I have messed up with my pills and missed my periods. Will I be pregnant?

Question

Hello doctor,

My boyfriend works in navy. We just started dating and have mostly had long distance relationship because of our situation. I have never taken birth control and or ECP. I have always had an average 28-day cycle. However, between last two to three months, I took five emergency contraceptive pills. I know it is too much, and it is wrong to take that many, but due to our uncertain living situation, I had to do so. My cycle reached up to 37 days, and I visited a gynaecologist. She did a pregnancy test which came negative. She also checked to make sure I had no infection. I did have a uterus swelling. She advised me to wait and allow my body to bounce back to its normal cycle naturally. She said it would take anywhere between few days to three months for my periods to get back to normal. She also prescribed daily contraceptive pills. Anyways, I got my period within six days.

Last month as we both had to leave, I did not start the daily contraceptive pill. I took another one ECP and got my periods as normal. As my periods were ending, we had sex, and I took another ECP. My next period was due at the end of the month. However, he made an impromptu flight to see me and happened to come on the day that I was expecting my periods. We had sex on that day. But he did not climax. And since I was due for my periods, I thought I should not take an ECP again because I did not want to mess up my already messed up hormones. However, I did not get my periods. It is 11 days, and I took two pregnancy tests and both tests came negative. Please advise.

Answer 1

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You already messed up your cycle, and you do not have any choice left now. You have to wait for your period. You will also have to do a repeat urine pregnancy test after every four to five days till you get your periods. The other option that you have is to take some birth control pills or progesterone tablets for few days and wait for the period after that. And do urine pregnancy test every four to five days till you get your periods. As you already messed up your cycle. It is tough to predict your ovulation time.

If you do not get your period now, it may be that you are pregnant also. It is just early non-detectable level of hormones in urine. This is one possibility. The other is you just did not ovulate this time and because of that, your periods may get delayed this time. In that case, there will be no pregnancy. So I am asking for repeat test every four to five days. If you take tablets, then your period should come within 10 days after the last tablet. Consult a specialist doctor for the tablets as they are prescription medicines. You can take birth control pills, and there is no relation between casual sex and birth control pills. In one cycle if you do not have sex and you have taken pills, then also no problem. You can ask your partner to use a condom.

There are other options for contraception. So do not search for excuses and understand the situation and react. Sometimes irregular cycle will not become regular and ultimately with irregular cycle and irregular ovulation you will end up in infertility and may require treatment for pregnancy. So be serious about it, and it is not very hard also. Do consult a nearby specialist doctor, talk about available options, understand the merits and demerits of every method and do choose best according to your lifestyle and convenience.

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