I need help with the pill!?
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Reading the pamphlet that came with the pills will be helpful.
You can either start on the day of your period or do what I used to do when I was on them--the Sunday start. You take the pill on the Sunday after your period starts. Sometimes it is easier to do the Sunday start so you can always count on what day of the week to take your first pill and when your period will come.
If you are on regular pills, you will take them for 3 weeks (called "on" weeks) then you will have 1 week off of them. However, some brands will have the 4th week with different colored pills that don't truly contain birth control. You don't have to take them, but many people do just to maintain the good habit during their 'off' week.
If you had a Sunday start, start the Sunday after your period. If you started on the day of your period, do the same again.
Also-take them at the same time every day that you take them! This will greatly impact the effectiveness of the pills. I found that setting an alarm reminder on my cell phone was helpful for when to take the pill, and writing on a calendar what my on and off weeks were also helped.
You take your first pill on the first day of your period...
You wait until you finish the whole lot of pills, then go back to the docs.
yeah they say to start them when you start your peroid but i never waited for that to happen. just yeah take one everyday and when it comes to your off week take the dummy pills which are normally a diffenet color than the rest of them. if you want to skip your period for that month just throw the dummy ones away and start your new pill pack. good luck
I'm starting the pill also for the first time and i got my period Wednesday but my doctor told me to wait to take it on Sunday that way you wont have your period on the weekend.so if my period goes away tomorrow i start taking it tomorrow but if it doesn't i start taking the Sunday after this Sunday.i didn't know you can take them when ever
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