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question about the pill
BillieTheBot
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oh pants. i feel a right plonker asking this but im not sure of the answer.
im on the microgynon pill and have 21 pills to take each month then i have a 7 day break. just realised after getting my shower that i forgot to take my pill yesterday and it was the last pill of the packet.
i know if you miss one of two pills in the packet, you are most likely to be ok but what if its the last pill? are you still protected in your 7 day break? ive just taken the last pill now but its 24 hours late.
another question about the pill - is there a max amount of time you should take it for? reason i ask is because ive been on the pill for 7/8 years now. can it effect your chances of pregnancy if you are on it for a long time? my fella asked me the other day when i mentionned how long i'd been on it and its got me wondering now! i dont want kids for a few years yet but you know...
thanks!
im on the microgynon pill and have 21 pills to take each month then i have a 7 day break. just realised after getting my shower that i forgot to take my pill yesterday and it was the last pill of the packet.
i know if you miss one of two pills in the packet, you are most likely to be ok but what if its the last pill? are you still protected in your 7 day break? ive just taken the last pill now but its 24 hours late.
another question about the pill - is there a max amount of time you should take it for? reason i ask is because ive been on the pill for 7/8 years now. can it effect your chances of pregnancy if you are on it for a long time? my fella asked me the other day when i mentionned how long i'd been on it and its got me wondering now! i dont want kids for a few years yet but you know...
thanks!
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the doctors generally say as long as u take it asap when u remember, it should be ok.. so 24 hrs late should be alright
not quite sure if this helps at all but i didnt wanna read and run x
Not sure if the same rules apply for the last pill though.
So, if you should have taken your last one on Saturday but forgot, then you get 7 days from Friday.
Or, to put it another way, start your next packet a day early and you're sorted.
ive decided to just use protection for a while. not worth the risk! me and my fella dont want to have babies for a few years, lol.
In a word, no.
Taking the pill has zero effect on your fertility. The reason that some doctors say you shouldn't take it for long periods is because it very, very slightly increases your risk of getting breast cancer (plus other things like blood clots and what have you). That said, the increased risk is barely anything, and it actually protects against other female cancers, so you have to weigh it up. Pretty sure all the info is in the leaftets you get with them if you fancy a read.
One thing the pill can do, though, is mask symptoms of diseases which do affect your fertility, so when you come off, those symptoms rear their ugly heads and the pill gets blamed when really the underlying disease was there all along.
I wouldn't worry. I'd been on the combined pill for 12 years, just came off a couple of months ago and my cycle has gone straight back to normal. :thumb: