Welcome to EmpowHer, and thank you for your question. Let's see what we can figure out.
I actually see several worrisome signs here that yes, you could have become pregnant. Let me take them one at a time:
When you miss two or three pills, you are in effect unprotected. Your body can ovulate and if it does and you have unprotected sex, that egg can be fertilized and you can be pregnant. So that's worry No. 1.
Worry No. 2 is this: Your two times of unprotected sex (especially the first, when he ejaculated) would have been on the 10th and 12th days of your cycle. That falls right around the time your body would ovulate on its own. (It would be less worrisome if, for instance, the days of unprotected sex had been either very early or very late in your pill pack).
Worry No. 3 is this: Your antibiotics. Antibiotics do, as you said, lessen the effectiveness of birth control pills. So this is working against you as well.
On the good side: Many times when women WANT to get pregnant and start taking the pill, it takes their bodies a month or two to start ovulating on their own again. And even when they have sex at the perfect time for ovulation, they may not become pregnant for several months. And that's without any birth control at all. So even though your chances are higher, it's by no means certain that it would have happened.
If this ever happens again, where you miss a pill or two and have unprotected sex, you can go to the pharmacy within 72 hours (3 days) and get Plan B, the morning-after birth control pill. Unfortunately, it's too late to go that route this cycle.
Does this information help? After you missed the pills, did you try to make them up or start a new pack?
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Hi, Sarfis,
Welcome to EmpowHer, and thank you for your question. Let's see what we can figure out.
I actually see several worrisome signs here that yes, you could have become pregnant. Let me take them one at a time:
When you miss two or three pills, you are in effect unprotected. Your body can ovulate and if it does and you have unprotected sex, that egg can be fertilized and you can be pregnant. So that's worry No. 1.
Worry No. 2 is this: Your two times of unprotected sex (especially the first, when he ejaculated) would have been on the 10th and 12th days of your cycle. That falls right around the time your body would ovulate on its own. (It would be less worrisome if, for instance, the days of unprotected sex had been either very early or very late in your pill pack).
Worry No. 3 is this: Your antibiotics. Antibiotics do, as you said, lessen the effectiveness of birth control pills. So this is working against you as well.
On the good side: Many times when women WANT to get pregnant and start taking the pill, it takes their bodies a month or two to start ovulating on their own again. And even when they have sex at the perfect time for ovulation, they may not become pregnant for several months. And that's without any birth control at all. So even though your chances are higher, it's by no means certain that it would have happened.
If this ever happens again, where you miss a pill or two and have unprotected sex, you can go to the pharmacy within 72 hours (3 days) and get Plan B, the morning-after birth control pill. Unfortunately, it's too late to go that route this cycle.
Does this information help? After you missed the pills, did you try to make them up or start a new pack?
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