Contraceptive Pill
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| Thu, 04-13-2006 - 7:37pm |
I'm on the combined pill. I take 21 contraceptives, then 7 placebos. I recently went away for the weekend and accidentally took a new sheet of pills instead of the ones I was working through. So when I came home, I found that I'd accidentally taken 2 more of the contraceptive pill instead of the placebo I was supposed to be taking.
Will this affect my system? What about next month...I now have 2 pills missing from my next new month's sheet of contraception. If I were to have sex with my boyfriend, I'd be using condoms anyway. So, will it matter if i miss those 2 pills out and just start off from the third day as if nothing happened. Will missing those two pills affect my entire system - ie will i be more at risk getting pregnant the whole month or just for the first week?
Any advice would help, thank you!

Taking the extra active pills (so 23 actives) shouldn't affect anything down the road, women take more than 21 active pills all the time on purpose!