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Q: Patch Mistake ... safe ?

asked by: alli6son on October 28th, 2006

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Normally I change my patch every friday at 3:30 pm. My third patch, I forgot to take off and took it off saturday morning instead. Then I had my patch-free week, and forgot to put the new one on on friday at 3:30. I remembered and put it on saturday morning. Can I have sex?

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Kia

replied on October 29th, 2006

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If you read the leaflet it will give you the answer to this.

orthoevra.Com wrote:

if you forget to take your patch off during week 4:

take the patch off as soon as you rememberq start your next cycle on your normal patch change day
no backup contraception is needed
under no circumstances should there be more than a 7-day, patch-free interval between cycles. The risk of ovulation increases with each day after the recommended "patch-free" week. If there are more than 7 patch-free days, you may not be protected from pregnancy and backup contraception, such as condoms, spermicide, or a diaphragm, must be used for 1 week

they will even send you email reminders to change your patch!

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