If you take your last pill on thursday, your next pack should be started on Friday. Taking it on Thursday would be doubling up, which you don't want to do.
If you have been taking your birth control pills EXACTLY as prescribed, there should be no need to worry. Birth control pills are highly effective, 99.9% to be exact but NOTHING is 100% guaranteed. The majority of the time, when people end up pregnant while on the pill, it is because somewhere along the line they either missed a pill entirely, forgot one then doubled up, etc. Setting up a reminder on your phone or computer at the same time every day can help maintain the hormone levels from the pill at a constant rate.
Every once in a while there will be that lucky woman who did everything right and still managed to beat the pill and get pregnant. But this isn't reason to worry about having sex and getting pregnant. After all, the reason why you're taking the pill is to avoid the worrying, right?
Good Luck fisk. Continue to take your pills and no worries!
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Hi fisk-- thank you for posting your question.
If you take your last pill on thursday, your next pack should be started on Friday. Taking it on Thursday would be doubling up, which you don't want to do.
If you have been taking your birth control pills EXACTLY as prescribed, there should be no need to worry. Birth control pills are highly effective, 99.9% to be exact but NOTHING is 100% guaranteed. The majority of the time, when people end up pregnant while on the pill, it is because somewhere along the line they either missed a pill entirely, forgot one then doubled up, etc. Setting up a reminder on your phone or computer at the same time every day can help maintain the hormone levels from the pill at a constant rate.
Every once in a while there will be that lucky woman who did everything right and still managed to beat the pill and get pregnant. But this isn't reason to worry about having sex and getting pregnant. After all, the reason why you're taking the pill is to avoid the worrying, right?
Good Luck fisk. Continue to take your pills and no worries!
September 8, 2009 - 5:27amThis Comment
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