Can I get PREGNANT?? On PATCH!!!

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Registered: 05-11-2004
Can I get PREGNANT?? On PATCH!!!
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Fri, 08-27-2004 - 9:04am
Hi everyone I've posted here alot ever since i first started thinking of getting the patch like months ago. Well I'm on my off week of the second month. So far only breast tenderness and some moodiness but only alittle bit. My first period on the patch was definitely lighter...now i'm on my first day of my period. I'm really scared because my boyfriend has only come in me like 4 times in the past month and I was already on birth control for a month when he did this. The thing is people are telling me that I can still be pregnant even if I get my period and am on bc. Is this true??? I'm real scared because I dont wanna be pregnant im graduating college next spring and can't handle a baby in my life, I'm not ready for one right that's why i'm on bc. please someone help give me some insight.

Thank You
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Registered: 12-30-2003
Fri, 08-27-2004 - 9:28am
Hi portugueseangel, welcome back!

Sweetie, your friends are messing with your head. Can it happen? Perhaps, but it’s very, very unlikely. No method of contraception is 100% effective but if used correctly the patch is 99.7% effective so you are quite safe. See: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/bc/cchoices4.html#PATCH Don’t let your friends freak you out, ok?

Hugs,

      Jill