Me and my boyfriend have just started having sex recently, and my period was due a week ago but never came so I thought that to be safe I should ask you guys what you think of this.
I'm not on the pill so we just used regular condoms as contraception, and as far as I know there haven't been any mishaps with it, no breakage or anything. Also my periods are usually pretty irregular: they'll sometimes come a full two weeks late, sometimes start up for two days, stop for another two, and then continue for the remaining three days, they'll sometimes last four days, sometimes over a week, sometimes I'll get excruciatingly painful cramps, sometimes nothing... So the fact that I'm a week late doesn't worry me that much, but since I've started having sex again I'm being cautious.
Also, last week I did notice some signs which to me would usually indicate my period coming: I felt very PMS-y (easily irritated, hyper-emotional), I felt some cramps here and there (like I do before getting my period), and I noticed my discharge getting slightly darker (which for me usually happens like 1 or 2 days before my period starts). As well as this I noticed something unusual which I've never had before but I just assumed it was part of the pre-period shebang; after peeing I noticed that I had a tiny trace of blood on the toilet-paper, from extremely light bleeding. It hadn't spotten my underwear at all and wasn't dripping or anything, I had to literally wipe it to get a trace of it. I assumed that that was the start of my period, but it stopped after a day, along with all of the other symptoms. Just totally gone.
Normally I wouldn't worry at all if these symptoms dragged out over 2 weeks, because they sometimes do come 2 weeks before my period; however they never just randomly stop; they only end when my period starts, and it didn't. (and that blood was nowhere near enough to be period blood.)
I've also noticed myself peeing quite a lot (and me and my boyfriend sometimes joke about it bc it's so frequent), but I'm not sure if that's just something that's always been there and I've just noticed it now because of my boyfriend pointing it out, or if it really has just appeared over the past month. I mean, I drink quite a lot of tea and tea makes you pee a lot, or so I've heard.
I've done a tiny bit of research and found that common early signs of pregnancy (as well as the universally-known "missing a period") include cramping (which feel just the same as period cramps), spotting, feeling over-emotional, and needing to pee a lot...
I'm thinking I'll wait another 1-2 weeks to see if my period comes, and if it doesn't I'll get a pregnancy test. (never gotten one before. dunno how to proceed... but anyways. I can figure it out.) It would still help me to hear what you all think of this.
Cheers!
