Emergency contraception ( EC ), or emergency postcoital contraception , are birth control measures that, if taken after sexual intercourse, may prevent pregnancy . Forms of EC include: Emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) sometimes simply referred to as emergency contraceptives (ECs) or the morning-after pill are drugs intended to disrupt ovulation or fertilization , which are steps necessary for pregnancy ( contraceptives ). There is controversy about whether such drugs may in some cases act not as a contraceptive but as a contragestive , a drug that prevents the implantation of a human embryo in the uterus, thus preventing pregnancy, although one study has concluded that this mechanism is unlikely. Intrauterine devices (IUDs) usually used as a primary contraceptive method, but sometimes used as emergency contraception.
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Hi, I am 24 yrs old working professional. unmarried. I have regular periods cycle i.e. get periods in 26-28 days of cycle. I had my periods on 4th May, 2011. Then, I had unprotected sex on 9th May, 2011 and as I was not sure of my safe period,...
Hi, I took two dianette pills on Tuesday by accident so I skipped Wednesday. I had unprotected sex today Sunday. Is this really bad?? I've been on the pill for 16 months
me and my would be had unprotected sex on the 3rd day of her periods, it was on 2nd may and her periods starts on 29th of april. then she took I-pill soon after sex. she starts bleeding after 15 min. and continues till 6th of may. now its 30th of...
ive been on sprintec and always have gotten my period when i got to the sugar pills its been 4 days and no period but i have cramps and a white discharge that comes and goes. ive been having unprotected sex and i did miss a pill or 2 this month....
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I have a quick question. I am 38 yrs old as of the nineteenth and have decided to try for a baby. I took the morning after pill the previous month in July I took the morning after pill I got my period on...
Last Friday September 16th I had unprotected sex, but he didn't go inside me. On September 18th I took the morning after pill. From then on Ive have minor cramping they feel like period cramps. I am not due for my period until October 5th, what...
I'm using Femilon 21 day pills and had unprotected sex several times in the last week. I took the pills in the wrong order by mistake. I took the first 7 pills correctly, and then took 14th, 13th, 12th, 11th, 10th, 9th and 8th. Should I test for...
Hi Doctor, I am a healthy man of 25 years of age. I had unprotected sex with a woman of 24 years of age who was in the 2nd day of her periods. This was last wednesday i.e. on the 22nd of February 2011. She took an ipill within 24 hours of the...
I had unprotected sex 6 days ago and the next morning I took a morning after pull or so called plan B although he did not ejaculate inside me, yesterday unprotected sex happened again and as before my boyfriend did not ejaculate inside me but it...
i had unprotected sex with my bf and the day after i bought plan B i only took 1 pill 5 days later im bleeding brown blood is it that im pregnant?
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User : hi i had my last period in the middle of september but bled for few days towards the end this didnt feel like a normal period though just spotting. I had sex on the 3rd of october and on the17th of october but i took the morning after pill...
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User : i thought i may be pregnant. so i took the morning after pill. and that was a few months ago. and ive gotten my period about 3 times since then. is there any chanve still that im...
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Hi there, I am concered at the moment. I had sex on the 27 dec bang on in the middle of my cycle and took the morning after pill 3 days later. I had unprotected sex again on the same day i took the pill. A week later I bled for 2 days. I was due for my period a week later. I have pregnancy symtoms at the momet. Was the bleeding ma period???
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Hello, I m seventeen and I just got some watery brown vaginal discharge . I wanted to know what the implications of this could be? I took a pregnancy test about two hours ago and it came across as negative. I m supposed to be have gotten my period yesterday. I had unprotected sex for about ten minutes a week or so ago, but my partner withdrew...
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My girl friend took plan B and got her period 3 weeks early, the package and pharmacist said it could be altered by being early or later. Should she be checked out to be safe?
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Hello I had a medical abortion on April 7th and I went back to my follow up appointment on april 21st and they said everything was ok because I had brown blood . I still am bleeding and I had unprotected sex on April 30th and took the morning after pill on May 3 stopped bleeding for tuesday and Wednesday and started bleeding Thursday and I am...
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Hello doctor i had morning after pill on the 28th of march (9days after period ) and i experienced spotting a week later for about a week, then i got my period on the 14th of april as expected, i had unprotected sex on the 4th of may( 21st day of my cycle) and now it s the 14th of may and no period yet, am i pregnant ?
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Hi I have been on the combined pill for over a week now. And on the 8th day of being on the pill I had unprotected sex, would the pill been effective? As this was on Saturday night. Then on the Monday afternoon I went to the pharmacist and got the morning after pill. What are the chances of getting pregnant by what has happened and can you give...
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I take Dilt XR 180 mg and a few times over a year I have gone to the bathrooms within 3 hours of taking my pill and have notices the 3 marshmellow size pieces of thepill in my stool . I took a pill apart and soaked it in water overnight they contain these same 3 marshmellow size pieces once they swell up. So my question is why are these comming...
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Had unprotected sex soon after my period which started 29 Dec 2010 on 2,3,4 Jan 2011. Had sex again on Jan 8 in the morning and took morning after pill 12 hrs later and finished the other pill on Jan 9 at 12pm. I had sex again on the early hrs of 14 Jan and my expected ovulation day was 10 Jan 2011. Im pregnant and dont know which day i had sex...
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I had unprotected sex on valentines. I took the morning after pill . 7 i havent stopped bleeding , spotting, nausea , tummy cramps , and back ache? What could this be? Someone please help?
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i had unprotected sex on my fifth day of menstrual that is 20th Jan 2011, 35 days later i did the pregnancy test kit it came negative, but there were no periods.. i again had unprotected sex around same time,but took an i- pill in less than 4 hours time, this is around end of February, i have still no periods and one my kit test came...
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