I'm 19 years old and not on the pill. I am 22 days late on my period. I had sex February 13th for the first time. He had a vasectomy and we didn't use a condom. He didn't even break me, so to speak, but I know you can still get pregnant. I used to be off and on wabbly with me period, but the last 4 was usually 6 to 9 days late. And 22 is kind of freaking me out. I am getting ready to graduate and begin college. I'm worried about not only college, but my license my can license, getting a job and car and getting volunteer hours in. I've been having issues getting all my answers and I know stress can halt a period, I really have no symptoms for pregnancy like vomiting or tender breasts. Although I have been eating more. I already urinate a lot so its hard to tell if I have been more. I can't help, but worry that I am. I can't really go buy a test because as I said I don't drive just yet. I could ask a friend to get one, but I'd rather not tell many people. Should I get a test or wait until when it should begin this month? How long after you get pregnant do you start to show? Its nearly been a month and the only time this happened was within the first year, but its straightened out since then. Please help. I'm scared.

Same girl here! I also should have started on the date I had sex, and afterward had light spotting for about a week without my period. I know that could mean pregnancy too.


I've even been getting sick. Though a little girl I work with in peer counseling and my father are too. Even a lot of people at school. Its mostly nasal congestion and its going away. That's a symptom too? =o yikes

This thread deals with a concern about pregnancy, so I've asked that it be moved to that forum.

First please read the following links, "stickies" at the top of the pregnancy forum. It lists most of the things you describe as "presumptive" symptoms... which can accompany pregnancy, but are not reliable indicators.

https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/pregnancy-new-motherhood/do-you-wonder-if-you-pregnant-78870.html

https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/pregnancy-new-motherhood/am-pregnant-read-before-asking-26487.html

People post here daily, frustrated that the "signs" are not more definitive. I don't know what to say to that. If they were definitive, we would use them to diagnose. We cannot and will not call anyone pregnant based on missed periods, irregular periods, or other presumptive symptoms.

I'm sorry. If I could accurately read the tea leaves and make the pregnancy tests obsolete, id make a ton of coin.

So... live in reality. That people self diagnose and amplify "symptoms"... you know that illness and stress alone can cause this. No physician will put his practice on the line and call you pregnant or not by described symptoms.

You mentioned that he had a vasectomy. How do you know this? He told you? How old is he?

Your options are to test or to wait. If you cannot drive, how far away is a local grocery store or drugstore? Ride a bike? Take a cab?

Please read the stickies I linked.