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Are you protected while taking the sugar pills in your birth control?
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∙ 7y ago
When you are on the sugar pills, you have the same protection as on the earlier active pills as long as you took the previous weeks of pills as directed. This protection is in place whether you are having withdrawal bleeding that day or not. Using a condom further lowers the risk of pregnancy, and provides protection against disease. The sugar pills are there to make sure you maintain a routine with the taking of the pill.
There is always a chance of pregnancy while using Birth Control. If you are really afraid of pregnancy you should use two methods (like the pill and a condom, or the pill and a spermicide etc.) Among 1000 couples using the birth control pill perfectly for a year, three couples will get pregnant. When you consider that perfect use is challenging, then it's worth looking at "typical use" failure rates: of 1000 couples using the birth control pill "typically" (with mistakes) during a year, 30 will have a pregnancy. Using a condom each time you have sex lowers the rate of pregnancy significantly.
Some birth control brands contain iron or other vitamins in the placebo pills. Whether your placebos contain iron or not, you have protection from pregnancy during the placebo period as long as you took the previous weeks of pills correctly.
Wiki User
∙ 7y ago
Michael Williams
The placebo pills in your birth control pack have no hormones in them, but you are still protected from pregnancy during this seven-day break as long as you took the first 21 pills correctly.
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What are the signs if wife is taking birth control pills?
Packet of birth control pills on the kitchen counter, receipts from the pharmacy for birth control pills, or your wife asking, "Have you seen my birth control pills?"
What if you was recenting taking birth control but been off for 2 weeks and having un protected sex could you be prego?
If you're not taking birth control pills for the last two weeks, you could get pregnant.
Can taking birth control pills result in down syndrome?
Birth control pills do not increase the risk of birth defects in babies conceived by women who are or were taking them.
What are you to do if a guy takes birth control?
If he is taking female birth control pills forget him. They contain hormones and he is not taking them for birth control.
Birth control's affect on teens that just began puberty and are taking pills?
You should not mix pills with your birth control pills. This candamage your insides or cause your birth control to be ineffective. Mixing pills is dangerous.
Were you taking birt?
Were you taking birth control pills before TTC?
Will your butt get bigger when you taking birth control pills?
no
How long after you start taking birth control pills will you breast start growing?
Birth control pills do not make your breasts grow.
You took birth control pills before taking a pregnancy test will that affect it?
Birth control pills have no effect on pregnancy tests.
What happens if you delay your period for a week while on birth control and then do not get your period straight away when you start taking the sugar pills?
Continue taking your birth control pills as scheduled.
Can you start taking birth control a week and a half before your period is set to come and if you do this will it suppress your period until you stop taking the pills?
If you want to suppress just the one period you can get specific pills from the doctor, but if you need contraception as well you can start birth control. However you will not be protected from pregnancy for about 3 weeks.
Can you have a hormone imbalance if you are taking birth control pills?
yes
