterwards. I know this has to be the plan b pill.. I’ve been reading and seeing there are other women who have been affected emotionally for days, weeks and months.
So I’m not sure if plan B is affecting some of us worse than others because we are going through something or have went through something recently.. but I know something is off.
My period came early. It was heavy & I had some bad cramping (cramps isn’t too unusual for me). S/O could feel my cramps in my lower abdomen.
My girlfriend missed two periods after taking Plan B, initially freaking me out. It finally came the 3rd month. This irregularly was likely due to Plan B.
She had her period in late April. Couple of days before ending that period we had sex, condom broke, so she immediately took Plan B that day. Unfortunately she reacted very strongly to Plan B. Was very nauseous all day for 6 weeks straight, dizzy for several of the first few days, very fatigued, had some lower back pain and lower abdomen pain.
We weren’t initially worried based on the fact that we had sex during the end of her period, she has a regular cycle and she took Plan B immediately. However, then she missed her first period, then missed her second. Also during these roughly 3 months without a period she was constantly nauseated daily, very fatigued, had a large increase in appetite, had pain in her lower back, mild cramps in her lower abdomen and more substantial cravings for certain foods. Also, 36 days after her last period (40 days after taking Plan B) she had a few hours of light spotting, but that’s it, no real period. However, the light spotting that day was accompanied by intense sharp pain all that day.
So most of these are signs (except the sharp pain) were freaking me out and pointing to unplanned pregnancy. She was scared to take the test, so initially wouldn’t. But after the second missed period she finally took it two different days, both times negative.
She finally got her period 11 weeks after (mid July) her last real period (late April). This period was heavier than normal. All those other pregnancy-like symptoms finally subsided with this period. Still can’t explain it other than I think that Plan B understates its side effects and duration. Posting this for awareness and hopefully to put some people online at ease.
She had her period in late April. Couple of days before ending that period we had sex, condom broke, so she immediately took Plan B that day. Unfortunately she reacted very strongly to Plan B. Was very nauseous all day for 6 weeks straight, dizzy for several of the first few days, very fatigued, had some lower back pain and lower abdomen pain.
We weren’t initially worried based on the fact that we had sex during the end of her period, she has a regular cycle and she took Plan B immediately. However, then she missed her first period, then missed her second. Also during these roughly 3 months without a period she was constantly nauseated daily, very fatigued, had a large increase in appetite, had pain in her lower back, mild cramps in her lower abdomen and more substantial cravings for certain foods. Also, 36 days after her last period (40 days after taking Plan B) she had a few hours of light spotting, but that’s it, no real period. However, the light spotting that day was accompanied by intense sharp pain all that day.
So most of these are signs (except the sharp pain) were freaking me out and pointing to unplanned pregnancy. She was scared to take the test, so initially wouldn’t. But after the second missed period she finally took it two different days, both times negative.
She finally got her period 11 weeks after (mid July) her last real period (late April). This period was heavier than normal. All those other pregnancy-like symptoms finally subsided with this period. Still can’t explain it other than I think that Plan B understates its side effects and duration. Posting this for awareness and hopefully to put some people online at ease.
If you actually read up on any emergency contraception it will tell you under the side effects that those symptoms can be possible on rare occasions, the most common being delayed or missed period, the fact she missed two could also be put down to stress of missing the first.