I really wouldn't worry that not getting pregnant because of erratic pill taking means you're infertile. While missing pills can decrease the efficacy of hormonal birth control, it's still far from an automatic window to pregnancy.
As oboegoddess mentioned, many perfectly fertile women don't resume ovulating for weeks or months after stopping hormonal birth control -- so for them, missing a few days of pills (especially in the middle of a pack, instead of closer to the placebo week) would not really put them at risk for a breakthrough ovulation and thus, a pregnancy.
I'll put it this way -- during the year I was on the pill, I was far more erratic than you. Significantly more. And while I know my protection was reduced considerably, I never became pregnant. And I also know that I have no reproductive health concerns and am thus almost certainly fertile.
True female infertility is actually very rare. Most infertility is caused by reproductive issues that have other symptoms -- something like poly-cystitic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) or endometriosis. If you don't have other reproductive health concerns that would lead to troubles conceiving, it's a fairly safe bet that you are indeed perfectly fertile.
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Date: 2007-05-19 09:53 pm (UTC)As
I'll put it this way -- during the year I was on the pill, I was far more erratic than you. Significantly more. And while I know my protection was reduced considerably, I never became pregnant. And I also know that I have no reproductive health concerns and am thus almost certainly fertile.
True female infertility is actually very rare. Most infertility is caused by reproductive issues that have other symptoms -- something like poly-cystitic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) or endometriosis. If you don't have other reproductive health concerns that would lead to troubles conceiving, it's a fairly safe bet that you are indeed perfectly fertile.