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A couple weeks ago, I was giving my boyfriend a handjob and he ejaculated. I'm not sure if it got on my hands but I remember wiping my hands on an old junk shirt that he had and I went to the bathroom about an hour later but used the toilet before I washed my hands. Now I'm worried that sperm was on my hand when I wiped. I heard about waiting 10-14 days to test and this past Sunday was day 14 and my period is due for this week. Last month I got it on the 20th so now I'm a couple days late but my cervix is open a lot. Since I've been so worried and stressed about this, I bought a cheap hpt and tested first thing this morning and it was negative. I guess I've been having slight cramps but they come and go during the day and they only last maybe 2 minutes. Is there any possible way that I could be pregnant from what happened or is this just stress getting the better of me?
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Can you check this first? It should answer these questions for you: Pregnancy Scared?
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So, since it was 'manual sex' and my hands were dry afterwards, there was no pregnancy risk? I'll just try to relax then, I want my period to come as soon as possible.
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Also, how do you chart and predict your periods? Are you expecting them to come around or on the same date each month?
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Well it comes around the same time every month. In May, it came on the 24th and last month it came on the 20th. I don't remember when it came before May, but I'm guessing it was around the same time too. My periods are usually regular also.
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When that happens, it's actually pretty unusual, especially if it lasts more than a few months. Or, not unusual, but it means it's actually irregular.
That's because the number of days in a month changes every month, which means that, say, a cycle that's around 29 days each cycle, will tend to fall around the same time of the month for only a couple months, and then will usually take a jump because that number is static while the number of says in a month isn't. Make sense?
IOW, your period may not be late at all. You may just be tracking it and then trying to predict it in a way that isn't sound.
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Yepp, that makes perfect sense. I never thought of it in that way. Well since I said that my cervix is open a lot and that I'm feeling 'slight' cramps here and there, is that a possibility that my period is on it's way?
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You know better than I do what typical signs or signals are your period is coming.
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haha Yeah, you're right. Well thank you for talking with me about this. It's made me feel a lot better about the situation. Posts: 7 | Registered: Jul 2011
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Hey I also want to know after how many days we can successfully test hcg to know pregnancy?
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You can test after about 2 weeks or when a period is missed. If you do test before a missed period and miss it after testing, you want to go ahead a re-test.
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