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Q: Did I Mess Up On Pills?
asked by: Sweetpgrl8 on March 24th, 2005
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I started taking my b/c pills on sunday like my doctor said. Now the instructions say take them the sunday after your period, but I took them 2 sunday's after my period. Will that have an effect? Please let me know as I have not gotten my period yet, and am a little concerned. :?
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honeyj
replied on March 24th, 2005
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Well, i've done a bunch of research on pills, since I made a mistake of my own! (see my post under yours...)

from what I can gather, if you start two sundays after your period your body has more than likely ovulated. Supposedly once you take pills 7 days in a row your body doesn't ovulate, so if you had unprotected sex before that i'd be slightly concerned about pregnancy. How far are you now? Did you miss a period or anything??

(this is only my opinion though. )
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Sweetpgrl8
replied on March 24th, 2005
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I had protected sex up to 1 day until before I took the pill. So, yes I had unprotected sex on saturday.
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honeyj
replied on March 24th, 2005
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When did your period start? And when did you start taking the pill? How many days did you take it before unprotected sex?
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Sweetpgrl8
replied on March 25th, 2005
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Ok, my last period was february 13th. I started taking my pills on february 27th, and had unprotected sex february 26th. I have not had my period since the 13th of feb.
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starshyne530
replied on March 25th, 2005
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To answer your question, yes you messed up. You are supposed to start the sunday after your period starts... If you got your period on a tuesday, you wait until that sunday to take your first pill... If your period started on sunday thats when you start your pills. Pretty simple really, the instructions should have been given to you by your doctor and they're in the little packet you get with the pills. However, what's done is done, so what you should do is go get a pregnancy test if you dont get your period when you finish up this first month.

P.S. You're supposed to use a back-up form of birth control (like condoms) for the first 1-3 months of using the pill. If you did use condoms or some other alternative form of birth control (not pulling out, because that doesn't work) then you might be a-ok! :p at this point it's just a waiting game! Hope everything works out.
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sari123
replied on May 26th, 2009
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messed up on pills
look, ive been on microgestin b/c pills for a year now, last packet that i finished was in late march..early april, but i finished missing 2 pills. so i messed up on the 2 last days on taking the pill. its may 25, i havent gotten my period yet. im worried. is that normal? is it becuz i messed up onlike the last two pills on the b/c?
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