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mara11
Member # 91312
posted 03-29-2012 01:01 PM
I just want to know what a missed pill is considered and if will have an effect on my period this month.. I didnt get to start my pill pack on the right day it was a day later and i took 2.. is that considered missing a pill and is there anything that could be messed up from this happening?
Heather
Member # 3
posted 03-29-2012 01:27 PM
Yes, that is a missed pill, and in the future that is THE pill you most want to avoid missing, that first pill of the pack: it's the one that's mostly likely to impact your pill's effectiveness when missed for the rest of the cycle. Any missed or late pill can have that impact, but that first one is the most important to be sure to never miss or take late. When a combined pill is more than 12 hours late, it's late: more than 24 hours and it's missed. This cycle, you'll want to back up your pill with a second method for at least the first week if you're sexually active. [ 03-29-2012, 01:40 PM: Message edited by: Heather ]
mara11
Member # 91312
posted 03-30-2012 08:52 AM
ok well im not .. we havent ever had direct contact.. so i should expect my period around the same time?
Robin Lee
Member # 90293
posted 03-30-2012 02:57 PM
No, it won't effect when your period comes. When you're on the Pill, that bleeding is actually called a withdrawal bleed. It happens when you stop taking the hormonal pills and either don't take anything for a week or take the placebo pills. Your body isn't getting the hormones during that week,so its able to shed the uterine lining. What you described, while it won't give you full birth control coverage as Heather explained, won't affect when this withdrawal bleed arrives.
mara11
Member # 91312
posted 04-01-2012 01:10 PM
ok well thats good!.. another question i have is if the placebo pills do anything at all? i am on sprintec
Stephanie_1
Member # 36725
posted 04-01-2012 01:25 PM
If you have 28 pills (some have 21, in which case you don't take any pills for 7 days) then they are sugar pills simply to remind you when yo begin your next pack. They don't have any function besides that. Some people choose not to take them and that's fine too - just make sure you're being careful about counting days and starting your next pack on time then.
mara11
Member # 91312
posted 04-01-2012 02:38 PM
ok will do .. also is it normal that my withdrawl bleed doesnt come on the first day of my placebo pills? mine always comes on the 2nd 3rd or 4th day
Robin Lee
Member # 90293
posted 04-01-2012 08:08 PM
Yes, that's perfectly okay for it to come a few days after you start the placebo pills. It's like that for many people.
mara11
Member # 91312
posted 04-02-2012 09:06 AM
ok good deal. I am really worried about this withdrawl bleed and it should be here any day so i guess i just want to talk to yall until it comes.. my boyfriend and i had not done any type of anything sexual in a while and this past month because i freak out about things so bad. This past month I decided i thought i was ready and wouldnt over react about a preganancy risk that is impossible but, on the last day of my placebo pills we ended up at a party, drank a little and spent the night at a friends house instead of driving home after drinking. that night was the first time i had given him oral sex. I know that nothing happened though like direct genital contact or him ejaculating on or near me but its all i can think about. i just feel like maybe we forgot something that happened, though my boyfriend didnt drink hardly anything and is 100% sure that this withdrawl bleed will come and that we didnt forget anything or let anything happen that could make me have a pregnancy risk. I trust him but i just think im being really hard on myself i guess and keep making up things in my head that maybe could have happened
Stephanie_1
Member # 36725
posted 04-02-2012 07:45 PM
You know, it's sounding like you're remembering what happened pretty well, and as you said he didn't drink much and remembers everything too, so there's really no reason to psych yourself out here. Also, have you talked to anyone about this anxiety? If not, it may be helpful to think about doing so.
mara11
Member # 91312
posted 04-03-2012 02:55 AM
yea youre very right its just that this whole month ive told mself that after this bleed itll be ok. No i havent talked to anyone but we decided that i again am not ready for this kind of sexual activity and we wont be doing anything this coming month. I just wish my withdrawl bleed would happen so i can move on.
Stephanie_1
Member # 36725
posted 04-03-2012 08:58 PM
I'd still say, ready or not, it may be sage for you to think about talking to someone about the anxiety you have around this. But that's something you'll have to decide on if you need or want yourself. Glad that you're on the same page together though.