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The thread about conceiving while on BC just popped back up and it got me thinking. A lot of people mentioned that they are perfect when taking bc... like setting a phone alarm for it. I am NOT. Never have been. I always take my pill right before I go to bed and I almost never forget (like maybe one time/year do I some how forget)... but I go to bed at totally different times every night. Usually its around 11-12 but sometimes its 9 and sometimes its 2. I've never really worried about it and so far no babies!
Just curious if most people took their bc (be it pills or patches or what-have-you) EXACTLY as you're supposed to? Or if being a little lax is the norm? And how has that worked out for you?
I have an alarm set on my phone, because I am forgetful. I take it within an hour, either before or after, the alarm goes off. That's about as close to perfect as I can get! :)
9:00 pm on the dot most nights. Sometimes I'm 5-10 minutes late or a few minutes early, but I've gotten really good at knowing exactly when to take it. I've been on the pill FOREVER, though.
I was pretty lax with using the ring... just as long as I took it out & put in the "day" I was supposed to.... just couldn't keep up with the exact time. lol
We use condoms, so we're 100% perfect with it. :)
When I was using BC I would just take it sometime during the day....I was severely overweight though, so wasn't too concerned.
I use to use NuvaRing so you put it in and forgot about it for 3 weeks so no need to remember anything. That was the main reason for switching to something like that because I'm horrible with taking pills.
We always use a condom no matter what, but I'm not on the Pill. That's why we ALWAYS use a condom, even when we're just messing around.
For you ladies that are on the Pill, please, please make sure you use it as directed if it would be a disaster for you to get pregnant.
My cousin is in COLLEGE and just told me she's pregnant. She took two of her roommate's birth control pills and thought it would act as a "morning-after pill." There's no excuse to be that uneducated about BC at that age. PLEASE BE SMART!
@MrsCoachBtoBee: Same here. My alarm goes off at 7am and I take it between 6-8am, but always within one hour of the previous day (so if I take it at 6am on Wednesday, I don't take it any later than 7am on Thursday). I also stay consistent when traveling across time zones. I either set an alarm for '7am' normal time or plan ahead and a week before the trip I shift the schedule so I end up taking it at '7am-destination time'.
I'm pretty paranoid, I guess, and I'd rather be safe than sorry!
I use an alarm every day. I also compensate for time zones when traveling. We now use a spermicidal film backup every single time as well (I got pregnant taking the pill perfectly so now I am on a higher dose pill + we use backup).
I use the ring and I've been told by multiple doctors that they actually contain enough hormones for 4 weeks (if you read the insert carefully it says that too even though it says to take out every 3 weeks). So about 2/3 or 3/4 of the time I leave it in for 4 weeks, then switch. The months I do skip a week and get my period, sometimes I go 3 weeks + period week w/o ring, other times 4 weeks + period. I'm definitely not 100% perfect by the book, but I'm normally well within keeping the hormones where they should be... once or twice I've messed up. When that happens I use backup or abstain for a week or so.
I've never had a scare either on the ring or on the pill (which I took at about but not exactly the same time every day).
@CorgiTales: wowzers, i could have written that myself!! I am the same, i take it at bedtime, which normally ranges from 9 to 1 or 2am. twice this year I've forgotten for 2 days at the beginning of a pill cycle and had to take 3 pills at once. I KNOW that i am risky in my behaviour, but when i tell my fiance if i've been "bad", he usually says risk it and i agree - being preggers right now wouldn't be the most convenient thing in the world, but it certainly wouldn't be devastating either. We're stable and happy. I certainly consider myself more on the side of trying to avoid pregnancy, but its not an "at all costs" situation at the moment. 2 years ago, i had the phone alarm, never missed a pill, and we would use back up if i was sick or on antibiotics. Nowadays, we're a bit lazier.
I take my pill at roughly the same time every morning. Not on the dot, but within an hour. I've never had a scare. (knock on wood!)
@brideatbeach: That's so depressing!! Sounds like someone slept through sex ed. (Or had abstinence-only sex education, don't even get me started.)
@mightywombat: I'm a high school teacher, and I see so many girls wind up pregnant out of pure ignorance each year. I hate that attitude that if we don't talk about it, they just won't do it. Hardly!
Sorry, not trying to threadjack... :)
@brideatbeach: That's some scary shit. Not to mention how HORRIFICALLY sick you get if you double-dose...I've had to do it a few times (my old pharmacy was fail at getting my Rx filled on time), and it's awful.
@Mrs Grape: Oh, believe me, I found myself yelling at her. She said they had abstinence-only education at her school and she was always too embarrassed to ask anyone.
Hello? Google at least?! Ugh she's such a smart girl in other aspects of her life, so it was really frustrating to her this from her of all people.
BE CAREFUL!!!!!!!!
