Morning After Pill

[dicaprioangel.livejournal.com]

I know I'm probably worrying for nothing, but I still need some sort of reassurance. A week ago, my boyfriend and I had unprotected sex for a brief minute, and for that brief minute, he must have ejaculated. I was ovulating at the time we had sex so I don't know how effective the morning after pill would be. I took the Next Choice generic pill in a single dose the day after the oops happened. I didn't think much of it after I took it because I'm pretty sure it will do its job since I took it within the first 72 hours of unprotected sex. I've been feeling a bit off these past few days and I don't know if it's because of the pill or if it's something else. I've been feeling nauseous and overly tired these last few days and have been having headaches on and off. I know these are the side effects of the pill but I don't know how long these side effects should last or if I've experienced these side effects too late or early or whatnot. I'm pretty regular when it comes to my period. It comes like clockwork, every 24 to 26 days depending. I know because I took the pill my period is bound to come later. I'm due for my period on the 8th but because of the pill, how late would I get it? I just want to know what are my chances of getting pregnant even after having taken the morning after pill? Should I take a pregnancy test, and if so, when is the best time to take it? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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[atalanta0jess.livejournal.com]

Well, it would be pretty damn early for those side effects to be from a pregnancy. I think it takes about a week for the egg to even implant, so you should not be feeling pregnancy symptoms right now.

You can expect a pregnancy test to be quite accurate 19 days after the unprotected sex.

Emergency contraceptive, unfortunately, works primarily by delaying ovulation. So if you had already ovulated when you had sex or before you took the pill, it probably wasn't much help. But if you hadn't yet, then that's good. And really unless you are taking your basal body temp, it's impossible to know for sure whether you had ovulated or not. Anyway, I would definitely take a test if your period doesn't come, but don't worry TOO much in the mean time.

[archangelbeth]

Unfortunately, if he ejaculated in you and you were ovulating, the Plan B (generic) may not be able to stop the ovulation; pretty much the only way it's known to work is by delaying ovulation. So I would advise testing 19 days after the sex in question (which is when you can generally trust a negative result), whether you bleed or not. Peeonastick.com likes Dollar Tree Store tests, if you are in the US.

However, a week after sex is very probably way too early to have any symptoms of pregnancy -- this is likely to be only the pill, and/or stress, and/or PMS.

Now, since the Plan B basically hits your system with a megadose of hormones in an attempt to use a bullhorn to shout at your ovaries, "YOU ALREADY OVULATED! DON'T DO IT AGAIN!" and make them stagger around going, "Whut? whut? huh?" till the sperm are dead... The rise-and-fall of those megahormones can trigger your uterus to have a withdrawal bleed (much as if you were on hormonal birth control and having a placebo week), so you may bleed early, on time, or late, depending on how your uterus reacts. If it's early, it could be any day now. If it's on time, well, that'd be when it would be. If it's late... Probably no more than 2-3 weeks late, in general?

Some people do find that their cycles are wonked up for 2-3 months after taking Plan B, so be aware of that, as well.

Good luck!

[rayofblacklight.livejournal.com]

I really like how you explain EC. :)

OP: I don't really have any advice but I hope that everything turns out okay.

[nickelshoe.livejournal.com]

Next Choice is about 89% effective. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_contraception#Effectiveness_of_ECPs

[ljquin.livejournal.com]

A copper IUD can be effective up to 5 days after unprotected sex. I needed one after an exploding condom: it worked.

[timeprojectile.livejournal.com]

If you did already ovulate, your chances of getting pregnant are probably about the same as if you'd done nothing, but much lower if you hadn't ovulated. (And ovulation doesn't necessarily occur at the exact same time every month...it can be advanced or delayed a bit by various random factors.)

As for your feeling off, I think it's nearly impossible to have symptoms of pregnancy before about 1.5-2 weeks after conception, because it takes a week or two for the fertilized egg to implant. Pregnancy tests usually can't give a positive result until 2 weeks after the embryo's conception at the earliest, and I heard as many as half of embryos naturally fall out at the end of the cycle. Which may be why the pregnancy rate of women who use no birth control is only 85% per year, as opposed to something higher.

[dana caffrey (from livejournal.com)]

The sperm lives in the women's uterus for about 72 hours and after if didn't find an egg to fertilize, it dies. If you're not sure whether you're pregnant or not, wait until three days before taling any pregnancy test. And by the way, the chance of getting pregnant is higher when a woman is ovulating.

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