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Suggest Dosage Of Birth Control Pills
Hello. I have a question concerning my birthcontrol. Tonight marks the time when I need to start my new month of birth control and when I grabbed my last month that I have I noticed that 4 of the first week of pills are gone. I dont have the money for a new packet of pills for a week or so. Can I start my pills on the next available day, the fifth pill, and continue throughout the month until I run out of the blue pills then buy another month and take the first 4, and then go back to the original month and finish it off with the white sugar pills? I have the 28 day tri sprintec packets. So basically, does it matter if I take my pills completely out of order excluding rhe white sugar pills at the end? Thank you for your help!
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Sun, 27 Jul 2014
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Hallow Dear,
If you start taking the remaining pills of the previous pack, there should not be any problem, provided you take 21 pills for days without any break. It settles down to the option of taking those four missing pills from next months pack. Thus, the same issue will arise in the next month. In this jugglery, there is a risk that you might mess the calendar of the pills.
Safer is to buy a new pack and start as per the scheduled day.
I hope you got the message.
Dr. Nishikant Shrotri
If you start taking the remaining pills of the previous pack, there should not be any problem, provided you take 21 pills for days without any break. It settles down to the option of taking those four missing pills from next months pack. Thus, the same issue will arise in the next month. In this jugglery, there is a risk that you might mess the calendar of the pills.
Safer is to buy a new pack and start as per the scheduled day.
I hope you got the message.
Dr. Nishikant Shrotri
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