Welcome to EmpowHER, and thanks so much for your post. Let's see if we can help a little.
First, the minipill is 96-99.5 percent effective when used as instructed. From what you write, my first instinct is that you were protected all four times you had sex. As long as you didn't miss your pills, and it doesn't seem like you did, there shouldn't have been a problem.
Antibiotics CAN weaken the effectiveness of the pill, and so it's often recommended that people use a backup method of birth control (a condom, for instance) to be absolutely sure. However, your antibiotics began three days AFTER your last sexual intercourse, and so that wouldn't have had any effect on your protection.
The mid-cycle bleeding: Is this a rarity, or does it come and go with you? Some women do have breakthrough bleeding on the pill. That in itself also isn't something that would worry me too much. It is possible that you ovulated then (though the pill should prevent that) and that this was about when it happened.
And yeah, that home pregnancy test that got dropped in the toilet? Let's ignore that.
My gut instinct is that you are just late, mostly likely due to a combination of stress from the month of December and by whatever condition caused you to need antibiotics. Six days late is not that huge, even in women who are regular. Stress can mess with all our hormones. If you are very nervous about it, do another HPT -- carefully this time, LOL -- and see if the results are still negative.
If you want to check the consumer info for Microlut, here's a link:
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Hi, ConcernedAU,
Welcome to EmpowHER, and thanks so much for your post. Let's see if we can help a little.
First, the minipill is 96-99.5 percent effective when used as instructed. From what you write, my first instinct is that you were protected all four times you had sex. As long as you didn't miss your pills, and it doesn't seem like you did, there shouldn't have been a problem.
Antibiotics CAN weaken the effectiveness of the pill, and so it's often recommended that people use a backup method of birth control (a condom, for instance) to be absolutely sure. However, your antibiotics began three days AFTER your last sexual intercourse, and so that wouldn't have had any effect on your protection.
The mid-cycle bleeding: Is this a rarity, or does it come and go with you? Some women do have breakthrough bleeding on the pill. That in itself also isn't something that would worry me too much. It is possible that you ovulated then (though the pill should prevent that) and that this was about when it happened.
And yeah, that home pregnancy test that got dropped in the toilet? Let's ignore that.
My gut instinct is that you are just late, mostly likely due to a combination of stress from the month of December and by whatever condition caused you to need antibiotics. Six days late is not that huge, even in women who are regular. Stress can mess with all our hormones. If you are very nervous about it, do another HPT -- carefully this time, LOL -- and see if the results are still negative.
If you want to check the consumer info for Microlut, here's a link:
http://www.femalelife.co.nz/scripts/products/microlut/index.php
Will you come back and update us? I'm betting you get your period in the next few days.
January 11, 2010 - 10:27amThis Comment
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