If i start the contraceptive pill today, when will i be protected?

January 6, 2009 on 5:39 am | By | In bluefreesky.com | If i start the contraceptive pill today, when will i be protected?
  • i havent been on the pill for 13 years, now i have 4 kids im ready to go on it again
    i asked the dr how long till im safe,, he said 4 days

    when i went chemist to buy it the pharmacist said it will take effect in one month

    i told her the dr said 4 days was enough and she laughed,,,

    whos right? thankyou xxxxxxx,, by the way the pill is called Levlen 30


  • EVERY place i've ever been to, and my friends have been to, have said ONE MONTH.


  • I was Always told 30 days..better to be safe than sorry. 30 days is not hard to wait.


  • At least for the first 2 months, if you take the pill as prescribed, your odds of getting pregnant decrease. Most people consider the odds acceptable if they are under 1%, which is achieved I believe in about a month.

    If you started taking the pill yesterday, your odds of getting pregnant if you have sex today are minutely smaller than if you had not taken the pill. Its not linear - I imagine the bulk of protection does come in the first 4 days, but that might make the odds something like 10%. Would you consider 10% sufficient? To achieve that 1% you need to be taking it for the rest of the month.

    Want a really tortured analogy?

    Imagine a well: If you drop a ball down the well and it hits the bottom, you get pregnant. Every day, you drop a block which covers up more of the bottom, but the blocks don't fall down and line up in rows, they land on each other, overlapping, etc. Even if the well is pretty narrow and the blocks take up most of the width of the well, there is a CHANCE the ball will manage to bounce around and eventually hit the bottom.

    By the way, every day that goes by that you don't take a pill, someone comes and REMOVES a block. Obviously if the well is mostly plugged up and you remove one block, it won't be THAT much easier for the ball to get the bottom, but it will be a little easier. And if you keep removing blocks, eventually, they offer no protection at all.

    Well, I told you it was a tortured analogy.


  • I would give it at least one cycle or one month, and people wonder how they get pregnant on BC.


  • One month- you need the entire month of the hormones to be taken in by your body. Get a new doctor!


  • Read the instruction leaflet inside the packet!!

    Generally, though, if you start taking the pill on the first day of your period, the 7-day rule applies - ie you need to use an alternative form of contraeception for 7 days.







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