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Q: Got Pregnant While On the Pill...
asked by: Kal Sar on June 30th, 2005
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My girlfriend found out yesterday she is pregnant. She has been taking the pill (ortho triciclen lo) for four months. She has been taking the pill practically perfectly. She has never missed a pill, and the only time she has taken it late (three hours after the normal time) was once last week.

Around the middle of month two, she vomitted a few times. It was always at evening, and she takes the pill in the morning. We also did not have sexual intercourse during that week. Also, she has had diarehea (sp?) a few times a month, but I was told it needs to be chronic diarehea to really have any effect.

Assuming all of the above is accurate, how could she become pregnant? Are we just that unlucky, being the 1 out of a 1000 that this happens to?

If anyone can throw some answers my way, I would greatly appreciate it. We do not want this to happen again in the future, so if we did something wrong we would like to know. Thanks
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kgansheimer
replied on June 30th, 2005
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Was she ever on any antibiotics (sick at all) during that time? It decrease the effectiveness of bc and can cause pregnancy.
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Sammy001
replied on July 1st, 2005
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After the baby comes get rid of that pill.. ( ortho tri cyclen!!!

I was on that kind for 7 years...And I got pregnant last summer..I took it religiously every day, at the same time.

For some reason...I have been hearig more and more conception stories about ortho tri_cyclen.... Never about any other kind just that.

I am one of the few who conceived while using it as well.

I now have a beautiful 11 week old baby boy..And I wouldn't change it for the world.

My boyfriend and I were not ready, and was very scared..But it happened, and we love him endlessly. He is an absolute joy and my only regret is not having him sooner..

Good luck.
When you look at you little baby for the first time..You'll understand completely!!

Good luck
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El
replied on July 1st, 2005
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Happened to Me
I forget what pill I was on, it was so lopng ago, but I had been on it for about 5 years, and I took it religiously (even for the 3 years I was single, and not even having sex!!!!)

i used to know what time it was, because i'd get the urge to take my pilll- sure enough, if I checked my watch, it would be the right ime, that's how good I was with it. It was habitual.

I missed a period, but it wasn't unusual, so I went right on taking it, when I missed the 2nd, I became concerned-not concerned that I was pregnant, but that i'd been on the pill too long, and become infertile, or something. Pregnancy was the last thing I expeceted, and I wasn't ready.

My partner and I had just moved in together 2 weeks before we found out, and I was 8 weeks pregnant by then.

We had the baby- our beautiful daughter, who is now 2 and a hlf, and I wouldn't change a thing!!! I couldn't imagine the world without her in it. We are now married, and expecting her sister on nov 10th.
We figured perhaps it happened for a reason, and it certainly looks like it did.
Good luck. Don't waste a minute regretting anything. The baby is there, it didn't ask to be there.
It might be the most wonderful thing that ever happened to you.
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