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could I be pregnant?
My boyfriend and I just started having unprotected sex the 19th of November trying to conceive which at the time I stopped taking my birth control. Usually when I miss a pill I spot and if I don't take another right away I will get my period. I had spotting for a couple of hours but nothing since. Yesterday I was at the doctors office getting treated for a UTI at which point they gave me a pregnancy test that came back negative. My boyfriend and I haven't had sex since about 24 hours before the test was taken. The Doctor said normally the hormones show quickly. What chances do I have that I still could be pregnant? I was heart broken when they told me it was negative.
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If the doctor did a blood test, it might have been accurate. If they did a urine test then it's much less reliable. Urine tests generally aren't reliable until at least several days after conception. Three days is about the fastest that a urine test can be even somewhat reliable.
Seriously though, you need to calm down. You've been trying for less than 10 days! You haven't even had an entire cycle yet! It's even possible you haven't ovulated yet. It's not terribly likely that you are pregnant already. This anxiety and heart-break isn't going to help you conceive. Chill out and enjoy the process a bit.
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Just as it took time for the medication to build up in your system to protect you. It will take time to work its way out of your system, anywhere from 30 to 60 days. Generally speaking your first period after you stop taking the medication is when your chances of conceiving are possible.
Getting pregnant is not as easy as just having sex. In fact it is far more complicated than that. For most of us we enjoy our normal sex lives with unprotected sex and within a month or two the women becomes pregnant. For some couples it is a bit more complicated.
The average woman, about 85%, ovulate and are fertile between the 7th and 21st day of their menstrual cycle. This is when the Ovary ejects an egg to be fertilized. If you know just when you ovulate then having sex 3 days before and 3 days after should result in a pregnancy.
For th3 other 15% the can ovulate any time during their cycle including while having their period. Therefore it is important when trying to conceive to know when you are most fertile which is when you ovulate. Talk to your pharmacists to see if they have a kit you can purchase to help you find out just when you ovulate. Then plan to have intercourse during that time frame.
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It is going to take more time after getting off birth control for you to start ovulating (releasing a fertile egg) When coming off birth control, your entire monthly cycle can't be expected to be normal within a couple days or weeks. An odd woman might get lucky but thats not what the general populace has had happen. A cycle is 30 days and includes the time approaching the release of a ready egg, the time that egg is present waiting for a sperm to join it and the time when if the egg isn't met by a sperm, it becomes too old and is released with the monthly lining of the uterus that was waiting for a viable egg to attach. When the lining isn't needed due to no egg, it is released as a period. The period ends and the cycle begins again. That said, I understand you are dissapointed but this was too soon to expect to be pregnant. You might try checking on line on learning about when you ovulate to make sure to have sex at those times for sure. Anything you can find about ovulating and how to get pregnant will be helpful for the months ahead.
Even a person not coming immediately off hormone birth control, like myself, still had to wait a few months once i started trying. It's not always an instant (the next month) deal. Good luck.
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