Regular cycles are anywhere from 25 to 35 days long from the beginning of one period to the beginning of the next. And it’s normal for your cycles to vary slightly, like one month your cycle might be 30 days long, and the next one it might be 32 days long, and that’s a normal variance. But if the day comes when your period should have started and it hasn’t, give it a couple of days, especially if you’ve varied a few days in the past from month to month. But if several days have gone by and you really should have started your period and it hasn’t started, then you should either rule out or confirm pregnancy as the cause by taking a home pregnancy test, because the first sign of pregnancy is actually a missed period. So that leaves a lot of women wondering when they should take a pregnancy test if they don’t have regular periods.
Regular cycles are anywhere from 25 to 35 days long from the beginning of one period to the beginning of the next and it’s normal for your for your cycles to vary slightly like one month your cycles your cycle might be 30 days long and the next one it might be 32 days long and that’s a normal variance but if the day comes when your period should have started and it
Hasn’t give it a couple of days especially if you vary it a few days in the past from month to month but if several days have gone by and you really should have started your period and it hasn’t started then you should either rule out or confirm pregnancy is the cause by taking a home pregnancy test because the first sign of pregnancy is actually a missed period so
That leaves a lot of women wondering when they should take a pregnancy test if they don’t have regular periods here’s some information about how home pregnancy tests work they detect a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin or hcg in the urine and levels rise exponentially during the beginning of pregnancy and kind of peak out between eight to eleven weeks
Gestation and then fall back down to a pretty consistent level for the rest of the pregnancy but hcg levels aren’t elevated enough in the urine until about two weeks after conception for them to be detected by a home pregnancy test so if you conceived and then you took a test like a week later then you’d likely get a false falsely negative result because you’re
Pregnant but hcg levels aren’t high enough yet to actually detect the pregnancy so if you had a sexual encounter where you think you may have gotten pregnant then wait at least two weeks before you take a pregnancy test and if that first was all this negative wait one more week and take another one and if you’re seeing negative results about three weeks after the
Time when you had unprotected intercourse then pregnancy isn’t likely now if you’re sexually active on a regular basis you may just be wondering if you need to take a test every week and i would say that you should just test if you start having symptoms of pregnancy or you’re experiencing something that’s abnormal to you like most women ninety percent of women are
Feeling nauseated by about eight to nine weeks gestation and some women are vomiting some aren’t so if starting to fill that or you have unusual breast tenderness food aversions food cravings frequent urination headaches an abnormal level of fatigue of course these things can all be caused by other things but if this is becoming like a new norm for you then you
Should take a home pregnancy test again to either rule out or confirm pregnancies that cause for your symptoms by the time you’re having symptoms in pregnancy a home pregnancy test will definitely be positive so if you get a negative result and these symptoms persist or get worse then you should talk with a doctor who can determine what they’re due to and then tell
You if treatment is necessary if you’re having irregular periods and you want to have a baby talk with your doctor about it because when you’re having irregular cycles it’s really hard to know when and even if you’re ovulating at all and so a doctor can determine if there’s an underlying cause behind it all that can be addressed so that you can begin having regular
Cycles you can ovulate know when you’re ovulating or about the time when you’re ovulating in time intercourse with ovulation so you have a chance at getting pregnant good luck with everything and if you have more questions in the future for me feel free to ask them on our facebook page at facebook.com forward slash intermountain moms and recommend us to your friends and family too
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When should I take a pregnancy test if I'm having irregular periods? By IntermountainParents