[DecemberSeptember]

Hi everyone, I'm very concerned and I'd like some help. My boyfriend and I were together on the first of June. We did not have sex, but we were naked and I was concerned about pre-ejaculate (NOT semen) getting around my legs/vaginal area after very briefly touching. The next day I took the Next Choice one dose pill just to be safe, as I'm not on the pill, even though I'd like to be. I experienced some of the negative side effects of it. Now I am worried again, because I was supposed to get my period on the seventeenth, and it is now the nineteenth and I still have not gotten it, although I have experienced PMS symptoms (headache, slight cramps). Is this normal and should I be worried? I'm very scared...

[lissy73]

Im confused about your question...you said you and your partner didn't have sex but are concerned about getting pregnant?

There can be lots of reasons you didn't get your period, but I would be 100% sure that pregnacy is not the reason you missed it.

[DecemberSeptember]

I was concerned because I might have accidentally come in contact with the pre-ejaculate or "precum". I was under the impression that you could become pregnant from that on rare occasions.

[lissy73]

While there is some debate on this, I don't think pre-ejaculation contains any sperm, it is more of a lubricant that prepares for sex. So as I said I think you can breath easy and relax, you won't be pregnant

[DecemberSeptember]

Okay, thanks! Praying it comes soon.

[KMonte85]

pre-ejaculation does contain sperm, although not in the same dense quantities as semen. It can cause pregnancy, but it basically needs to be the perfect storm of pre-ejaculate being exposed far enough into the vagina to enter the uterus.

Given what you've said, December, the chances you would have become pregnant are very slim. Taking the One Choice should certainly ease your mind about being pregnant, and it is definitely a possibility that those medications will delay a period, as will stress/worry. If you're really, really nervous then go get a cheap home pregnancy test to give you answers.

But really, most likely the medication and the worry is just causing your period to be a little later than usual.


(Side Note: What torture! You're scared you may have had sexual relations that exposed you to the possibility of pregnancy, so you take that pill. That pill makes your period late!!! So you suffer for an extra week pondering if it worked, if it didn't, if you're pregnant, if you're not. And the worrying can delay a period even more! Life is unfair. End of Side Note)