Got Pregnant While On the Pill... Posted: 06-30-05 10:16am
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
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 55 Location: Ohio
Posted: 06-30-05 13:44pm
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
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 711 Location: ,
Posted: 07-01-05 10:59am
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
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 476 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Happened to Me Posted: 07-01-05 21:25pm
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.
