Missed two pills in first week - uh-oh

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Registered: 03-29-2003
Missed two pills in first week - uh-oh
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Tue, 08-10-2004 - 11:25pm
Dopey me went away on vacation without my pills. In my first week I missed pills #5 & 6. Got home early on day #7 and took both #5 & 6. Later that night at my regular time I took pill #7 and am now back on track, now in week #2, pill #3. Do I need to use an alternate form of birth control at this point?
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 08-11-2004 - 7:47am
YES!!! Taking the missed pills is not enough, as you'll see if you read your patient information that comes with each pack of pills, you MUST use backup until you've taken at least seven active pills on time. And if you miss one of those, you get to start counting again. ;) When you're figuring out what backup to use, make sure it's backup that you'd use if you weren't taking the pill at all--it's easy to get complacent when you're on the pill, but missed pills are the leading cause of pill pregnancies.

Be careful! Accidents happen, just make sure that forgetting your pills was the only one. ;) Good luck!

Judie
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