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I messed my birth control pill days up! What do I do about this?
Ohkay so, ; My doctors french, and im french but more english... but when my doctor was showing me how to use my pills etc.. he put the sticker dates in french.. so when i got home i put it on as in english.. but then i thought it fell off so the one that was crumpled up i put it on ... i started the pill on a sunday.. and this said i started it on a saturday which got my two days messed up ...
I took 2 of my birthcontrol pills yesterday because it was friday yesterday and the sticker date said i missed Thursday's pill.. so i took both of them... but today i went to take my pill, and realized that the sticker was the wrong one when it fell off again ! (which was really not the right sticker because the one under neath said i started on a sunday which i did and the one that fell off said saturday) .. now what do i do for tonights pill ? i took it yesterday :S
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Take the next pill in your pack. Just keep taking one pill a day until the end of the pack. As long as you take one every day you should be fine. Since you doubled up, your period might be a day early, but you should be fine.
You should use back-up methods of birth control for the first 2-3 packs to be safe (that's what my doctor said, anyway, haha). The sticker isn't a requirement, as long as you remember what day the pack starts - the sticker just helps people remember. If you have a cell phone, set a daily alarm to remember, too.
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Well, it kind of depends on what kind of pills you have. I am no doctor, so you might want to call him up and ask him what to do. But I will tell you what I would do if I were you. If your pills are all the same hormone (they are all the exact same color) then as long as you're taking one every day it's ok. If you miss one or two, then just keep going the next day. If you have the pills that are the three different hormones (or strengths of hormones, i can't remember exactly) which means that they are three different color pills, then if you miss one, go ahead and take it as soon as you remember, or you can take that one with the next day's pill. If you miss two, go ahead and forget about them and skip to the correct day. If you miss more than that, just throw the whole pack out, wait to have a period and then start the new pack.
In your case, I would just rewrite the whole schedule and keep going (you took today's pill yesterday, so take tomorrow's pill today, and the next day's pill tomorrow, etc). Missing a couple pills here and there or getting them mixed up every now and then won't hurt you, unless you have some kind of medical problem. Pills work on a cycle, not on a calender, so the days don't really matter as long as you are taking them in order. Missing pills, however, could get you pregnant, so always make sure that you have taken at least a week's worth of pills without any mistakes before having sex.
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