could i be pregnant? help?

Question

I have been regular like clock work on my periods for 12years, in the summer last year i started taking my pills back to back (two packs at a time) i was due on approx 2-3weeks ago and it didn't show!! i have been feeling ill, sick although not actually been sick, extremely emotional, i am usually emotional when due on but not this much and possibly using the toilet more although i do that more than average anyway.i took amoxilicin antibiotics due toa wisdom tooth growing through around the time i was due on. my mum says sometimes this can make your pill non effective. I took a test today but it was negative, just wandered if i took it too early. It was a boots own brand test are they less effective?? pls help.

Answer 1

Antibiotics does effect the effectiveness of the pill, so if you have sex while taking the medication you can get pregnant. First thing I would do is to take a test or go do a test at a doctor to be 100% sure. Here are some pregnancy symptoms too look out for....

10. Tender, swollen breasts
One of the early signs of pregnancy is sensitive, sore breasts caused by increasing levels of hormones. The soreness may feel like an exaggerated version of how your breasts feel before your period. Your discomfort should diminish significantly after the first trimester, as your body adjusts to the hormonal changes.

9. Fatigue
Feeling tired all of a sudden? No, make that exhausted. No one knows for sure what causes early pregnancy fatigue, but it's possible that rapidly increasing levels of the hormone progesterone are contributing to your sleepiness.

You should start to feel more energetic once you hit your second trimester, although fatigue usually returns late in pregnancy when you're carrying around a lot more weight and some of the common discomforts of pregnancy make it more difficult to get a good night's sleep.

8. Implantation bleeding
Some women have a small amount of vaginal bleeding around 11 or 12 days after conception (close to the time you might notice a missed period). The bleeding may be caused by the fertilized egg burrowing into the blood-rich lining of your uterus — a process that starts just six days after fertilization — but no one knows for sure.

The bleeding is very light (appearing as red spotting or pink or reddish-brown staining) and lasts only a day or two. (Let your practitioner know if you notice any bleeding or spotting, particularly if it's accompanied by pain, since this can be a sign of an ectopic pregnancy.)

7. Nausea or vomiting
If you're like most women, morning sickness won't hit until about a month after conception. (A lucky few escape it altogether.) But some women do start to feel queasy a bit earlier. And not just in the morning, either — pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting can be a problem morning, noon, or night.

About half of women with nausea feel complete relief by the beginning of the second trimester. For most others it takes another month or so for the queasiness to ease up.

6. Increased sensitivity to odors
If you're newly pregnant, it's not uncommon to feel repelled by the smell of a bologna sandwich or cup of coffee and for certain aromas to trigger your gag reflex. Though no one knows for sure, this may be a side effect of rapidly increasing amounts of estrogen in your system. You may also find that certain foods you used to enjoy are suddenly completely repulsive to you.

5. Abdominal bloating
Hormonal changes in early pregnancy may leave you feeling bloated, similar to the feeling some women have just before their period arrives. That's why your clothes may feel snugger than usual at the waistline, even early on when your uterus is still quite small.

4. Frequent urination
Shortly after you become pregnant, you may find yourself hurrying to the bathroom all the time. Why? Mostly because during pregnancy the amount of blood and other fluids in your body increases, which leads to extra fluid being processed by your kidneys and ending up in your bladder.

This symptom may start as early as six weeks into your first trimester and continue or worsen as your pregnancy progresses and your growing baby exerts more pressure on your bladder.

3. A missed period
If you're usually pretty regular and your period doesn't arrive on time, you'll probably take a pregnancy test long before you notice any of the above symptoms. But if you're not regular or you're not keeping track of your cycle, nausea and breast tenderness and extra trips to the bathroom may signal pregnancy before you realize you didn't get your period.

2. Your basal body temperature stays high
If you've been charting your basal body temperature and you see that your temperature has stayed elevated for 18 days in a row, you're probably pregnant.

And finally...

1. The proof: A positive home pregnancy test
In spite of what you might read on the box, many home pregnancy tests are not sensitive enough to detect most pregnancies until about a week after a missed period. So if you decide to take one earlier than that and get a negative result, try again in a few days.

Once you've gotten a positive result, make an appointment with your practitioner. Now head over to our pregnancy area. Also, don't forget to update your profile and sign up for our "My Baby This Week" newsletter. Congratulations!

Answer 2

back to back pills cause a bit of a build up sometimes. I know when I used to do it cause I didn't want my period on holidays etc. the next time my period was due I would feel really heavy tired and emotional.
antibiotics do cause your pill to be ineffective and you need to either steer clear of sex for 7 days after your last antibiotic or have protect sex.
boots brand pick up the hormon at around 50 first response picks it up at 25 but some women can be a week or even a month late before they get a positive result.. I even heard of people not finding out until they were 3 months..
if you period is late for another week seek your doctors help maybe a blood test will put your mind at ease.

good luck

Answer 3

Hello My Dear,
First thing I would like to know is that why did you started ur pills back-to-back?Does it had any significance in terms of contraception and for how long you continued it that way?
Second thing is that If you took Amoxil at the end or ur cycle there is no chance that you could be pregnant due to that reason.You see the egg is released in the body between day 11-18 of the cycle.Where day 11 is counted from day 1 of ur last period i.e. If ur last period started on 1st of the month then you may ovulate between 11th to 18th of the month.Egg usually disintegrates by it's self (if not fertilized) within 2-3 days.So if you took amoil arround 25th or something than there is no chance you could be pregnant when you were ovulating ur pills were effetive.
Now as far as you missing ur period is concerned than my dear I think you messed up ur hormones by taking pills back-to-back.Some times periods disappear for no apparent reason as well.You will need a boost of Progesterone than they'll be back to normal.
I hope this info would be sufficient for you to take it easy and see ur MD for a Blood test or may be urine test to determine pregnancy and if negetive than you can ask them for a course of Provera.
Hope to hear from you when you are healthy.
Take Care.
Amber

Answer 4

sounds like it. antibiotics will disrupt your pill's effectiveness. your doctor should know that you were on the pill, and then would have told you. wait a week, then take another test, a good one, in the a.m.
if you didn't want a kid, then a condom plus the pill is the only way to go.

Answer 5

antibiotics can often do this but sometimes makes the pill not work properly i say wait until next week and but another test

Answer 6

antibiotics stop the pill from working properly so you could be pregnant, i would leave it a few more days and then do another test

Answer 7

go c a doctor instead asking