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Birth control
Does alcohol decrease the effectiveness of birth control? Also, if you forget to take one of your birth control pills one day, how many days should you wait to have sex before it gains it's full effectiveness and is back on track again? Thanks.
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Alcohol has no direct effect on the birth control pill's ability to prevent pregnancy. However drinking it can indirectly decrease the pill's effectiveness because it in general interferes with a person's mind. Which means a woman drinking alcohol is less likely to take the pill at approximately the same time each day while drinking. After drinking a lot of people experience 'hangovers' the next day and if it causes her to throw-up shortly after taking the pill, it loses it's effectiveness because it's no longer in her body at all.
If you just forget one, use a condom that day if you have sex and take 2 the next day. If you miss more than two, you are supposed to use a condom for the rest of that pack of pills.
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Alcohol does not decrease the effectiveness of birth control.
If you forget to take one of your pills you might call your doctors office and talk to the nurse. I believe they will tell you to take it as soon as you realize you missed it. If you have been on them for a while, like maybe a year, missing one probably isn't going to have much of an effect. Less than that consult your doctors nurse. They will be very helpful and will answer any question you may have without charging you for it. :)
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