Re: Maybe pregnant?
From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:50:30 -0600 (CST)
If your girlfriend has PCOS, then bleeding mid-cycle and missing a
period are not unusual symptoms at all. Not to mention not ovulating!
I'm glad you'll take a test and find out together, I hope it can be
soon! Best of luck either way.
At Fri, 28 Dec 2001, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>
>Hi all, and happy holidays:
>
>My girlfriend thinks she might be late, in an unplanned type of way. I'm
>20, she's 19 and in colllege.
>
>The reason i put "thinks" in there is because she doesn't know if she
>ovulated last month. We flew out of state for thanksgiving and she bled
>very lightly for 3 days right before our vacation. We were both under a
>lot of stress at the time. That light bleeding was right in the middle
>of her cycle, right at 2 weeks. I thought I read somewhere that under
>high stress, sometimes a woman won't ovulate and the bleeding in the
>middle of the cycle could be an indicator of that.
>
>It's now almost six weeks later and still no period. She's shown no
>signs of early pregnancy, as far as I know. I've looked all over the
>internet for any type of "Early warning" checklist, and she's not
>suffering any unusual symptoms.
>
>I've got a patchwork theory in place that she might not have ovulated
>last month and dropped her uterine lining (i think that's what it's
>called) mid-month. The end of her cycle came and there was nothing left
>that needed to be discarded. So no period there. The new cycle starts
>up normally. She's not due for what would be her next period until a
>week from now I think. Not being qualified at all in anything of this
>nature, I'm not going to get our hopes up too high about it. We're
>going to do a pregnancy test as soon as I can see her again, because I
>don't want her to have to face the results alone.
>
>What do you think. I'm very worried about this, but only because I fear
>her father :). I make enough to support a family and we had already
>planned to marry, only a little further down the road. Thank you all
>for your responses, and sorry about the length.
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Sonnet Fitzgerald, PCOS Association, Online Community Liaison. Email: sonnet@pcosupport.org
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