Bills haven't come yet!

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Registered: 05-04-2007
Bills haven't come yet!
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Thu, 06-21-2007 - 9:24am

My current prescription plan requires me to use mail order for my BCP. Every month I order my new pack when I start taking the placebo pills and it always arrives in the mail just before I'm supposed to start my new pack.

However this month, my pack is about a week late! I ordered my pills over 2 weeks ago, and they still haven't come yet. Which means I've already missed 4 pills this month! I checked with the prescription service and they were shipped out 2 days ago, and are to arrive in the next 1-5 days! It never takes this long for my pills to arrive and now this throws off my entire cycle!

My BF & I are in 100% agreement that we do not want children so getting busy is off limits until my pills come!

And to make matters worse, we leave for vacation in exactly one month! I would hate to have to worry about having extra protection while we're away, and I know he's not to excited about that idea either!

Even if I start my new pack the day it arrives, will this mean we're not protected against pregnancy next month? This is the worst timing because we're celebrating our anniversary and we DON'T want a permanent souvenir from this trip!

I'm thinking about checking the calendar and seeing which day my cycle will begin based on when I start this new pack. Will it be dangerous to hold off taking the pills to make sure I don't gave my pd. While we're away. If I started on the day I was supposed to then my pd would've began two weeks before we went away! Which means two weeks from now, but if I'm lucky & my prescription is home tonight, I'll get it the day we're supposed to leave! And we didn't spend all that money to just read books and hold hands!!!

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Registered: 07-19-2005
Thu, 06-21-2007 - 10:15am
Contact your insurance company. They might be able to authorize a single pack of pills from a local retail pharmacy to tide you over until the mail order ones come. Or, your doctor may have a sample starter pack she can give you. That way you can start a new pack now, and have 2 weeks of pills under your belt, and thus be fully protected, by the time vacation gets here.


Edited 6/21/2007 10:16 am ET by bagpipe_mouse
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Registered: 12-30-2003
Thu, 06-21-2007 - 11:55am

Hi mira0407, welcome!


      Jill

    

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Registered: 05-04-2007
Thu, 06-21-2007 - 12:44pm

Thank you so much for your advice.

Also, I realized my subject was "Bills" instead of "Pills" guess I should have double checked before I posted.

I've never heard of the "Instead Cups" that's definitely an option

I think what I will do is start my pack as soon as it arrives and then like you suggested, I'll skip the placebo pills and start taking a new pack immediately. I would hate for ant flow to make a surprise visit while we're away, cause my cycle is all thrown off and even if I count the days on the calendar from when I begin, I don't want to risk anything.

Thanks for your help!!!