I'd really like some help interpreting my body.?!
Question: I traveled over the Pacific this Christmas and didn't appropriately adjust my BCP (so it was about 6/7 hours off for two weeks). My husband and I made love a whole bunch, and I was scheduled to take the placebo pill the day before flying out (02 JAN) and did so. My period was three days late, and very light (lasted two days). On the plane home (two days after previous nooky; one day into placebo), my stomach felt rotten. I have been easily motion sick since then, emotional, increasingly gassy (don't laugh!), sleepless. I need to know: is it possible to get pregnant a few days before period, then bleed a little (not NEARLY a uterus-worth, haha), and still be pregnant? When would symptoms show up? Took an EPT a few days ago but forgot to check date - it expired (but was neg). I don't want to take another test or worry my husband. Any ideas, ladies?
Answers: I traveled over the Pacific this Christmas and didn't appropriately adjust my BCP (so it was about 6/7 hours off for two weeks). My husband and I made love a whole bunch, and I was scheduled to take the placebo pill the day before flying out (02 JAN) and did so. My period was three days late, and very light (lasted two days). On the plane home (two days after previous nooky; one day into placebo), my stomach felt rotten. I have been easily motion sick since then, emotional, increasingly gassy (don't laugh!), sleepless. I need to know: is it possible to get pregnant a few days before period, then bleed a little (not NEARLY a uterus-worth, haha), and still be pregnant? When would symptoms show up? Took an EPT a few days ago but forgot to check date - it expired (but was neg). I don't want to take another test or worry my husband. Any ideas, ladies?
It's certainly possible. When you are on the pill, you really don't have the same sort of schedule as a non-pill woman, where ~14 days before your period is your fertile time. If the pill fails and you ovulate, it can really be at any time of the month.
That said, it's still quite unlikely. You are still getting a lot of contraceptive effect, even if you were off-schedule on your pills for a while (which, btw., could easily explain your period being light).
Pregnancy symptoms show up as early as 6-7 days after fertilization, although it's more common to not experience them until 3-4 weeks after fertilization. You could be having them, or you could have picked up a bug during your travel or your stay in a foreign country. Unfortunately there's not really a good way to know apart from taking HPTs.
For what it's worth, I suspect you aren't. Even an expired test is usually pretty accurate by this point.