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Q: Any Other Cause For Heavy Discharge On Ortho-lo?
asked by: Tylanas on July 24th, 2006
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besides pregnancy? Could it be related to the fact that week two accidentally got skipped last month, and now my body is out of whack? I've had heavy discharge since about a week after my period stopped. It's worse some days, better on others, and it seems to fluctuate throughout the day. It's the normal color, (for me) which is mostly white with a slight yellow tint if it's especially thick.


Doing calculations, the only way I could be pregant is if:

i had already ovulated because of the shortening of the birth control, and because I only took two days of week two and then ended up taking all of week three.

Then, after my boyfriend and I had sex, the sperm managed to make it into my fallopian tube and fertilise the egg.


Next, the egg took long enough to finish coming down the fallopian tube that my period, which came a day after we had sex, was already over.


And somehow, this egg implanted on my totally barren, post-menstrual uterus. I thought eggs could only implant if there was sufficient build-up on the uterus to do so.

Plus, I am on birth control, isn't that supposed to make the uterus hard to implant in? Implantation would have taken place within 7-10 days of fertilisation (if I remember health class right) so by then, I was already back on birth control pills.

I am really scared.
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Tylanas
replied on July 24th, 2006
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I just want everyone to know (so.. Just you carifairy, lol) I called planned parenthood's hotline for advice on this, and she told me that as long as I got my period, that mean's i'm fine and i'm not pregnant. It just really, really helped to hear a real person, on the phone, who is a nurse, say that.

As for the future, I am obviously to much if a ditz to properly take bcp's, even though I took them fine for over a year. One mishap has completely removed all trust in myself. I am going to schedule myself for my annual pap-smear (and hope I don't get any suprises while i'm there, like "oh, by the way you're pregnant!) and while i'm there, i'm going to ask for an iud. Mirena, I hope, although it does take a week to become fully protective. It is more effective than the copper coil one, and since i've had no problems on hormonal birth control, I should do fine on it. I'll make sure the docs give it to me, because i'll tell them my whole horror story!!
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Carifairy
replied on July 24th, 2006
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Actually, the mirena is effective immediately, but many docs do say to wait for one week....

My doc told me I could have sex that very same day =)

discharge on bcp, doncha love it? The progestin hormone in bcp is known to cause some thickening of the cervical mucous, and some women do notice a 'wetter environment' while on bcp's.

Mirena will likely also give you a wetter environment too, but as long as there is no infection, everything is a-ok.
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Tylanas
replied on July 24th, 2006
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I've been on ortho-lo (not the just-progesterone pills, as you know) more than a year now, and I don't think i've ever noticed it this thick before. The lady on the phone said it could be cause by the fact that I screwed up the cycle, but that since I had my period, it meant I wasn't pregnant. I'm still worried though. Too scared to go get a test. And I have to schedule a pap smear, and I don't want to find out then, either!
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