The right time to take a pregnancy test is around a week after you've missed a period. The results from such a test are relevant. Your girlfriend can take another test if she wants. If the result is the same (negative), your girlfriend is probably not pregnant. Missing a period is probably due coming off "the pill” ; lack of menstruation is an expected and temporary side effect of having suppressed ovulation using hormones. It may take some time for her period to normalize. Usually it takes 2-3 months before ovulation spontaneously re-establishes itself; it can take up to 2 years in the longest cases.


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