I had unprotected sex the same day that I started antibiotic treatment, before I started, am I still protected
I have heard many reports that antibiotics interfere with birth control pills, so I'm looking for some advice on my situation. This past Wednesday, I went to the doctor, and was told that I had a UTI and that I would need to use backup protection for the rest of this pill pack. The thing is, we came home around 2pm, had sex around 4 that afternoon. Then I took my birth control pill at my normal time, 6:30 pm. Then, at 9:30 that night I took my first dose of the antibiotics. So I'm wondering, am I at risk for pregnancy because we didn't use a condom on Wednesday, even though I took the antibiotics 3 hours after my birth control pill?
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Answers:
The effectiveness of your birth control may have been lowered slightly by the antibiotics, but it shouldn't have lowered it *that* much. Yes, you should use a back-up method of birth control when you're on a hormonal birth control and antibiotics, but honestly, I've been on antibiotics before and had sex without a back-up method and been fine. My advice to you is to just be sure to use a condom for the duration of the rest of your prescription of antibiotics, and not to stress too much about that one time.
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Yes you could still be at risk. Remember sperm can live inside you for up to 24hours or unless they find the egg. You still could be at risk. But on the other hand you might not I would still continue to have protected sex for the rest of the month, and going into the new month.
Well, what's done is done. There is an increased risk of pregnancy by doing what you did, but the chance on the very first antibiotic is pretty small.
PLEASE use this a good learning experience and NEVER take any chances if you do NOT want to become pregnant!
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