Soliciting Your Expertise

[alalei.livejournal.com]

I would like some opinions, but since I included as much relevant info as I thought necessary, it's kinda long, hence the cut...


The first day of my last period was January 23rd. That makes today day 47 of my cycle.

I was specifically trying to get pregnant last month. However, I've taken three pregnancy tests (on day 32,37, & 45), all of which have been negative. So on Sunday, day 45, when I got a third negative, I thought I'd try the parsley tea method that's spoken of so frequently in this community. Within a few hours, I had a terrible headache and felt somewhat nauseous. It could very possibly be that the headache was random, and not due to the parsley at all, but being the wimp I am, I didn't want to take any chances, so I didn't drink anymore.

I am getting frustrated. If the tests are right and I'm not pregnant, where the heck is my period? A friend told me that sometimes pregnancy tests are defective, and since they all came from the same box, they are all the same kind, it's not so crazy to think all three tests were defective. But not having much experience with these things, I don't know what to think.

Here are the day lengths of my past fifteen cycles, going backwards from the most recent (28, 33, 43, 28, 31, 37, 28, 26, 28, 27, 26, 39, 38).

I consider the 43-day cycle to be a major outlier that was most likely stress induced from getting married and moving out of state (and a whole lot of crazy things in between) that month. That's why I am looking at Day 47 so suspiciously.

So given the above information, what do you all think?

Comments

[whatevah.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's time to see your doctor or visit planned parenthood and get a more precise test, and if that too turns out to be a negative, perhaps an exam will explain a bit more of what is going on.

stress

[iamtamara.livejournal.com]

Stress wins my vote for why this one is so lenghty. If you missed it entirely add together longest 2 cycle dates from before and you have max tiem until you should bleed again. If you are feeling you are not right something may be off hormonally or otherwise. When you are ttc this makes it even harder. I would definitely not hesitate in making an appt with my gyn to get a medical idea of what was the cause.

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Tamara Nichols
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Mom of 3 wonderful princesses