Need EMERGENCY advice---in tears
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| Wed, 08-11-2004 - 6:28pm |
This is my first time posting anything on this board although I find all advice given very thoughtful and informative. Anyways I am in a bit of a dilemma and I really need some help. Well I have been on Alesse for a little over a year now and have been faithful to a tee with taking it up until this cycle. Well I went away for the weekend to visit my boyfirend and inadvertently forgot my pills, so I did not start on my normal Sunday start (at 4pm) and instead started on Monday (at 4 pm). So I was a whole day late with beginning my new pack of pills which I know (from this board) is the WORST time to miss a pill. Anyways I had unprotected sex with my bf on Saturday and Sunday night/early Monday morning(midnight) because we were kind of drunk and my inhibitions went out the door unfortunately. Sigh, I dont knwo what to do. I really dont have a way to get EC and dont even know how effective it would be now on Wednesday. I am only 19 and live at home and am scared to death of getting pregnant, every time I think about it, I burst into tears. I've been thinking about just using my pack of birth control as EC since I heard I could take 10 pills over 12 hours as an equivalent to EC but then I would be missing a whole lot of pills and Alesse is expensive as it is. Anyway I just wanted to know how likely it is that I will be pregnant because of the sex I had this past weekend; I knwo that my risk of getting pregnant is a lot greater than it would normally be had I taken my pills correctly but I'm just wondering in what ballpark the chances of me getting pregant is, very likely/likely/not very likely. PLEASE HELP, thanks in advance
Jaime

Jaime
I agree with Dani that if your last IC with your BF was on Sunday night his sperm would probably be dead by the time you ovulate, if you ovulate. Sperm can live only a few hours in unfertile conditions and it would probably take several days for you to become fertile. That is why I think you are probably ok. But, there are no guarantees. If your last IC was Sunday night you are at about the 72 hour point after which EC becomes less effective.
If you do decide to use Aleese as EC as the EC website: http://ec.princeton.edu/ says to do and you are without pills for the last 10 days of your regular pill cycle, your period should arrive a day or two after your last active pills. When you begin your next pack of pills I would use back-up for the first 7 days of correct pill usage while your hormonal protection is being reestablished. You'll let us know how you're doing, right?
(((Hugs!)))
Jill
Jaime
If you doubled up and took your sunday and monday pills together on Monday when you remembered, that may be what started your spotting. If you started spotting on monday I wouldn't think it likely (if you will ovulate at all) that you ovulated that soon. EC is only somewhat effective on the 4th and 5th days. I'm glad that you are going to get to see your doctor. Let us know what s/he says. I know it's difficult but try not to worry you can make yourself sick and worrying never helps.
Hugs,
Jill
Jaime
Honey, I'd stop worrying about the money. Many of us have been broke college students, but you don't want to tack "single mom" on top of broke college student, do you? And how hard would that be to explain to your parents? You may be able to get EC or another refill of Alesse with a phone call (1-800-not-2-late can tell you where you can get it), you probably don't need an actual visit to the gyn, but if you do you do. That's MINOR when you compare it with possibly being pregnant at a time in your life when you're not prepared for it. And praying won't make it not happen, I'm afraid.
Even though it seems the risk may be low, we've said on this board for a long time, though not recently, it's better safe than pregnant. And any time you screw up your pills, whether it's not taking them or taking too many (and in the case of EC), that can definitely cause some irregular bleeding--it's a response to the hormonal fluctuation and not necessarily an indicator of anything else.
Good luck, make a phone call if need be!
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