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megan73 · Sep 13, 2013, 08:51 AM

Okay so I just started taking birth control for a month now. I have missed one pill starting but took it the next day and so on. I also never take it at the same time. Me and my boyfriend had sex and the condom broke 12 hours later we took plan B I had no side effects of it working. Could I be pregnant? Please help me.

smoothy · Sep 13, 2013, 08:55 AM

Sure you could be... no form of birth control is 100% effective... nor is the plan B.

Why aren't you taking your pills the same time every day? Its not hard... you take them with breakfast every morning. Make it a routine.

But until you are late for your period... you aren't going to know... and then you have to wait for another two weeks when you are late... before you can take a test if you want accurate results...

And like the Pill... you can't just take them whenever you think about it... the HPT MUST be done right after you wake up... the FIRST time you pee in the morning... or you have to wait until the next day.

megan73 · Sep 13, 2013, 08:57 AM

I take them at 9:00 every night but I usually forget and take them an hour late or sometimes 2 hours late.

smoothy · Sep 13, 2013, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by megan73

I take them at 9:00 every night but I usually forget and take them an hour late or sometimes 2 hours late.

That's probibly why you forget... most of the women I've dated..,. along with my wife (I'm 52 so you can figure the last 34 years total )... take them in the morning... with breakfast... along with any other medications they take... a morning routine like that is easier to remember than at the end of a long day when you have other things on your mind distracting you.

megan73 · Sep 13, 2013, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by smoothy

Thats probibly why you forget....most of the women I've dated.,..along with my wife (I'm 52 so you can figure the last 34 years total )...take them in the morning...with breakfast...along with any other medications they take....a morning routine like that is easier to remember than at the end of a long day when you have other things on your mind distracting you.

Could I switch to taking them in the morning?

smoothy · Sep 13, 2013, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by megan73

Could I switch to taking them in the morning?

Yeah... But I would treat it like the first month you are on them where they tell you to use another form as well.

I say that out of an overabumndance of caution. As I believe in always erring on the side of caution.

Everyone tends to have a moring routine getting ready... adding something to it is really easy and it becomes part of that routine before anything happens to distract you.

Trust me as I've had to take medications three times a day from time to time... evenings are the easiest to forget. So its not just you.