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Failed morning after pill?

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girlinapanic · 19/01/2004 12:57

In a bit of a flap. Took the morning after pill on New Year's Eve (11 hrs after unprotected sex, dumb, dumb, dumb) and followed instructions exactly. I can't remember date of LMP but it was definitely finished before Xmas and I would say I was ovulating around the time we had sex. Still no AF and I just did a test (Acon) and got a very very very faint pink line. Does this mean I'm preg? Sorry to sound so stupid, but I wondered if the pill could have affected hormones and given me a false positive? It's not the end of the world if I am, but it's totally unplanned as the baby is still, well, a baby.

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popsycal · 19/01/2004 13:01

What do the instructions say (not familair with this particular test)
Don't think you can get a false negative
and it is possible..happened to a friend of mine
hope you are ok
good luck

popsycal · 19/01/2004 13:01

i think the mornng after pill is just a big dose of the normal pill
the preg test looks for the hcG hormone
which is something different
i think

WideWebWitch · 19/01/2004 13:04

think you prob are preg tbh. faint line is still a line imo.

zebra · 19/01/2004 13:05

I know someone who got 3rd child after failed Morning After Pill... it does happen.

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girlinapanic · 19/01/2004 13:07

The Levonelle website says the pill is 95% effective within 24 hrs. Guess I'm in the lucky 5%. Yikes.

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beetroot · 19/01/2004 13:07

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tabitha · 19/01/2004 13:09

It happened to me!

ThomCat · 19/01/2004 13:13

The morning after pill didn't work for me, and thank God it didn't!!!!! I could have missed out on Lottie, doesn't bear thinking about!

zebra · 19/01/2004 13:15

I thought the MAP could result in problems with baby if you took it more than 4 days after conception (or some time threshold.. probably after the embryo would have implanted?). Meaning, if you take it in the right time window it either works or it doesn't. It doesn't do anything else... am I right?

Kittypickle · 19/01/2004 13:17

I had a similar situation, took MAP, 5 days after period due took a test and got really very feint pink line. Took another test a few days later and it was much stronger. Sorry, probably not what you wanted to hear.

aloha · 19/01/2004 13:50

MAP is like all contraception - fallible. My friend had her third after using emergency contraception. I think that pink line is a positive - the pill doesn't affect pregnancy tests. BTW my friend's third was a lovely girl and a fantastic addition to the two boys. Her mother is very grateful the pill failed though she was pretty shellshocked at the time.

Kittypickle · 19/01/2004 13:55

I would like to add that everytime I look at my gorgeous daughter I am delighted the MAP failed!

JanHR · 19/01/2004 14:01

I took the MAP 3 years ago. But in August 2002 I gave birth to my daughter. I am glad it failed or we would never have got round to having chldren

JanHR · 19/01/2004 14:01

That should say 2 years ago

beetroot · 19/01/2004 14:05

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girlinapanic · 19/01/2004 14:07

Thanks for all the postings. Seems like there's quite a few people in the 5% failure club! I guess I will wait a couple more days and do another test, but it sounds like I am up the duff again. Not quite how I planned it, although we did want a 3rd child one day, but I believe that these things are meant to be, sometimes. Actually getting quite excited about joining the September thread....

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aloha · 19/01/2004 14:10

I see it's all girls who got through the MAP! A coincidence...?

beetroot · 19/01/2004 14:15

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M2T · 19/01/2004 14:15

One of my friends missed a couple of her contraceptive pills so they used condoms for a week or so. One burst so after 24 hours she took the morning after pill..... 8mths later, born 5 weeks early was a baby boy!

He rrrrrrrreally wanted to be born....against all the odds!

SueW · 19/01/2004 19:29

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bon · 19/01/2004 22:05

Failed for me! Took it next day and now have a beautiful third son, almost a year old.

wilbur · 21/01/2004 10:42

Well, I guess I can stop hiding now. Yes, I am the lucky recipient of the failed MAP. Took another test this am and now there is a definite line. You were right, ladies. I'm pretty shellshocked at the timing as it means changing a lot of plans, but that's okay (my MIL won't think so when I tell her we won't be coming on the amazing trip they have planned for their 40th wedding, I feel really bad about that as they are brilliant and are so looking forward to going away with all their kids and grandkids.) My real magging worry is that I feel dd (8 months) is going to be short-changed. I was looking forward to spending more time with her when ds starts doing more hours at nursery in Sept, but now I will have a newborn then and she won't get the extra attention. She hasn't had a very calm and attentive life so far as my dad went into hospital when she was 6 weeks old and died 3 weeks later, and our life since then has been a flurry of organising, admin, solicitors, house selling and so on, not to mention the fact that I have been so sad and missing my father so much. I just feel she hasn't had the best of me at all . I realise it will be lovely later on as hopefully the close age means they will be good friends (fingers crossed), but it feels overwhelming right now.

Then, of course, I feel extra guilty for even thinking this when so many women have trouble getting pregnant. I have good friends in that position currently and I have to say that I am almost ashamed to tell them. Uuuurgh, sorry, I'm a rambly moaning minny this morning.

codswallop · 21/01/2004 10:46

Congratulations W!!!!!

These things always end up as huge blessing

Well done

mears · 21/01/2004 10:53

Please do not worry about you dd - my ds2 was 7 months old when I fell pregnany with ds3. You will cope honestly and so will she. If anything, a baby will be normality for her. Ds2 accapted ds3 immediately. Now ds1 was 2 1/4 yrs old when ds2 was born and his response was entirely different....

celandine · 21/01/2004 11:06

Congrats Wilbur. I too had been thinking I was unexpectedly pregnant but I got my period yesterday. I'm mildy disappointed cos I'd started thinking how nice it would be to have a newborn again, even though ds is only 6 months.

However shocked you are now, I bet, like the other threads say, that in a few years' time you'll look at your child and think 'thank goodness the map failed'

All the best