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Help me, Could I be pregnant?

Hi all,

I have 2 kids already so I'm pretty sure I would know if I was pregnant or not! However because I am on Birth control I'm very confused.  I usually have a pretty regular period and fairly heavy.  I only had my period for 3 days last week, very light, in fact probably only 2 days of it was bleeding.  I've been having some white discharge as well, starting yesterday.  I doubt I could be pregnant.  But should I go get a test anyways?  Also I've been really craving nuts lately, but I'm not sure if that could just be because I'm missing something in my diet.  Thanks for all your help.

If you're spotting, and on BC, I highly doubt it. If you are worried regardless you can take the test as a buffer but I really doubt you're pregnant.

Do you eat enough healthy fats? If not it may explain the nut craving. You do often crave that that you lack.

highly highly doubt it.  I'm in nursing school- even thought im only 20 and have years and years left, i plan on going for NP in womens health. and i've taken many courses already towards this.

When you areon birth contorl, you are getting hormones that trick your body into thinking your pregnant when your not. Your body thinks your pregnant so it does not ovulate. If you were to ovulate while you were pregnant and had sex, you could get "double pregnant"- which we know cant happen. Also, the pill acts to thicken your mucous in the uterus making it very hard for sperm to "swim" in. So even if you did ovulate for some reason, sperm would have a very difficult time getting to the egg. it is very common to have that discharge as the pill acts to thicken the mucous. Its also very common to have some spotting fromt he hormonal levels. Its also common to actually miss a period. The week you stop taking the pill and you have a "period"-its technically a withdrawl bleeding rather than a normal period. It is a withdrawl bleeding of the hormones your body is being deprived of. if you were to get pregnant on the pill you shouldnt bleed during this time because your body is producing natural hormones from the pregnancy so their is no withdrawl bleeding. However it is common to actually not bleed at all and still not be pregnant. That is why you can miss your period purposly by skipping the placebo week and heading right away into the next pack because again, you arent withdrawing the hormones from your body.

I highly doubt you are, if you have taken them AS DIRECTED! same time everyday. being off by like an hour or two shouldnt make a differece, if it does hardly at all. it is possible to get pregnant while on the pill...but very very unlikely. its bout 97%-99.9% effective....97% being if you missed a pill or were really late. If it makes you feel better you can take a test- just know that sometimes those home test can show you a positive when its a negative due to the pill, not pregnancy. If your comfortable enough taking the pills for another month wait till next month to see if you get it. however, this your choice.

FYI- im on birth control, i am sexually active with my fiance and i have had "scares" as well, despite me knowing the fact that is common to miss a period and despite me knowing that its about 99.9% effective. If i became pregnant for everytime i spotted or missed a period, i would be poppin out kids like popcorn!

Did you miss a dose of BC? Did you take a pill even a little late? I did and wound up pregnant with my first child.

The spotting could be implantation bleeding but there would be several explainations for a lighter period, as well. Have you changed birth control pill brands?

As you probably know, pregnancy symptoms are very similar to menstrual symptoms so it's hard to say one way or the other.

Take the test just to be sure.

Edited to add: Even though it happened to me, becoming pregnant while taking birth control pills is very unlikely. Only 5 out of 100 women will become pregnant while taking the pill less-than-perfectly.

I found out that I was pregnant with my second while I was on BC, and had only had 1 normal period.  I had one very light period, and the next month I was pregnant!  I was on the breast-feeding pill, which if I understand right, requires total vigilance, because it is not as strong as the other kinds.  I was still sure that I could not be prego, because I didn't think I had missed or been that late with any of my pills.  So, take a test if you are really questioning it, you do not want to keep taking the pill if you are pregnant.  Good luck!!

1 out of every 100 women who use the pill as directed will get pregnant. the typical woman does not use it the SAME time everyday (sometimes  2 hours late, sometimes 5 hours late etc.) assuming they take it everyday, but not at the same time (like the average woman) the failure rate is 5 out of 100.

So its best to take it same time everyday yes, but it is still effective if you dont take it the same time everyday.

What type of bc are you on? If it is the patch it can take up 48 hours to become fully effective after the "off" week. That's how I figure I got preggers with my second child.

Why don't you just take a test? They're cheap. You can buy a pack of 3 for $10.

Of course, why test when you can ask one of our resident reproductive psychics?