Anytime you have unprotected sex and miss several pills in-a-row, your chances of pregnancy increase significantly. Your pills are 99% effective at preventing pregnancy when taken consistently and correctly; when you miss several pills, this effectiveness rate decreases.
Each cycle is counted as its own separate cycle each month, and it is irrelevant if you have taken the pill previously for 3 months or 10 years. If you miss pills during one cycle, that one cycle you can ovulate, and if you have unprotected sex, the sperm can fertilize an egg. It only takes one time. Some women need to be off of birth control for a month just to know when their normal period begins (women do not have periods when taking birth control pills, the bleeding you experience is actually "withdrawal bleeding"); it is not a requirement to be off of birth control in order to become pregnant. You can get pregnant "quick" with just one instance of unprotected sex and not taking pills (especially missing 3 in-a-row).
Having sex before missing pills also is not a safe choice, as sperm can live inside your body for 3-5 days.
I wish I could offer some reassuring words. Did you make up the pills that you missed? Did you choose to take emergency contraception?
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Anytime you have unprotected sex and miss several pills in-a-row, your chances of pregnancy increase significantly. Your pills are 99% effective at preventing pregnancy when taken consistently and correctly; when you miss several pills, this effectiveness rate decreases.
Each cycle is counted as its own separate cycle each month, and it is irrelevant if you have taken the pill previously for 3 months or 10 years. If you miss pills during one cycle, that one cycle you can ovulate, and if you have unprotected sex, the sperm can fertilize an egg. It only takes one time. Some women need to be off of birth control for a month just to know when their normal period begins (women do not have periods when taking birth control pills, the bleeding you experience is actually "withdrawal bleeding"); it is not a requirement to be off of birth control in order to become pregnant. You can get pregnant "quick" with just one instance of unprotected sex and not taking pills (especially missing 3 in-a-row).
Having sex before missing pills also is not a safe choice, as sperm can live inside your body for 3-5 days.
I wish I could offer some reassuring words. Did you make up the pills that you missed? Did you choose to take emergency contraception?
September 23, 2010 - 12:16pmThis Comment
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