same time every night????? help!

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-07-2004
same time every night????? help!
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Sun, 09-05-2004 - 4:00pm
Hey .... i have a quick question that i've been curious about for some time... Im on Yasmin... and I have yet to skip a pill- im very good about taking it everynight- but... i dont take it at the same time everynight... I'll take it anywhere from 7 o'clock to 1am in the morning. do i need to take the pill at the same time everynight??

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-30-2003
Sun, 09-05-2004 - 4:28pm
Hi justwantaprince, welcome!

You really should be more consistent with your pill time. You are decreasing the effectiveness of your pills by some unknown amount. If your normal time is 7:00 PM then 1:00 AM is getting close to being a miss, not a good thing. This board considers on-time to be +/-2 hours of your regular pill time. If you can't manage that with your 7:00 PM time then if I were you I'd change my pill time to one where I could be more consistent. Or, you might want to consider switching to a lower maintenance method like the ring, NuvaRing http://www.nuvaring.com/Consumer/index.asp or the patch, Ortho Evra. http://www.orthoevra.com/ If you haven’t already seen it, read “Taking your pills correctly” in the FAQs at the top of the board. Let us know what you decide, ok?

Good luck,

      Jill