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Q: effectiveness of pill when taken at different times of day

asked by: one_proud_dad on December 3rd, 2007

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It looks like I'm one of the few males to post here, but from a family of many girls I won't sweat it. Very Happy

My question is, how ineffective is the pill when the ingestion time changes for one day? My fiance normally takes it at 7 am and took it at 8 pm. I'm not concerned about pregnancy for two reasons 1) we use a condom also 2) we plan on adding to our family as soon as we are married anyway. I was trying to do some research to find the effetiveness when taken irregularly and also how long it would take to return to "normal". (Sorry I'm not up with my professional terms....I teach PE) Thanks in advance for the help.

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liveinyourlovexx

replied on December 5th, 2007

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Well, I have learned that a few hours won't be too bad, but 7 hours and up I believe counts as missing one pill.
It's not too bad to miss a pill, you just keep taking them regularly. Missing one pill is ok and you can keep on without having to use backup but missing 2 or more, you have to use backup for 7 days to get back on track( some pills can take 14 days, it should say in the instruction paper that comes with the pill).
So, she took hers at 8pm instead of am, no biggy just take tomorrows pill at the am time and keep taking them regularly from then on.
I'm always a few minutes off, so is probably a lot of the female bc population. Minutes happen.
But a lot of hours, that can hurt efficiency.
Hope that helped.
Liveinlove

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