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Hi, I am 26 years old and am irregular with my periods. However I usually get them around the end of the month or beginning of the next. I would say within the first two weeks of the month at the latest.
Anyway, I had my last period 2/9 and ended 2/14. I had sex with my bf several times between the 14th and 20th. After that we still had sex however he would not cum inside me. However once or twice he may have accidently allowed a small amount to get in but I would urinate right after. Is it possible to push all the sperm out by urinating?
It's now 3/18 and no period. My breasts are a little sensitive, however I do not feel fatigue or cramps which I usually get before my period.
I have been stressing and so I took 3 pregnancy tests and they came back positive. Am I definately pregnant? Is it possible that it can show positive bc I am stressing and not really pregnant? How can I tell for sure?
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hi anon,
I am replying to your message on April 16th (I did not see this question, as it was not its own ASK, but was a response to another question).
When you wrote, your period had not started and it was day 31 (assuming your LMP was February 28; remember it was a short month). You did not indicate if your cycle is the "textbook" 28-day cycle, but a period 3 days late is not uncommon.
Has your period started by now? If not, have you taken a pregnancy test or called your doctor?
April 16, 2009 - 1:57pmThis Comment
Hi,
How are you doing? I wanted to follow-up on Susan C's question to see what your thoughts are about being pregnant, and please let us know if there is anything we can do to help you; whether you have an unwanted or surprise pregnancy or not.
take care,
March 19, 2009 - 12:42pmAlison B
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I agree with the other women who commeneted. It seems pretty obvious that you are pregnant. A women can get pregnant if she is not using adequate protection and sperm enters her, even if it isn't all the ejaculate. If you didn't use protection and didn't take the morning after pill and your period doesn't come, then it seems that it all adds up rather easily to pregnancy.
March 19, 2009 - 11:14amThis Comment
Hi, Anon, and welcome to Empowher. So glad you found us, and thank you for your question!
First, let's do a little work with the calendar. If your last period began Feb. 9, I count 37 days since that happened. Even with an irregular cycle, 37 days is a fairly lengthy time between cycles.
In a regular, 28-day cycle, you would have been most fertile from about the 22nd to the 28th, but sperm can live for between 3 to 5 days inside a woman's body. If you had sex on the 19th and/or the 20th, and ovulated around the 22nd, 23rd or 24th, it would have been possible for the sperm to fertilize the egg and for you to be pregnant.
And because you asked, no, urinating can not push sperm out; the openings to the urethra (where you urinate) and your vagina are different. If sperm enters the vagina, urinating will not affect it.
Here's how home pregnancy tests work: They detect the presence in your urine of something called HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin), a hormone produced by the placenta shortly after fertilization of an egg. If the hormone is there, the pregnancy test turns positive. If the hormone is not there, the test is negative. You can't simply produce this hormone with stress.
While it is possible for a pregnancy test to have false results, it would be more common for a negative test to be false by not sensing the HCG hormone yet (when a woman takes the test too early, for example). False-positive tests happen more when a woman is taking fertility medicine, and I am assuming you aren't. Since you have had three tests turn positive, I would say that odds are very good that you are pregnant.
Here are more details about how home pregnancy tests work:
http://health.howstuffworks.com/how-pregnancy-tests-work.htm
The only way to know for sure is to make an appointment with a doctor and have them do a pregnancy test in the office. Can you do this? Do you have a doctor you can visit?
March 18, 2009 - 10:21amThis Comment