Sex While On My Period & while On the Pill ?

I'm sorry you had bad luck with the doc and planned parenthood. Don't worry - you are still protected against pregnancy in the week you take the inactive pills. You should expect your period soon.

yeah, whenever I call my doctors office they always give me a reallly hard time. They still give me advice, but they are quite rude about it.

I mean like.. they are the one that prescribed the pill to you,
shouldn't they help you out with it just a little?

I'm sorry they did that to you... I called planned parenthood for pill advice once too, and the nurse I got was pretty nice and help soothe my fears rather well.

Sorry they didn't give you the help you needed.

Yes, you are okay. If you are taking the pill correctly then you can have sex without a condom, without pulling out every day of the month and you will be 99% protected against pregnancy.

It does seem counter-intuitive that you would be protected during the pill-free or placebo pill week, but the pills do prevent pregnancy for all 28 days of your cycle, as long as you start the next pack on time too.

There are of course a few things that can reduce birth control's effectiveness, like if you are taking antibiotics or if you vomit before the pill has been absorbed into your system.

like everyone else said, you are fine, youve been taking the pill regularly for a while now so it is totally fine, i find also u can call the pharmacy at the drugstore near you they can also tell you as well, and theyre more ap to answer questions regaurding medicines. i called the pharmacy when i had questions about my birth control. so id try that next time.

It seems odd to me that no one has mentioned that you really shouldn't worry, not just because the pill should protect you throughout your cycle, but also because you are very very very very very unlikely to get pregnant while on your period, even if you aren't on birth control. Your period starts after you've ovulated and the egg hasn't been fertilized, your body releases the blood that was stored up in the lining of the uterus in preparation of a fertilized egg attaching... so in any normal cycle, you do not have an egg available to be fertilized while on your period, nor is your uterus set for it to attach and grow. So unless something realllly strange happened, you wouldn't be able to get pregnant.

And if you're on your period, it won't just stop and you'll be pregnant. When you're on your period is probably the least likely point in your cycle for you to be able to get pregnant. You can't get pregnant every day of the month, with or without birth control.

I'd suggest going to the planned parenthood website and under birth control methods they actually list the not recommended methods like pulling out or charting your cycle. While it's not recommended to just chart your cycle, there is a lot of information there about how your cycle works, when you are and are not able to get pregnant, etc. I'd suggest that every woman have a clear understanding of how this works. It's your body, your cycle, get to know it.

So yeah, the pill when used correctly is 99% effective, and the chances of getting pregnant while on your period are incredibly slim with or without birth control. So, you're fine.