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I have been sexually active for a few weeks now and I just recently switched my form of birth control from the patch to the pill. I am visiting my boyfriend this weekend and I was wondering if sex would be safe considering I have just recently switched forms? (I was on the pill for a year and then switched to the patch fro three months and now i am back to the pill. I used the patch regularly and I picked up after my period when I would have put a new patch on with the pill.) Should I wait a cycle before having vaginal sex again?
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If you started using your pill the same time you would have started a new patch, then your effectiveness should not have changed any.
Obviously, whether or not you're comfortable using either of those methods without condoms -- both as a backup per pregnancy, but also since the patch nor the pill provides STI protection -- is up to you. But if you were okay using your pill by itself, nothing's changed in terms of switching to the pill the way that you did it.
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As Heather said, since you started using the pill when you would have put on a new patch, you have the protection of the pill.
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