WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for March, 2003: Re: I need help!

Re: I need help!

From: Anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:23:02 -0600 (CST)

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At Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Scared wrote: >

Not a doc but....You don't mention if you have been using any form of contraception such as a condom while you are waiting for your surgery. If you have been having sex it is possible that your are pregnant. The best thing to do is to get a home pregnancy test and find out. Stress (and you are stressed over this) can do all sorts of funky things to your menstrual cycle. They will most likely give you a pregnancy test before they do the tubal and will not do the tubal if you are pregnant. You will feel much better if you find out now. Good Luck!

>Hi. This is my first time here, and I hope someone can make me feel a
>little better. I am 23 years old and have 2 children--ages 4 yrs and 10
>months. I do not want anymore children, and have an appointment to have
>my tubes tied on March 22. My problem is that I believe my period is
>about 3 or 4 days late. I have been cramping for the past 3 days like
>it is about to start, but so far nothing has happened. I am seriously
>freaking out. I can't have any more children--for one we can't afford
>it, and 2 we just don't want anymore. I can't take BC pills--I've been
>on every single brand there is and the hormones are all too strong for
>me and make me so sick I can't get out of bed, so we've always been very
>careful and our 2 children were both planned pregnancies. I am scared
>to death to buy a pregnancy test because I'm scared it will be positive.
>If anyone can help me...my question is can I be pregnant? I know that
>Feb. was a short month anyway, but if I were pregnant would I be
>cramping like this? I am very very stressed about this. Just my luck I
>would come up pregnant right before I am scheduled to have my tubes
>tied.

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