I truly hope this hasn’t been posted before...I’m not used to forum controls, so I am not sure if I am doing this right, especially since I am limited to mobile.
I thinks it’s one of the biggest fears of most girls my age. Teen pregnancy. Getting shunned from your peers and even your parents. As someone with bad health anxiety, I am prone to go on Google searches for hours when I feel something strange.
My current fear is pregnancy. I have a very regular period. Every month on the day, without fail, for 3 days a month. This month, I am late by a few days. I have never had sex, but a quick Google search told me that if any semen even gets close to your vaginal opening, you have a chance of getting pregnant. My boyfriend and I have had some kind of contact this month, but I fear that going into detail will make this sexually explicit. Any real sexual contact has not happened, but I will say that if something was on his hands...well, I could be in trouble, despite telling him to stop very quickly.
I noticed last week that I was not having any of my typical PMS symptoms. I then went on a long train of searches that told me, yes, I could be pregnant without having sex. I began to panic, and a few days later I began feeling the PMS symptoms that are also associated with early pregnancy. Of course, I read up on a bunch of symptoms and began convincing myself I had the pregnancy-specific symptoms. I have had breast pain, mild cramping, lower back pain (now gone), headaches, fatigue, high heart rate, shakiness, low appetite, insomnia, etc.
I told my mom the other day that I was late. She immediately questioned if I was pregnant. I said no, but I have that scared part of my brain umsettled. I don’t know how I would explain to her if I was pregnant. I told her if it doesn’t come within a few days to take me to the doctor, but I am still afraid of what I may see and it’s causing me a great deal of unease.
It is worth mentioning that I have been exposed to family issue recently and the stress of thinking my boyfriend may be breaking up with me, so I don’t know if that stress could cause a missed period. I have bad anxiety as well and seasonal depression that has started to kick in, and my mom has a thyroid problem that I may have inherited and beginning to show. With this kind of information, do any of you think I should be very worried about pregnancy? Or are my fears a figment of my imagination?
I also apologize for the length of this...I go deep into detail. I just need to know if I am freaking out for nothing. I haven’t been able to sleep and have been constantly shaking at the notion of pregnancy. I just want to know if people think it’s more likely a combination fo my health and stress or if I could be pregnant.
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