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taking too many morning after pills
Hi.. I'm 19 years old and I've been sexually active for approximately 6 months now. In this 6 months I took the morning after piLl thrice already. I know it's not a form of contraception but my boyfriend hates having sex with a condom and there's no way I can get the pill or be on the injection without my parents tripping. I was just wondering what's the worst that could happen if I keep using the morning after pill this much... Will it affect me trying to fall pregnant in the future?
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The morning after pill is the only emergency, in the case if your condom got broken, or something like that, its not an every day pill, no way. Taking it too often (more than once a month) might cause serious metabolical malfunctions. It will barely affect your fertility in general, but might mess up your health which is bad. If your sexual intercourse is regular and you're confident in your partner, then just take contraceptive pills on the regular base. If you dont want your parents to find out, to mess up with the insurance, to run to a planned parenthood, and etc, just order pills online, its a good anonymous solution.
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There are two types. Names could be misleading as I live in the UK, and if you're in the US they may be completely different. One is very effective up to 24h after sex, but it falls away quite quickly from 36h onwards. The other remains consistently (but slightly less) effective for up to 120h. At best either could safely/conservatively be assumed to be 90-95 percent effective. There is NO LIMIT to the amount of times either can be used. They do not become less effective the more you take. Neither have any adverse effect on your future fertility. The 'one in any single menstrual-cycle' belief is completely false. Neither 'carry forward' any significant contraceptive properties. Known side-effects are brief, small and often non-existent. They are of the 'slightly tired/sick feeling/headache' kind. Nothing more significant is associated with them. The widespread acceptance of 'after sex birth-control' is unlikely in the near future mainly due to 1. If it fails and you do become pregnant there is an increased risk of complications, most notably ectopic-
pregnancy. Your future fertiliy could be affected in this case, but not by the pill itself. 2. Social issues, ie they encourage casual, unprotected (high risk of sti) sex. 3. The effective percentage is a little less than regular contraceptive methods. Bit of a 'dry' science-geek answer. But that's the dope on m.a.p's. Any assurance?
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No one really knows how it will affect you in the long term. No one has really studied it yet. That is part of why it's not recommended that the pills be used in that way.
The most serious risks are blot clotting issues - those complications can be very dangerous - but are exceptionally uncommon and generally women know if they are at greater risk for those issues. The risk to your future fertility is, in theory, small. But really, no one knows.
And then there is the risk of failure. The biggest risk of the morning after pill is that is will not work. Morning After pills are not NEARLY as effective as regular birth control, be them pills or injections. Statically speaking, condoms are more effective in common use than the morning after pill.
Frankly, if I were you, I'd be giving by boyfriend a good verbal thrashing. My health is far, far more serious than his 'dislike' of condoms. Not to mention the expense and unreliability of morning after pills.
A man who is not willing to use a condom, if his female partner is not able to access or use another reliable and safe form of birth-control, is a man who shouldn't be having sex. Period. End of discussion. (Unless, of course, they WANT a baby.)
Are you okay with risking your health, and pregnancy, because he dislikes condoms?
Are you okay risking your health, and pregnancy, because you can't find ways to have fun sexually without 'penis in vagina' sex?
I don't think that's okay. I wouldn't accept it.
If you don't think that's okay, stop accepting it.
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It's not a good thing to do, It's not even that affective, like, you should have it 24 hours after unprotected sex, any longer and it really becomes quite pointless.
That's why theres the pill and things, now I was worried about what my parents would say (although, they never need to find out in England, you can go and get it done and they need never know) If you HAVE to tell them though, just say what I said:
The Pill controls your hormones, alot of my friends went on it for this reason and I needed to as well to be totally honest, my periods were very irregular and could last from longer than a week to a few days, it drove me mad not knowing when it would come and being unprepared so I asked to go on the pill, simply because it controls your periods better, I can tell when it's coming now easily :)
If that excuse won't work for you, alot of girls claim that the pill helped with their period pains as well, you don't have to tell your parents the true reason for your desire to be on it, these are innocent reason which could still be honest if your period causes you problems as well.
On a side note, not many men like condoms, make sure you are totally certain he has no std's since thats what condoms are really there to protect us from more so than pregnancy. :) Goodluck x
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