Birth Control Pill Cycle Question Posted: 01-08-08 16:38pm
For a girl who has been on the birth
control pill ortho cyclin for about 6
months now.. she has recently started her
green pill which is supposed to last 7
days, but she started it one day early and
missed a blue pill(So she had 4 green and
1 blue left in her pack). She realized
this 3 days after she started taking the
green pills and immediately took her blue
pill(the same day as the 3rd green pill)
and then continued to take the rest of the
green pills. She is supposed to start the
new pack on wednesday(tomorrow) but her
normal cycle would be to start the new
pack on thursday. The question is: Would
it be better to skip the (wednesday's)
pill and start the new pack on the
thursday as the normal cycle would be or
to start the next pack as soon as she is
finished with the current pack? Also,
would the fact that she took the blue pill
in the middle of the green pills affect
the pregnancy prevention abilities?
Thanks!
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Georgia59
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Posted: 01-08-08 21:12pm
She'll probably be ok because she only
missed one pill. Are there hormones in the
placebo week of ortho? If there are, take
them all. If not, and they really are
placebos, it's ok to start the next pack
whenver.
Personally, I would not have unprotected
sex for a week after I realized I missed
the one pill, because there is a small
chance of getting pregnant. But it's just
a small chance.
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Tylanas
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Posted: 01-08-08 21:50pm
No, there are not hormones in the placebo
week, that's why it's the placebo week.
There are 27 (or close) and 7 of them are
placebos without hormones, and that's the
week you get your period normally. You do
not have to take those placebo pills
actually, since they are just placebos.
