Yeast infection and a missed pill?
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Yeast infection and a missed pill?
| Sun, 04-18-2004 - 1:03am |
Hi guys!
I ended up taking my 4th active pill late during this month's pack, but my fiance and I have not had sex since the day I took my 2nd active pill. However, I think I have a yeast infection. I started symptoms about 2 days ago (today I am taking my 9th active pill.) I have read that yeast infections can be a sign of pregnancy. Is this a possibility, or could just taking the pill late trigger a yeast infection? Or maybe something else caused it...I don't know. I am just kind of worried. Any light shed on this would be helpful!!! Thanks in advance!!
I ended up taking my 4th active pill late during this month's pack, but my fiance and I have not had sex since the day I took my 2nd active pill. However, I think I have a yeast infection. I started symptoms about 2 days ago (today I am taking my 9th active pill.) I have read that yeast infections can be a sign of pregnancy. Is this a possibility, or could just taking the pill late trigger a yeast infection? Or maybe something else caused it...I don't know. I am just kind of worried. Any light shed on this would be helpful!!! Thanks in advance!!


No method of contraception is 100% effective except abstinence. However, if you have been taking your pills correctly: on time (+/-2 hours of your normal pill-time) haven’t been sick and vomited or had diarrhea within 2 hours after taking your pill and haven’t been taking medicines or supplements that can reduce the effectiveness of your pills, then you should be fine. Oral contraceptives can contribute to yeast infections in some women. A number of things can cause the ph of your vagina to change and bring on a YI but I don’t think taking a pill late had anything to do with it. I hope you are feeling better soon.
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Jill
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Good luck
Jill
Relax! This is how it works: say you took a pill late, and for some freak reason, it caused you to ovulate (which it probably did NOT - you do know that the function of the Pill is to suppress ovulation, right?). You probably wouldn't ovulate the same exact DAY you took the late Pill, especially if the Pill was only a few hours late (you don't tell us how late it was). Maybe you ovulate the day after, say. So that's 3 days after having IC that you ovulated. The sperm would have to be alive for three days inside you, then make its way to the egg. Now not only is it unlikely that the sperm could live inside you for that long, it's extremely unlikely that you ovulated at all! And even if both of those things do happen, your cervical mucous has thickened (a "back-up" effect of the Pill, you could say) to make it hard for the sperm to get to the egg. PLUS, another effect of the Pill is to make conditions in your uterus hostile to a fertilized egg anyway, and it might not even be able to implant. So I'd say your chances of pregnancy are pretty slim. Of course, as Jill said, nothing is 100%, but I certainly wouldn't stress out over this until I missed a period (which I'm betting you don't do).
I definitely wouldn't take a sudden YI to be a sign of pregnancy. I have one too, actually, and it's just my body telling me to eat more balanced food! YI's are brought on MUCH more frequently by other things, including birth control pills, than pregnancy.
Hope you feel better about this!
Caitlin
SARA