i NEED help here My girlfriend is 12 days late with her period.

We have not had any sexual contaxt in the last month .

She has the cramps like before her period but it has not started. She has no health coverage and can not afford a doctor.

She has the cramps like before her period but no flow.

Her normal cycle ranges from 28-35 days.

She is 24 and healthy
She has not been ill or changed meds at all.

No other symtoms at all.

What might be wrong?

Have her buy an over the counter pregnancy test.

If she has severe pain then she will have to go to the doctor even if she doesn't have health insurance. There are typically free clinics in most areas.

pergnancy is out as thier has been NO sexual contact during the last 30 days. What else could it be

Ami is absolutely right. Rule out pregnancy, then get her to a clinic. It could be any number of things.

If there was sexual contact within the last 60 days or so, it could still be pregnancy, and that her last "period" was in fact an implantation bleeding. Home Pregnancy Tests from drugstores, or the Dollar Store, are cheap and will rule that one out for sure.

There are other reasons that she may not have gotten her period, such as that she did not ovulate, that it is just incredibly late, or internal health problems, so if the pain continues, or if the period does not show up in the next week or so, then she does need to see a doctor.

[QUOTEWe have not had any sexual contaxt in the last month .[/QUOTE]

Define sexual contact.

Sperm is mobile. You could populate a small city with people who were conceived by non-penetrative but ejaculatory sex. So try and recall if there were any non-penetrative sex doings.

Option #2: She became pregnant in the previous month, but had some breakthrough bleeding last month which she assumed was her menstrual period.

Previous advice was good. Get that cheap, safe, reliable over-the-counter pregnancy test kit.

Sperm has noy come in contact with any part of her body and in more then three months as I have been very ill and not up to any type of activity

The flow last month was fully normal and lastest a full 5 days

Any other ideas

Almost every woman experience missing one period. I don't believe it's a great concern yet. The pregnancy test is still a good idea though. I've experienced the cramps without a period and was never overly concerned. The period always came the next month.

how long should we wait to take action.... is it ok to wait till mid jan and see where we are

I would suggest a pregnancy test now, but unless your girlfriend is in severe pain, then yeah a doctor visit can definitely wait till mid or even end of January.

If she's pregnant, do you want the baby? (On the answer to that question depends how long you can wait to know.)

no, the babby would be placed up for adoption as abortion is a sin

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as abortion is a sin

No offense meant, but I see a bit of a contradiction here. If your screen name indicates you are Christian, then carrying on an intimate relationship outside of marriage would also be a sin.

Well if the baby would be adopted out, then there's no rush. You can just wait and see. And a single missed period, if not due to pregnancy, is not a serious medical sympton all by itself.

Many guilty lovers have worried about such punctuation errors for millennia.

Thought of another reason to miss a period:
the fact that you are worrying. First, your girlfriend was probably stressedand worried about you being sick- then she realised her period was late and that stressed her more. Such worry alone can cause a delay of/ missing of a period.

well as I said we have had no sexual contact in months so unless she is lieing and haveing an affair elsewhere (doubtful but ALWAYS possible) then pregancy is not an issue at all.

years ago, Upon giving our lives to christ we both vowed to abstain from contact of that sort. On the upside no sighns of pregancy are present at this stage thus the cheating aspect of things is less likeily by the day.

If that does to out to be the case then it must have been the lords will. I just wanted to make sure that her health was ok. That to me is the key concern.

http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/menstruation/a/lateperiod.htm gives every reason why menstruation can be missed, to pick a few at random:

1. Emotional stress

2. Certain medications such as contraceptives (oral, implanted, and injected), oral corticosteriods, antidepressants, antipsychotics, thyroid, and some chemotherapy drugs may cause amenorrhea for some women.

3. Hormonal imbalance

4. Women who are malnourished or extremely underweight often experience amenorrhea (no menstruation). This occurs often in women with eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia.

There are more reasons than just pregnancy.

One of my nieces does not cycle correctly, her menstruation can be a couple of months a part one month she menstruated, stopped, then a week later it started again. This was due to a hormonal imbalance which now she is on the Pill (the contraceptive pill) which helps to regulate her menstruation. She also suffered from a severe menstruation (lots of cramps, lots of flow) when she went from the pill to the patch. The Pill supplies hormones to her body which can not supply them in correct levels itself. Thus men should not jump to the conclusion that a woman on the Pill is a loose woman.

Although one missed menstruation is not "bad" or indicative of pregnancy in itself, it could be a symptom of something more serious and should be looked at by Doctor. You may not have medical insurance, but there are various programs, free clinics, medical assistance, sliding scale pay plans which you should check into.

A lot of running can also cause periods to be delayed or missed. Anyway, anyone who is sexually active should be seen by a gynecologist, who will administer an exam and a pap smear, to find any infection or worse as well as any pregnancy.