Ok, I have been on the pill for almost 5 years, and after I forgot to take one last week and doubled-up the next day (doc said its ok), which I have done before, I got some reddish brown discharge for about 2-3 days. I'm kinda freaking out because I have never spotted before in between periods. My next one was due in about 1.5 weeks when it happened, and how it should be showing up in 3-4 days. I am sexually active and we always use a condom, (they never break, but they sometimes slip off and we immediately take them right out... wrong condom size?) but this discharge was worrying me... and I also had menstrual-like cramps and constipation happen 3 times today (which usually happens before my period time, but not THIS soon...), but I don't have any of the other typical early pregnancy symptoms... aaaaand I'm still freaking out.
I've read that if you skip a pill it'll mess up your hormones and cause red-brown spotting, or breakthrough bleeding, but I always seem to feel uneasy whenever I think about it. I wanna wait until my period comes just to see if that was it... I'm 20, so having a baby right now would be a huge setback in my college and carreer goals. The discharge happened about 2 days after I last had sex, and I read that it took 10-12 days for implantation to happen and cause bleeding, so thats a small thing that (temporarily) eased my mind. I've had pregnancy paranoia before, so I might just be over-reacting.... again.
Could it be that I missed a pill and messed up my hormones? (breakthrough bleeding?) Or stress? (I just started school again and have other stuff going on) What are the chances of getting pregnant with a condom and the pill, especially since it's been about 5 years I have been on it? Was my body just trying to jump-start my period or something?
Please let me know if you have information about it... like I said, I want to wait for my period to start before I jump to conclusions. I have no itching, redness, etc so I don't think its an infection, and I just recently had a pelvic exam, and Doc said everything was good. I've tried a bunch of other sites and NO ONE has answered me yet... its really frustrating how paranoid I always am ^-^'
Any info would be great!
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Hi Guest,
It's unlikely, even if you didn't double up, that you'd get pregnant by missing one pill. The level of hormones in your body, from the pill, would be fairly stable. Missing one may cause your spotting - breakthrough bleeding.
You said this happened 1.5 weeks, so about 8 or 9 days, before your period was due? The timing, for getting pregnant, would be bad. Normally you'll ovulate sometime between days 11 and 16 of your cycle. 48 hours after you ovulate the egg is no longer viable. This happened about day 19 or 20 so the egg is likely to have not been viable.
I don't think anyone could say with 100% certainty that it was the missed pill but it would be an unusual coincidence.
Hang in there and let us know what happens.
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