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Yes it can, but not for long. Birth control pills have hormones in them. Also after quitting birth control pills/patches you have a higher risk of getting pregnant!
The menstrual period is the time in which you are menstruating, I think that you mean your menstrual cycle. Safe days are days you can have sex without getting pregnant, you can only know these days if you were using fertility awareness method as a form of birth control.
yes absolutely. you should be taking the birth control for at least a week or two for it to be fully effective.
Birth control pills are not effective until you have used them for 7 days. Thus, your chances of being pregnant are the same as if you were not on birth control at all.
If you started the new birth control on time, starting no later than you were scheduled to start the next cycle of your old birth control, then there's no increased risk of pregnancy. If you started late, you might be at risk for pregnancy.
The only way you can delay menstruation is by taking birth control pills.
Yes. Birth control is NEVER a 100% blocker. The only surefire way is abstinence.
Usually, when you take birth control pills, you should refrain from sex for the first seven days or use alternative contraception. However, you should keep in mind that the only known form of birth control that is 100% effective is abstinence.
Hello - The only incorrect way to take birth control pills is by not following your doctors or perscribes advice to the exact detail and missing pills and containously using birth control as a method of skipping your period.
In the US, the birth control patch is by prescription only, so consultation is required before starting to use the patch.
Only when you use it, like all birth control. Birth control is to prevent pregnancy while you are using it, it does not make you sterile for all future.
The birth control patch fist came out in the early 1990's and has only reached 8% use among the birth control using population. It is however, rising in popularity but is losing ground the internal and hormonal methods of birth control.