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Forum Girl
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Location: Orlando, Florida
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When Does It Become Effective?
Posted: 03-28-04 15:56pm
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I have never been on birth control before
and sunday will be the first day I start
on yasmin. How long do I need to
continue to use back up protection before
the birth control becomes effective? I
forgot to ask my doctor when I had my
appointment.
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cherry_pie
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Joined: 25 Jan 2004
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Posted: 03-29-04 01:50am
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You're going to hear alot of different
answers to this question... Some will say
1 week, some will say one month.. And
others will say 3 months.. I'm on
marvelon and started not using protection
after one week (if I started my pills on
day one of my period)... Only because
this is what the marvelon website said the
time was for it to be effective, however
i've read that just to be on the safe
side, use protection for the first
month... And during this first month you
have to remember to take your pills 100%
right. Any mistake could cause an
unwanted surprise!
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Forum Girl
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Posted: 03-29-04 04:00am
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Thanks - I didn't even think to try to
look it up online. The yasmin website
says its effective after one week.
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2ferano
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Posted: 03-29-04 15:55pm
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Birth control becomes effective after
whatever the specific brand says.
However, no b/c becomes fully effective
until after three consecutive months of
taking the pill faithfully each day at the
same time. I cannot believe how many
doctors do not explain this to their
patients. Some people do not use back up
at all and do not conceive. When others
wait the week or two weeks or month that
everyone mistakenly thinks it the correct
time and then they do become pregnant.
Bottom line, if you do not want a little
one, use condoms. B/c is only 98%
effective anyway. People get pregnant on
the pill everyday.
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Forum Girl
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Posted: 03-30-04 11:09am
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If you are saying that it takes 3 months
for the birth control to become effective
- why would the manufacturer's website say
it becomes effective after one week if
that isn't true?
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cherry_pie
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Posted: 03-30-04 12:14pm
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Yea, I don't know why specific bc websites
say that their pill is effective after a
certain amount of time if it actually
isn't.. I don't think that they want us
to be getting pregnant!! But like I said,
im on marvelon and the website said that
if I started my pills on the sunday after
my period, that I would have to use
protection for a full month before it
would be effective. However if I started
my pills on the first day of my period
that after one full week they would be
effective.. I started the first day of af
and took it for granted that the next week
I could go without a condom and anything
else.. I have had no problems since then
(however I did have some spotting
throughout the first month, but I think
that was just my body getting used to it,
it hasn't happened since).
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Forum Girl
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Make It Stop
Posted: 04-03-04 01:13am
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I am on day 9 of my period. I'm on day 7
of my birth control. My periods normally
last 4 or 5 days. Is it ever going to
stop? Is this normal? This totally
sucks. This is one of the reasons I
didn't want to go on it in the first
place.
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cherry_pie
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Posted: 04-03-04 01:40am
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Check back with your doctor.. The pill
he/she gave you might not be strong enough
or there might be something else wrong.
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weemishka
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Location: belleville, Ont
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Posted: 04-23-04 05:02am
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This is what I don't understand. These
companies advertise that their pill (or
patch or whatever) becomes effective after
one week. You're either fertile in a
month, or your not! You ovulate once a
month so if it's not safe the first week,
than its not safe the first month. I
think different companies claim their pill
is effective after one week for two
reasons.... Marketing - have to stay
competitive.. Who wants a pill thats
effective after three months if theres
another pill available thats effective in
the first month, and 2, to cover their
ass.. If someone did get pregnant during
their first month, they have that first
week where the pill "might not have been
effective" to blame.
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2ferano
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Posted: 04-23-04 10:15am
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Birth control companies cannot be held
responsible anyway, because there is no
way to prove if the woman took the pill
every day at the same time everyday. So,
if their was a lawsuit, it would just be
he said she said and charges would have to
be dropped. I am sticking to what my
doctor says, I don't care what the b/c
companies say.
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weemishka
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Posted: 04-24-04 00:04am
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I didn't say anything about lawsuit. It's
all marketing.
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2ferano
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Posted: 04-24-04 06:15am
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I am sorry. When you said that they
would have that it may not have been
effective in the first week, that is what
I thought you meant.
But anyway, I was not really directing my
last post at you. I agree with you on the
marketing thing 100% I am just trying to
make people understand that the b/c
company can say it is effective after the
first pill, or first week, because they
cannot be held liable if it is not. That
is why I choose to listen to my doctor
instead of them. That is all.
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Forum Girl
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Posted: 04-24-04 10:20am
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I would have a hard time believing my
doctor over the manufacturing company.
My docter is not involved with the
development or testing of a particular
drug so why would he/she know more about
it than the company that manufactures it?
Granted those companies want to push
their drug and make their money but they
would be extremely liable if a bunch of
women had unprotected sex after a week on
birth control and got pregnant after
following the drug's directions. If it
only happened to a few women it would be a
fluke. But if it started happening to
hundreds or thousands of women, the
company would be liable for making a
faulty drug or making false claims about
the drug. There are lawyers everywhere
who have gotten rich off of these kinds of
lawsuits.
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2ferano
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Posted: 04-24-04 17:08pm
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This is true, there are. But, the fact
of the matter is that it cannot be proved.
Like I said, you all can believe whatever
you want and more power to you. But, I
love my doctor and she has never steered
my wrong, so I personally listen to her.
That is my perogative and that is what I
choose to do. That is just me.
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