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Could Unprotected Sex Cause Pregnancy?
Hello, my name is Chelsea.I am currently using cerezette pills for birth control. I have been using them for around 3 and a half months. I went on holiday for the past 7 days and left them at home. On the 5th day of the holiday, had unprotected sex with my boyfriend. What should I do? Could there be a chance of pregnancy?
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Dear Chelsea,
Cerezette is a Progesterone only contraceptive pill containing 75 microgram Desogestrel in it.
These pills need be taken every day without break for 28 days every cycle for its successful action. Since you have dropped the pills for 7 days and had sexual relations on the 5th day of the dropped pills, you do stand the possibility of pregnancy due to this intercourse.
To protect this intercourse from pregnancy, you could have taken Plan B post-coital emergency contraceptive pill within 72 hours of the intercourse.
If that period is passed, you have to look for the possibility of pregnancy now. You have following options:
1. Wait for the periods. If you miss them, perform pregnancy test on the overnight first morning urine sample about a week after missed period; earlier these tests may report false negative.
Alternatively
2. Get Beta hCG test done on your blood 10 days after the incidence of last unprotected intercourse. Values above 25 mIU/ml are diagnostic of pregnancy while values in non-pregnant sate are less than 5 mIU/ml.
If any of these tests suggests that you are pregnant; and if this is unwanted pregnancy, you can opt of medical termination of pregnancy upto 9 weeks of gestation with the advice and prescription of a Gynaecologist.
I hope this helps you.
Dr. Nishikant Shrotri
Cerezette is a Progesterone only contraceptive pill containing 75 microgram Desogestrel in it.
These pills need be taken every day without break for 28 days every cycle for its successful action. Since you have dropped the pills for 7 days and had sexual relations on the 5th day of the dropped pills, you do stand the possibility of pregnancy due to this intercourse.
To protect this intercourse from pregnancy, you could have taken Plan B post-coital emergency contraceptive pill within 72 hours of the intercourse.
If that period is passed, you have to look for the possibility of pregnancy now. You have following options:
1. Wait for the periods. If you miss them, perform pregnancy test on the overnight first morning urine sample about a week after missed period; earlier these tests may report false negative.
Alternatively
2. Get Beta hCG test done on your blood 10 days after the incidence of last unprotected intercourse. Values above 25 mIU/ml are diagnostic of pregnancy while values in non-pregnant sate are less than 5 mIU/ml.
If any of these tests suggests that you are pregnant; and if this is unwanted pregnancy, you can opt of medical termination of pregnancy upto 9 weeks of gestation with the advice and prescription of a Gynaecologist.
I hope this helps you.
Dr. Nishikant Shrotri
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