Ovral (Morning After Pill)

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-26-2003
Ovral (Morning After Pill)
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Mon, 03-15-2004 - 11:22am
I took my first dose of ovral at 230pm but for my 2nd dose i accidently slept and took it at 530 in the morning, will this cause a big difference?
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-30-2003
Mon, 03-15-2004 - 12:13pm
Hi peachydaisy, welcome!

Ovral is a combined oral contraceptive that has a high dose (50 mcg) of estrogen. It can be used as a morning-after-pill by taking 2 pills within 72 hours of IC and 2 more 12 hours later. If I were you I’d ask the practitioner who gave you the pills if s/he thinks taking the second dose 3 hours late will decrease their effectiveness and what s/he recommends. It might depend to some extent on how soon after IC you took the first pills. Let us know how you're doing, ok?

Good luck.

      Jill