When do you start your birth control patch?

Answer 1

WHEN TO START If this is the first time you are using ORTHO EVRA, wait until the day you get your menstrual period. The day you apply your patch will be Day 1. Your "Patch Change Day" will be on this day every week. You may choose a "First Day Start" or a "Sunday Start" as defined below: First Day Start: Apply your first patch during the first 24 hours of your period, which will be considered your "Patch Change Day." If the Patch is not applied within the first 24 hours of your period, you must use back-up contraception, such as a condom, spermicide or a diaphragm, for the first week of patch use. Sunday Start: Apply your first patch on the first Sunday after your menstrual period starts

Answer 2

When you are using the patch and have your "Week off" period week. You take it off as you normally would and then wait. It can be a few months for your peiod to return but you can get pregnant even before you get your next period. So use protection even if you want to get pregnant (easier for figuring out due date) You may notice "symptoms" of being pregnant as your body gets used to being off the patch. If you get worried test.

Answer 3

You can start the Birth Control patch at any time in your cycle. If you start on the first five days of your period, you have immediate protection; otherwise, you should use a backup method of birth control, like condoms or abstinence from vaginal sex, until you've been on the patch for seven days.

Answer 4

If you start the birth control patch during the first 24 hours of your period, you have immediate protection. If you start the first patch at any other time, you should use a backup method, like condoms or abstinence from vaginal sex, until you've worn the patch for seven days.

Answer 5

If you have side effects with the patch, these could start within a few days of beginning use. They may include breast tenderness or breakthrough bleeding, which should resolve in the first three cycles.

Answer 6

If you have been using BCP, put on your first patch the day you would have started your next packet of pills. Otherwise either the first day of your period or the Sunday following the first day of your period.

Answer 7

Normally you use the birth control patch for seven days, changing it each week for three weeks. On the fourth week, you leave the patch off.

Answer 8

You wear each patch for one week, for three weeks in a row, then you remove the third patch and wear none for one week.