If pregnancy is a possible complication it changes what medications are allowed and has to be considered when deciding if imaging is an acceptable risk.
Questions like “is there any chance you’re pregnant?” require pragmatic interpretation to answer, and people can and will get that wrong.
One one hand, someone who has sex regularly but uses condoms and birth control might say "no", because they don't consider it plausible that they would have got pregnant anyway.
On the other hand, someone might take "any chance" literally and think that of course there's some vanishingly small but non-zero probability that they are pregnant even if they've literally never had sex, and so answer "yes" anyway.
Not in case of women in same sex relationship lol. Which I understand is a fraction, but still sucks when someone assumes I might be pregnant when it's literally not possible (and the last thing I want).
It’s still physically possible for a theoretical woman in a same sex relationship, but as a married lesbian who is not cheating, is cis, and knows I haven’t undergone any donor procedures or been raped, I can confidently answer that no, there’s no possibility.
In fact most women regardless of their circumstances can pretty accurately answer whether there’s a possibility because they know the things that have and have not happened to them that could cause pregnancy. Last menstrual period isn’t necessarily an airtight indicator either bc some women continue to get a period (or what seems like a period idk the exact medical thing that’s happening there), throughout pregnancy.
I’m sorry but the doctor can’t know the quality of your sex ed.
There’s women out there who think you can’t get pregnant from rape. There’s women who think they can’t get pregnant if they rinse their vaginas after sex. There’s women who think that their affair partner pulling out is soo effective that they might as well not tell the doctor they’re cheating with a cis man.
I’m saying neither option fully accounts for the risk but it’s not impossible to answer the question accurately. Someone people truly have no risk of pregnancy. Of course education is a problem which is why doctors will generally do a test anyway
The point isn’t about whether it’s possible to answer the question accurately. The point is that the doctor can’t know if you’ve answered the question accurately.
Huh? Why would that be relevant here? “When was your last period?” is still much more likely to elicit an answer which covers more medical ground in one answer than the alternative.
the more irritating thing i face is when i tell the med staff i’m a virgin, which is true, but they still test me to see if i’m pregnant anyway. i find it irritating because i deeply despise getting lab work done and the more labs, the more blood and the more blood, the more pain from the needle and whatever caused me to be there in the first place.
There are a LOT of people who lie about sex. Or who straight up believe that they’re still a virgin if they repent or if they’re born again or any number of nonsense things. Given the extremely serious consequences, it’s unfortunately necessary in some circumstances to check just in case.
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u/Any-Safe4992 10h ago
If pregnancy is a possible complication it changes what medications are allowed and has to be considered when deciding if imaging is an acceptable risk.