need help on how to start

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Registered: 01-30-2007
need help on how to start
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Wed, 02-14-2007 - 4:40pm

im just nervous. ive read the instructions a dozen tiems but im still unsure. its Alesse 28

i got my period on sunday. should i have started the green pills that day i got my period?
i still can right? ill just start the 4th green pill then keep going on them then ill go to pink and...thats it right?

Edited 2/14/2007 5:53 pm ET by queenchaos16




Edited 2/14/2007 5:58 pm ET by queenchaos16
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Wed, 02-14-2007 - 9:18pm

Hi again queenchaos16, welcome back!


      Jill

    

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Registered: 01-30-2007
Wed, 02-14-2007 - 9:31pm

hmm...so i shuld have started the pink pills as soon as i got my period??

what it i already took a green pill...? cuz i did(just one)...should i just STOP completly and start the pink pills the next time i get my perod?

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Registered: 01-30-2007
Wed, 02-14-2007 - 9:47pm
wiat...it says on the alesse website i can start the pink on the 5th day of my period. can i do that even though i took a green one today? so tomorrows the 5th day and ill start the pink. but i wanna get on this right...should i just wait till my next period and start the pink the first day of my next period?
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Registered: 12-30-2003
Wed, 02-14-2007 - 9:56pm

>>so i shuld have started the pink pills as soon as i got my period??<<


      Jill

    

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Wed, 02-14-2007 - 10:03pm
ok so i would be fine if tomorrow morning i would start the pink pills. but one question, do i take the first sunday pill, or the fifth thursday pill?
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 02-14-2007 - 11:14pm

Take the very first pill! Always start at the beginning of the pack and go all the way through the end, active pills (pink) first and placebo pills (green) last. You'll be one pill short when you get to your placebo week, but that's okay. You need to make sure you take all 21 active pills before any of the placebo pills.

Regardless of what happens with your period (stops, keeps going, starts again in the middle), keep taking one pink pill every day until you have taken all 21 of them.

Make sense? Let us know if you have any more questions! It's really not that hard, you'll get the hang of it once you get started.

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Registered: 12-30-2003
Wed, 02-14-2007 - 11:33pm

>>i would be fine if tomorrow morning i would start the pink pills. but one question, do i take the first sunday pill, or the fifth thursday pill? <<


      Jill