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| Tue, 09-28-2004 - 5:45pm |
How possible is it to change the time that I take my pill? The time that I am currently taking it isn't working out as well as I'd hoped and I've taken a few of them latter than I should have. After I finish this pack is it possible to start the next pack at a different time? How would I go about doing this?
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As far as I know, you can change the time you take your pill before you start the new pack, but...you have to be careful how you do it, you cannot just switch times. Here is how I was told to do it. Take a pill at the normal time, say 10pm. The next day, take the pill 2 or 3 hours earlier, say 7 or 8pm. Continue taking these small steps until you reach the time you want to take the pill. You generally have about a 3 hour window of effectivness on bc pills. Hope this helps! Good luck!
If you want to move your pill time earlier, say it's 6pm now and you want it to be noon. When you start the next pack, you'd start it at noon instead of 6pm on the same day you'd normally start, just six hours earlier.
If you wanted to go from 6pm to midnight, however, it's a little more difficult. As far as how much you can move a pill time, different people have different ideas, but I would probably do one hour at a time, no more than two. So you'd start your pack at 6pm tonight, take tomorrow's pill at 7pm, the next day's pill at 8pm, and so on until you got to midnight. Or you can make the whole time jump at once and use backup protection or don't have sex for the first seven days of the pack (assuming you take all seven pills on time).
Make sense?
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