Welcome to EmpowHer! Thank you so much for your question.
It sounds like one of two things might be possible.
One of them is, of course, that you could be pregnant. If you are 21 days late, that means that your most fertile time period would have been about January 8-9 or thereabouts. Do you remember if you had unprotected sex around those dates?
HPTs are set up to detect HCG in your urine, a hormone that is present only when you are pregnant. The fact that your pregnancy tests have been negative so far could mean either that there is not enough HCG in your system to detect (which seems difficult to believe at 21 days late) or that you aren't pregnant after all.
And if you're not pregnant, my best guess would be that something has your hormones a little out of balance. The fact that you got two periods in December and then skipped one is a good hint. It's incredibly frustrating when you're trying to get pregnant, I know. But the dance of estrogen, progesterone and testosterone in our bodies is a delicate thing and it can be thrown off by a lot of factors, like medicines (antibiotics especially), diet, exercise and stress (December is a prime month for this).
I'm glad you have a doctor's appointment to get this checked out. There's nothing harder than waiting and hoping, is there?
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Hi, Steach,
Welcome to EmpowHer! Thank you so much for your question.
It sounds like one of two things might be possible.
One of them is, of course, that you could be pregnant. If you are 21 days late, that means that your most fertile time period would have been about January 8-9 or thereabouts. Do you remember if you had unprotected sex around those dates?
HPTs are set up to detect HCG in your urine, a hormone that is present only when you are pregnant. The fact that your pregnancy tests have been negative so far could mean either that there is not enough HCG in your system to detect (which seems difficult to believe at 21 days late) or that you aren't pregnant after all.
And if you're not pregnant, my best guess would be that something has your hormones a little out of balance. The fact that you got two periods in December and then skipped one is a good hint. It's incredibly frustrating when you're trying to get pregnant, I know. But the dance of estrogen, progesterone and testosterone in our bodies is a delicate thing and it can be thrown off by a lot of factors, like medicines (antibiotics especially), diet, exercise and stress (December is a prime month for this).
I'm glad you have a doctor's appointment to get this checked out. There's nothing harder than waiting and hoping, is there?
February 12, 2010 - 9:08amThis Comment
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