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For starters, count to 28 days from the first day of your last period. This won't be exact, since every woman is different, but it will give you a ballpark number for how late you are, and then you can follow the directions of the pregnancy test for when it is effective (how many days after the period is missed, or after conception). If it comes back negative, take another test a few days later.
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Thanks, sunrise. If I do it that way, then it's definitely been missed by now - last month it was on the 1st. (But I have missed three in a row before for no apparent reason.) The situation from my first post happened very close to when it was due (on December 29th)...I don't know how long these hormones take to build up, I'm worried that I wouldn't trust a negative result even following the instructions.
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I do believe I got pregnant my first time with no penetration. I am very fertile (pregnant at the drop of a hat), as was my mom and my sisters.
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My mum's side of the family is the same, but my dad's side find it more difficult. I'm probably more likely to take after mum on this, though.
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I couldn't take birth control pills when I was in my twenties, as I was too sensitive to the hormones, but today's pills are much less strong, and I can tolerate them fine. So maybe you can find pills that don't affect your migraines. My daughter has taken birth control pills for over a year and is not yet sexually active. (Probably everyone will laugh and think I am just deluded, but I really do believe her. We are very close and talk openly about many topics including sex.) She went to the doctor to get the prescription "just to be ready."
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That's good you're ok with them now. From what I've found online, the combined pill is definitely out - apparently because taking oestrogen if you get, or have ever had, migraines increases your risk of a stroke, and if you get migraines you're already more likely to stroke anyway. (So I couldn't use the contraceptive injection or patch, either.) The progesterone-only pill is ok according to most sites, but I did find one or two that said it wasn't...not sure whether to believe them, though. To be honest, I'd rather take the progesterone-only pill anyway, as it's meant to have fewer side effects.
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(For most of my sexually active life, I have used a diaphragm, so that is an option. Also, IUDs.)
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I don't think it is an option, unfortunately - this is possibly TMI again, but I can't get anything in there myself, and apart from a couple of times it's hurt a lot when my boyfriend has tried as well.
Which is another reason I don't think I'm ready yet...