ask: if you miss 2 birth control pills during week 2 and have sex on those days can you get pregnant?
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April 21, 2009 - 2:27pm
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I did take the two pills for the two days after to make up for it but i just looked it up and found out those were the days i was ovulating.
April 21, 2009 - 2:29pmThis Comment
i had unprotected sex and got ejaculated in 4 times the day that my period ended. I didn't take my first yellow pill though. I have horrible cramps, pain, and swelling in my stomach. Could i be pregnant or is something else wrong?
April 19, 2010 - 9:45amHi Tasha
Thanks for your question! Did you make up your first pill? If you did, you should be ok. When did you resume taking your pills?
Also, did you use a condom? You may have an infection that needs to be seen to. Can you update us a little?
April 19, 2010 - 1:48pmI used no condom and i did not take my pill. I lost the pill for that i was supposed to take. But i started taking my pills again like two or three days later, when i got home. I don't really know what to do with the whole thing. I can't talk to my mom about it because she will go off on me. That is why i am asking you guys.
April 20, 2010 - 9:12amif you have unprotected sex 2 days after i started taking birth control pills can i still get pregnant?i started taking them the 4th day of my period.
December 31, 2010 - 2:00amHi idk1314,
January 4, 2011 - 8:29amAs stated in the information packet that came with your pills, when you are a first time starter of the pill, you need to take it for several days before you are fully covered to the 99% effectiveness rate it promises. So you need to use a backup method for generally the first week you are on it. However, if you previously were on the pill, just finished your "off" week (when you had your period), and started a new pack, you should be fine. Hope that makes sense.
Hi,
There is a chance of being pregnant, but how much of a chance (most likely slight) depends on a few other factors.
The summary (please read my assumptions below): missing pills during Week 1 and Week 3 are riskiest for pregnancy, and missing 3 pills also seems to be riskiest for pregnancy. What type of pills are you taking (we can look up the instruction sheet that comes with your specific brand of pills, to see what the dosage is and know more information. It's best to keep one of these handy!)
First of all:
How long ago did you have unprotected sex? If it has been withing the last 72 hours, you can use emergency contraception.
The greatest chance of pregnancy is when you miss a pill at the beginning or end of the "active pills" (not the hormone-free pills), which would be the 1st week and 3rd week, assuming 4th week is hormone-free pills. This is because the hormone-free interval has been extended. Does that make sense? It also depends how long you've been taking birth control (assuming this is not your first-ever pack?), and I am assuming you are talking about missing pills that are the 28-day, combined oral contraceptives?
You can also call your OB/GYN office, and confirm this information with a nurse, which I would highly recommend (especially if unprotected sex has been within the past 72 hours).
Here are a few helpful university websites that answer this question in more detail:
April 21, 2009 - 2:41pmhttp://healthcenter.ucdavis.edu/topics/contraception/pill-missed.html
http://ec.princeton.edu/questions/missedocs.html
I'm on Kariva. I missed the last pill of week 1 and the first 2 of week 2 & had unprotected sex on the first 2 days of week 2. I have some spot bleeding, but it's not much at all.
I've been on birth control for about a year and a half, give or take.
September 28, 2009 - 7:09pmi missed my last 3 pills of the last active week on the pack (friday, saturday, and sunday), it was my first pack ever of birthcontrol. i had unprotected sex on that sunday but the thing is a few hours later i got my "period" still. am i safe for the fact that i got it the same day??
August 16, 2010 - 7:41ami need answers to my questions please help..
okay heres my situation ive been on dianne since august 2010 and my last period was on november 8, 201o i have a 5 days period so it stopped on 13th. so supposedly i have a 7 day break but then i had a phone call from my bf that he’ll be home by the weekend so i started my new pack of dianne on wednesday 17th of november. then the following week i got hospitalized and missed 5 pills consecutively from 26th to 30. then i resumed on the 1st of december because ive read from here to continue taking the pills and disregard the missed ones. but after resuming taking pills i started to bleed and now its my 5th day, so i have 2 more pills to go and after that i will start my new pack immediately after finishing.so thats my situation
my questions are as follows:
1. is the bleeding that occured to me is a normal monthly period already?(because ive read an article also that if you messed up taking pills you will bleed).
2.will i be safe if i have sex this weekend december 9 (supposedly i have taken already 2 pills on the new pack?)
3. when will my next period occur?(probably)
thank you and i hope my questions will be answered and will be greatly appreciated
December 4, 2010 - 11:26pm