Wondering..Pregnant or Not?

Can anyone help me?  I had intercourse with my husband on May 3rd, the next day I had my Implanon removed. My LMP was April 11th.  Is there a possibility that I could be pregnant?  Had 2 negative pregnancy tests this week. Not sure what I should do next. We want to be pregnant but are impatient as to waiting to take another HPT.  Please help!  Thanking you in advance.

[AnnieBrooke]

Though the day you take the Implanon out you are no longer considered to be protected from pregnancy, you would also have to ovulate.  Sperm can live one day, but your body would have to be working really fast to ovulate in that short time window.  My guess is that you will see a period soon, delayed because of the removal of the Implanon.  Just a guess.  Good luck!

[Readyfornumber4]

Thank you for your input.   I believe that I ovulated the last week in April.  So, I will be looking for that period.  Thanks!!

[AnnieBrooke]

If you had your Implanon in, you would not have ovulated, right?  It's a hormone-based birth control system, and they work by keeping you from ovulating, if I understand them correctly.  I was reacting to your statement " I had intercourse with my husband on May 3rd, the next day I had my Implanon removed."  Are you saying that you had intercourse on May 3rd and then had the Implanon removed on May 4?  If so, you would not have ovulated in April.

[Readyfornumber4]

OOOOhhhhhh!!!  ok...thank you for telling me that.  So, I did not ovulate in April like I thought.  Got it.  I was driving myself crazy thinking about this .  

[Readyfornumber4]

I found this on cks.library.nhs.uk:

Women who have had unprotected sexual intercourse in the 7 days before IUD removal:
The primary mode of action of the copper IUD is prevention of fertilization. Ovulation still occurs and, with the untimely removal of an IUD, an ovum may be fertilized before device removal, and subsequently implant after removal.
If sexual intercourse with no additional contraception has occurred in the preceding 7 days, removal of the device may therefore leave the woman at risk of pregnancy.
The need to remove the copper IUD at this time should be reconsidered.
If the copper IUD is to be removed, the woman should consider using emergency contraception (see the CKS topic on Contraception - emergency).
Women should be advised to use condoms or abstain from sexual intercourse for 7 days before copper IUD removal.

[AnnieBrooke]

Hon, you did say you had Implanon, right?  It's an implant in the arm, am I correct?  It acts by giving you a low, slow dose of hormones, and prevents pregnancy through hormonal action.  Birth control methods that act by giving you a hormone dose usually (in fact, I think it's "always") act by tricking your body into thinking you are pregnant, and you don't ovulate.

An IUD is an object (copper covered or not) that is placed inside your uterus.  It does indeed apparently operate by preventing the egg from implanting, not by preventing ovulation.  But when you said Implanon, I took it to mean the slender rod inserted into the arm.  That one operates by hormones.  Does Implanon make an IUD also?

[Readyfornumber4]

I don't think Implanon makes an IUD.  It was inserted under the skin in my arm.

[AnnieBrooke]

OK, that is what I thought.  So the material you quoted about IUDs, "Ovulation still occurs and, with the untimely removal of an IUD, an ovum may be fertilized before device removal" although perfectly right for an IUD, has nothing to do with your Implanon.  An IUD works by physically being there inside your uterus, and interfereing in some way with embryos -- science doesn't know if it makes the uterus think that everything there is a foreign object and it is trying to shake it out, or just what,  but that is how they work.  Usually they don't even involve hormones, they just work because they are a foreign object in the uterus.  

An Implanon is simply a delivery system for hormones (progestins), which keep you from ovulating.  (Having something implanted in your arm would not do a thing to interfere with embryos implanting in the uterus.)  So although the material you quoted is perfectly true for IUDs, it is not applicable to Implanon.

Besides everything else, I was thinking about this last night and realized that even if you *did* ovulate in the last week of April, you would not have gotten pregnant from that ovulation from sexual activity on the 3rd of May.  The sperm could last until May 4, but the egg would have been long gone.  Unlike spermies, eggs are only available for fertilization for up to (at max) 24 hours after ovulation.

Anyway, good luck with everything!  I hope you get pregs soon!

[Readyfornumber4]

Thank you so much for all  your input you have given me.  As you can see I am a bit confused.  It says that I ovulated on May 2nd.  This is really working my brain.  LOL.  I'm just gonna let time tell.  Hopefully we will be prego soon!!!

[AnnieBrooke]

I don't know what "it says that I ovulated on May 2nd" means, but you would not have ovulated as long as the Implanon was in, and probably even for a while afterward, because it takes a little while for the hormones that Implanon puts into your system to clear out.  It might take a month or more for the progestin to go out of your body, and as long as it is there, you won't ovulate.  My suggestion is that once you get your next period, use an ovulation test kit at around Day 12-15 (Day 1 being the first day of your flow) to see if you are back to normal yet.  It will also help you to time sexual relations for the maximum possibility of getting pregnant.  Again, I wish you the best with your upcoming pregnancy.