What are my chances of getting pregnant?

[oporcupinee.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend came inside of me right after the first day of starting birth control for the first time.  It was also the last day of my period when he came inside. I'm freaking out that I may be pregnant and can't wait a month to find out. What do you think are my chances of being pregnant? :(

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[oporcupinee.livejournal.com]

I don't want to take plan B, I took it last month :/ Doesn't the fact that I'm taking birth control atm help at all?

[archangelbeth]

If you're on the last day of your natural period... No, it may not help at all. Not unless you started the first day of your natural period. It takes 7 days for the hormones in the birth control pills to hypnotize your ovaries. If you are someone who ovulates shortly after your period, then your ovaries may not be hypnotized in time, and could pop out an egg.

If it is vital that you not become pregnant, I would advise Plan B as soon as possible. If you have a plan for an unplanned pregnancy that you are willing and able to go with, then your risk acceptance may be such that it'd be okay to bet on not-ovulating before the hormones cut in.

Either way, you can take a pregnancy test and have good confidence in a negative 19 days after the sex in question.

Good luck!

[blewoutthestars.livejournal.com]

Not a huge amount, unfortunately, as you'd only taken one day's worth and generally speaking on the combined pill (I believe progesterone-only pills can be different) it takes seven days for you to be protected (assuming you don't miss any pills.) It is CONCEIVABLE that you might have already ovulated/ovulate in the next day or so in which case yes, you could get pregnant. However, my understanding is that it should be very unlikely for you to ovulate - but, possible.

If it's something that's going to eat you up, take plan B. General thinking is also that a pregnancy test can be considered fairly reliable from about 19 days after the sex in question, so you don't have to wait quite a whole month if you don't want to!

Hope everything works out for you.