My period is 8 days late but I'm not pregnant

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Have have a monthly cycle app. I don't usually click into it every day. I'm nearly certain I logged my period on the correct date last month in December.

Anyways I was calculating my period to arrive for last week on the Sunday.

I'm Christmas week, I was looking forward to the upcoming Christmas and I was going about my duties as normal looking forward to the Christmas. Then I received some news. I felt shocked and upset and I felt nearl ly sick to my stomach. This stress manifested in pain all around my body. I felt it in my head, my stomach right down to my toes. I felt so sick. I wasn't physically sick.

I was calculating ovulation to be about Christmas day or boxing day. I knew from the stress that I experienced earlier in the week that maybe it would delay ovulation.

So I was expecting this period to be late. It's 8 days late. I wasn't expecting it to be this late.

Has anyone else experience the same before? Late period due to stress? I'm definitely not pregnant because my relationship is sexless.

Still no period. 9 days late. It was never this late before. This is cycle day 37 now and it was never this long before. When it was late before I that it was due to stress,it was 35 or 36 cycle days.

I have heard some wine a cycles have been effected by having the covid vaccine. Could this be it?

Have you had your booster recently? I skipped a month every time I’ve had my jabs.

Mine went haywire after the jab, really disappointing as I badly wanted to be pregnant! Is that a possibility?

I got my first two jabs last spring with no issues.

I got the booster back in November. It was about the 14th of November and my period was due and it came as normal.

If it was the booster that has an effect, surely I would have missed Decembers period instead but that didn't happen. Decembers period was on time. How come it took nearly two months for the period to be late after the booster. Is that common.

It's mad how the booster is having such an effect.

I'm definitely not pregnant.

I'm very sorry to hear this. I hope it settles down for you and you get your wish of a pregnancy.

The booster effed up my periods and then I had The Period From Hell.

How old are you OP?

My booster didn't affect my period but my second Covid vaccination (Pfizer) did, I was about 10 days late and then had a ridiculously heavy period so it could possibly be that. Everything returned to normal after that one though.

Do I count this period as a missed period and presume the next one will be along in February as normal-ish? Or will it still come.

I need to know where I am now with the monthly bleed. If it's going to come or not.

I suppose I could just egg it on tomorrow and wear a white pants and forget about packing some pads for the day. It's typical. I will get it then, no doubt about it.

I'm 39.

I had this from stress years ago before I was ever pregnant

I was wearing period knickers every day since last Monday the 10th in anticipation for the flow but it still hasn't arrived. I don't have a lot of the period pants and I am washing and drying them every few days.

I use clue to track my periods and at least once a year I have a 40 day cycle. I am usually a 29 day clockwork kind of person so it always throws me right off. I always take a test despite DH having the snip, just in case, but it always just turns up eventually and my cycle restarts.

Yes, this has happened to me.

However it’s also just happened again but this time I think it was the booster as I had several days of spotting before my period actually started. I’ve heard others say the same. When did you have yours?

I was due a hospital appointment last week but it was rescheduled for the 28th. It's a colonoscopy procedure and I am not too keen about having my period or even ovulating during the procedure. I don't know of I'm going to bleed this week or anytime soon or if I missed the period and go straight to ovulation. I need to know where I am for pain relief.

My booster was the 14th of Nov.

When I was tracking periods trying to get pg years ago (so long before covid) I noticed that I actually had one or two very long cycles a year.

Sometimes I could guess what had caused it (eg if I'd been ill/run down the previous month) and sometimes it seemed completely random.

I think my longest was 14 or 15 days late. An absolute PITA.

I was about the same age as you (10 years later and still not menopausal so it's not always that either).

If you miss a period this whole cycle its called anovulatory cycle. Stress (and other things) can be the cause of it.

Its happened to me a few times in my life.

In normally regular every 28 days but one month I was 8 days late, not pregnant as I'm sterile now but I just went back to normal after that with no explanation. Strange though.

It could be your booster or it could be something else, I wouldn’t worry if it’s the first time in your life. It happens. I agree with @ditalini that usually there is one long period and one short per year.

My last period was on the 12th of December. I was estimating my period to arrive for the 9th of January.

I will just presume this one is missed at this stage.

It’s not missed, it’s just delayed.

I got my booster 28th Dec during my period had a normal period, stopped for 3 days then I've had light spotting ever since

I had no side effects from any vaccine but stress and upset always upsets my cycle. A lot.

@greenlynx

It’s not missed, it’s just delayed.

When does it become missed instead of delayed. It was never delayed by 9 days before.