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My dearest and I always use two forms of birth control : the pill and condoms.
I take my pills regularly (usually around eleven PM, give or take half an hour) and am on Seasonale, therefore I get my period every three months. I am nearing the end of the first month in the pack, so I have over two months to go until I get my period. I am impatient. ;P
Saturday night we were enjoying some Valentine's Day Eve love-making and the condom broke at the very end.

Here was the situation:
He needed to pee beforehand, and he was already hard, and he said it hurt trying to pee when he was hard so he got off in the bathroom. (1)
We went at it and he came again. (2/3)
Changed the condom, went at it again, he didn't climax a fourth time. He felt the condom snap and pulled out right away.

I know that when I stop taking my birth control pills (usually I miss a pill due to sickness cause I get sick a lot), I get my period right away. It usually hits hard for about a week, and I'm usually miserable.

If I stop taking my pills for a week to see if I get my period, will this be a real period, as well as an accurate way to determine that I am not pregnant, or will I get a "fake" period if I am?

xo

My doctor is unavailable, that's why I'm asking here razz
I've stopped taking them before, several times (I've been on the pill since I was 13, so a good six years now) and never had any problems except a crazy bad period.

My only question is if I stop taking them and get a period, is that proof that I'm not pregnant or is it just crazy heavy spotting?

Some pregnant women continue to bleed during pregnancy as if having normal periods. On the other hand, stress can make a woman who isn't pregnant miss her period. So whether or not a woman bleeds is absolutely no indication of whether or not she is pregnant.

The only way to know if you are pregnant is by taking a pregnancy test. As Niko said, you can take a pregnancy test while you're on birth control anyway. So I see no reason to stop taking your pills, be unprotected for all that time, and mess up your cycle like that.

Home pregnancy tests often say that they are effective as early as the first day of your missed period. That can be confusing for women who don't get their period every month. But what it's really trying to say is that it's effective once a woman would be roughly two weeks along if was pregnant (a regular period would come roughly two weeks after ovulation, that's why the boxes says it that way).

But all in all you shouldn't have much to worry about as long as you have been good about taking your pills every day at the same time. When used as directed the pill is right around 98% effective. So I wouldn't even worry about it if I were you. But if you want to know for sure, wait two weeks then take a test. I'd recommend staying on your birth control for the time being.