0.0. Oh dear. I really hate it when my period decides to be an inconsiderate asshole and just show up however and whenever it wants. I'm sure you're fine, but maybe take the test so you don't worry about it.
Well, today it turned into the bona fide "time of the month," so I marked it on my calendar this time... as did my mother.
Mom: (on the phone) So it WAS your period? Me: Yeah. Mom: DO YOU WANT ME TO WRITE IT DOWN, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE?
I don't know WHY I am so bad at it. I think it's cause I always get it early in the morning, like as I'm literally running out the door or at work, and by the time I'm back home, I've forgotten that I need to mark it :-/
You get two days periods!? Wow, I'm envious. Mine are always 5 - 8 days. I've learned to track them because I've had way too many instances of not having a pad when away from home and getting a "fun" surprise.
I'm guessing that you don't want to have kids right now/ever? I hope it works out for you.
I occassionally get two day periods. Light spotting lasts another day or so, but like... the flow is really only signifigant for two days? But it's so wonky, because some months I get cramps, others I get super-emotional, sometimes I just get awful stomach issues, and sometimes no symptoms of anything at all, so it kind of sucks, because it's unpredictable.
We'd like to have kids at some point, but we're on a super-tight budget, I'm still technically in school, and we live in an apartment that won't allow young kids (it's not de-leaded), so now is not the right time for us.
Yeah, this is one of the reasons I like the pill. (Although the pill has it's own ways in which to pregnancy scare because all those symptoms you listed are basically things you get the last week of the active pill.) As my therapist said after the bat scare, "well, what is the most likely thing to happen, missy? And not the reality you have created for yourself." I've gotten spotty bleeding when I've been ten hours late taking my bc pill, so yes it can happen at the slightest hormonal hiccup. It could also be an infection -- I've thought I've gotten my period when I really just had a UTI -- or something so you might want to consider seeing your pcp even if the pregnancy test is negative.
It's my period, proper. This is what happens when you don't track.
It's super emotionally confusing, too, because if we were in better financial straights, it wouldn't be an issue at all... there's this huge part of me that goes, "whew, not pregnant!!" and feels super relieved, but there's also a tiny part of me that is consistently disappointed.
I never really tracked because the few times I did it'd always be off just enough to scare the crap out of me. Even when the odds of being pregnant were zero.
I don't particularly want to have children right now, or maybe ever, mostly because after the past four years or so the thought that comes to mind at the thought of needing any medical treatment whatsoever is, "oh, crap, my insurance is going to be ridiculous about this." Also, what I don't need is more responsibility and mood swings and more variables in making decisions about therapy/possible meds. But a little bit of me is just like, "do it while you can because your family isn't going to last forever." It comes with the age, I guess.
We want kids, have talked extensively about having kids, picked out names, etc. This would just be a bad time for us, and we both know that... if it happened, we'd find a way to make it work, but ideally it just won't happen for a while.
I've done the same type of google search and convinced myself I had all the signs & symptoms too, but if it makes you feel any better when I actually did end up being pregnant I had no signs/symptoms other than being late. ;)
Maybe the spotting was from ovulation? I used to get that sometimes and then my period would show up about two weeks later..
I don't know if that makes me feel better or worse, because now I know it can SNEAK UP ON ME (DUN DUN DUN).
No, it was just my period. :-/ fucking body. See above comment, I (and my mother) marked it down this time -_- She had to listen to me last night whining about always having pregnancy freak outs, so whatever.
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Mom: (on the phone) So it WAS your period?
Me: Yeah.
Mom: DO YOU WANT ME TO WRITE IT DOWN, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE?
I don't know WHY I am so bad at it. I think it's cause I always get it early in the morning, like as I'm literally running out the door or at work, and by the time I'm back home, I've forgotten that I need to mark it :-/
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I'm guessing that you don't want to have kids right now/ever? I hope it works out for you.
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We'd like to have kids at some point, but we're on a super-tight budget, I'm still technically in school, and we live in an apartment that won't allow young kids (it's not de-leaded), so now is not the right time for us.
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It's super emotionally confusing, too, because if we were in better financial straights, it wouldn't be an issue at all... there's this huge part of me that goes, "whew, not pregnant!!" and feels super relieved, but there's also a tiny part of me that is consistently disappointed.
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I don't particularly want to have children right now, or maybe ever, mostly because after the past four years or so the thought that comes to mind at the thought of needing any medical treatment whatsoever is, "oh, crap, my insurance is going to be ridiculous about this." Also, what I don't need is more responsibility and mood swings and more variables in making decisions about therapy/possible meds. But a little bit of me is just like, "do it while you can because your family isn't going to last forever." It comes with the age, I guess.
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Maybe the spotting was from ovulation? I used to get that sometimes and then my period would show up about two weeks later..
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No, it was just my period. :-/ fucking body. See above comment, I (and my mother) marked it down this time -_- She had to listen to me last night whining about always having pregnancy freak outs, so whatever.
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