# Ladies: What's the latest you've ever been and NOT been pregnant? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 31, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867 "2003-12-31T00:48:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/1 "2003-12-31T00:48:30Z")
I realize there are a lot of people who do not have regular periods. What’s the latest you’ve ever been to find out you weren’t pregnant? What about those of you who are very regular? What was the latest you ever were? What was it (do you think) that made you late? Stress? Something else? Where’s the “start stressing out” smiley? ---
**Author:** ![Furry\_Mongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Furry\_Mongoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furry_Mongoose)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/2 "2003-12-31T00:54:48Z")
Just under 4 weeks and it was worry related… It scared the living daylights out of me. ---
**Author:** ![zephyrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/35a633/32.png) [@zephyrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyrine)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/3 "2003-12-31T01:03:29Z")
Irregular: 5 months. Cause: unhealthy living. The next time I was 5 months late it turned out I was pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/4 "2003-12-31T01:09:18Z")
I’m two weeks late right now and thought that was bad… ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/5 "2003-12-31T01:31:59Z")
Test. It’s worth the money to get an answer, especially if you’re more than a couple of weeks late. If you are more than a couple of weeks late and you get a negative result, see a doctor. Having irregular periods was the first tip off for all of the women in my family that we were hypothyroid, but there can be other weirdo gynecological things going on and if you catch them early, all the better for you and your future reproductive health. Um, I’ll stop nagging now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/6 "2003-12-31T01:37:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Furry Mongoose \* > \*\*Just under 4 weeks and it was worry related… > It scared the living daylights out of me. \*\* Did you take a test during that 4 weeks? Or did you not know the truth until you started your period? ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/7 "2003-12-31T01:38:54Z")
Just realized after reading **TeaElle** ’s post that it might not be common knowledge that Im a dude… FYI. : D ---
**Author:** ![Snuggles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Snuggles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snuggles)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/8 "2003-12-31T01:47:54Z")
I totally skipped my cycle last June, and went to the doctors and I wasn’t pregnant, and then the cycle returned to semi-normal the following month. Sort of scared me though. I couldn’t have been pregnant you see… and I wasn’t under any particular stress, so I thought I had something majorly wrong with me, seeing as my cycle had been fairly regular for the past few years. So the longest would be a lil over a full month. And that’s only happened once. My friend though would go a couple months sometimes without getting hers, however she is very thin, and that could have something to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/9 "2003-12-31T01:53:00Z")
Twice (that I can remember) I’ve missed a month. The first time I was _so_ stressed out by school, it came as absolutely no surprise when I missed a month. The second time I was also stressed out, keeping radically and bizarrely erratic hours, so that wasn’t exactly a shock either. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/10 "2003-12-31T02:05:14Z")
I had about a 40 day cycle once so I guess that made me 2 or 3 weeks late. I was at my all-time highest weight, or near it, so that’s probably what did it; before then I was very regular. Now I’m on the Pill, but I’ve lost a bunch of weight so I don’t know if I’m regular again or not. ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/11 "2003-12-31T02:10:35Z")
I’ve probably missed it for no reason 3 or 4 times in twenty-seven years. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/12 "2003-12-31T02:44:43Z")
I once went to 38 days,but I was young; maybe 21 and still a virgin so I wasn’t worried. It took quite a lot of years to become regular. i never was really,but it was usually 24-29 days. Now I am on the pill, its always 28 days. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/13 "2003-12-31T03:03:26Z")
When not on the Pill, about a week. Maybe. I’ve always been very regular. When on the Pill, I once skipped a month. I was absolutely certain I was pregnant (despite the Pill); I had never skipped, wasn’t stressed or sick–there was no reason to skip a month. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/14 "2003-12-31T03:42:47Z")
Six months, says **Pepper Mill**. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/15 "2003-12-31T03:47:08Z")
My first thought was “if you have to ask, you’re pregnant…” I’ve never been late by more than 2 days. This will be a’changing in around 10 years, I think! ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/16 "2003-12-31T03:54:44Z")
About two years. No cause the doctors could find. I was under a little stress. I had lost some weight. But two years is a long time to go for a little stress and 15 lbs. (I’m five six/seven. During the periodless period I weight around 107 pounds. If that’s enough to push a girl over the edge, there isn’t a non-character actress in Hollywood that has had a period in years) Before that I was 28 days, 2 hours. So regular I could set atomic time by my PMS. After than I’ve been continually irregular. Infertile for a three year period, followed by a surprise pregnancy that we didn’t discover until the end of the first trimester. (Silly me, skipping a period or two is perfectly normal - and I couldn’t get pregnant with medical intervetion - why would I imagine I’d get pregnant by chance). However, I consider myself blessed…most of that two year period I was celebate - less worry. I stayed on the pill during that time. And one of my girlfriends had a two year long period around the same time. I’d rather not have a period than have one that doesn’t stop. I’ll second the “if in doubt, test” The peace of mind alone is worth the $12. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/17 "2003-12-31T04:05:01Z")
9 months… I used to only have periods every nine months. Would’ve been scared but I wasn’t sexually active. I was irregular until I found a good birth control… NuvaRing. I recommend it to anyone looking for bc. I missed last month (no spotting but slight tissue loss) and there is a pregnancy test in my future, but I’m not worried. I’m also hypothyroid (I’ve been borderline since three y/o or so and finally went on meds at 21). Is there a time limit between getting preggers and having it show up on a storebought test? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/18 "2003-12-31T04:27:30Z")
I am SOOO glad I was born with a penis… Sorry, I’ll leave now… MY hats off to ya’ ladies though… jeez… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/19 "2003-12-31T05:25:02Z")
I’m fairly regular. The latest I’ve ever been is a week. Since I was 101% positive I wasn’t pregnant, that wasn’t _nearly_ as annoying as the two occasions it showed up 2 weeks early… ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867/20 "2003-12-31T05:26:37Z")
I had a 41 day cycle in college once. I had _just_ lost my virginity about a month and a half before, so I was sweating bullets. Since then I’ve had some irregular cycles (thank you hypothyroidism), but I’m pretty much 25 days. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-whats-the-latest-youve-ever-been-and-not-been-pregnant/221867.md?page=2)