I got kinda of lazy about it and missed two pills in one week (one on a sunday and one on friday). I did make them up the next day but the damage was done.
I was in college and my life would never be the same.
You guys all know Little A, right?
And might I add, the morning after pill is not 100% effective either.
You guys know little A, right?
Just for the record... I've been on bc for 10 years and when it would've been a "big deal" for me to get pregnant (i.e. before i was done with school and with my dh) i always backed up w/ condoms too to be sure.
i guess since then we figure if it happens it isn't the end of the world. but hopefully i'm taking it well enough that i won't get pregnant until we're ready.
Before we were TTC, we did natural family planning, so we had to use condoms on our fertile times or the whole method would go out the window.
From what I understand, even missing one pill will not cause pregnancy, so I wouldn't stress about setting an alarm for it unless you would forget them all the time.
@brideatbeach: Good god, she's like a walking PSA for why abstinence-only is not only not effective, it's kind of damaging. I can't imagine being raised--and TAUGHT--in an environment so restrictive that I felt embarrassed to ask basic questions. That just makes me sad.
I took my Yaz pretty religiously, same time every day etc...But I will never go back on BC, bc we've been TTC and it's SO hard - you can REALLY only get PG about 3 days a month! So I wish I would have saved my $30 a month for 14 years and just abstained those 3 days, and then bought shoes instead. BC is worthless if you just learn how your body works...
And just to note - It is HELL to come off BC! Your body turns into a Hormone Hurricane! NEVER AGAIN.
@brideatbeach: @Mrs Grape: I was told by my gyno that taking four of my regular birth control pills is as effective as a morning after pill. Depending on the amount of progestin in the pill you take you could need up to 5- or as little as 2- pills for it to be effective. Even the morning after pill isn't 100% effective.
I take my pill at lunch because it can make me queasy taking it without food. Lunch can vary from 11:30am to 3pm on weekends.
Edit: To clarify my first statment, you need to take that dosage of pills twice, the same way you'd take a morning after pill, 12 hours apart.
The morning after pill won't stop a pregnancy that's already happened, sooooo......yeah.
I am very bad at taking my pill on time. I've been on it for just over 10 years and at the beginning I used to just be plain forgetful so I made sure to double up on protection. Now? I am still plain forgetful but I don't freak out. In the almost 4 years I've been with FI we've never had a real 'scare'. At this point if I got pregnant I wouldn't really mind anyway which is probably why I'm not really careful about when I take my pill.
I have an alarm and keep my BC in my purse so it's with me regardless of where I am. I take it at 9:30pm exactly every night, just pop my pill when the alarm goes off. :)
I have a phone alarm set, but I'll shut it off and then 2 hours later I'll be like "OH SHIT! NEED TO TAKE MY MEDS!" It's funny because I do it pretty much all the time.
I take mine in the AM when I wake up. I'm usually pretty good but there have been times when I missed a day or do and ended up "double dosing". Going off them once this month's pack runs out. Amen to that.
I take my pill everyday, I have been an hour off here or there but I never miss one.I am just amazed at how uneducated some young women are these days. I was in line picking up a perscription and the girl behind me was on the phone talking about how she was picking up the morning after pill because she uses that as birth control. I wanted to say something so bad.
I'm not a perfect user by any means, as I occasionally miss one every couple of weeks. I just take it as soon as I realize and while there has been quite many scares (granted I'm both paranoid and very irregular normally) theres been no baby yet.
When DH and I (BF at the time) first started having sex and I got on the pill for the first time, I was perfect. We were still in school and pregnancy would have put us in a difficult spot. I set an alarm on my phone for 10pm each night and took my pill religiously when the alarm went off. We also always used condoms. We'd have had to have been really unlucky if we'd somehow gotten pregnent.
Now that we're married and completely capable of having a child and being comfortable, my pill is our only BC and I no longer use an alarm. I just take my pill before I go to bed (so within a 3 hour window each evening).
I'm definitely not the best-- I take it at night... typically between 7-11, after dinner but before bedtime. I rarely miss a pill altogether, but sometimes it does make me nervous. I've been on the pill for 8ish years and have never really used a backup method (he "pulls out," but I think that just makes him feel better.) We've finally made it, though, to the point that if we did get pregnant, our first reaction would be joy instead "Oh dear god, how are we gonna live?!"
I was on the pill for 7 years, and started getting pretty forgetful at times. SO, I switched to the ring. Its so easy, and I change it the same time every month. I am thinking about switching to the IUD though
I was bad at taking the pills, I'm now 100% perfect because I have an IUD
I have an alarm on my phone and I'm normally pretty good about taking it right away. It depends on if I'm working, near my purse, etc. Sometimes I'll forget and take it a few hours late but it's rare if I completely forget.
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