birth control? - Birth Control Message Board

beachybabe · 06-28-2007, 08:00 AM

i've been on birth control pills for two weeks, taking the pill at relatively the same time every night (maybe an hour or two off once or twice)..

since i had sex without any other protection on the night of two weeks of taking it, should i be worried? or would the pill protect me enough by then?

lolly85 · 06-28-2007, 10:24 AM

I don't think you should be worried. How soon you are protected when you start the pill depends on if you started on the first day of your period or the sunday start. If you started on the first day of your period then you are protected right away. If you did the sunday start then you are protected after 7 days. Read the insert that comes with your pill it should tell you how soon you are protected.

BOSTICK12 · 06-28-2007, 01:07 PM

Well if you read directions on all bc, it tells you to be catious upto two to three months

Thisby · 06-28-2007, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by BOSTICK12

Well if you read directions on all bc, it tells you to be catious upto two to three months

Really? Mine have never said that. They have always said 7 days. (And yes, I'm the type to actually read that stuff...)

If you have been taking them correctly, they are working as they should.

FromSqueaky · 06-28-2007, 08:42 PM

Agree with both posts. You are protected the first week if taken the first day of bleeding. If taken the first Sunday after period then you need to use back up for a week. After that week take them every day around the same time with out missing and you will be protected.