Birth Control Pills Day 2024 is on Sunday, August 18, 2024: What it a birth control pill

Sunday, August 18, 2024 is Birth Control Pills Day 2024. oral contraceptive; birth control pill -- Encyclopedia Britannica oral contraceptive; birth

What is a birth control pill?

The birth control pill is used and able to prevent pregnancy, that is if taken correctly. Currently, the most commonly used birth control pills contain small amounts of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone.

Unlike the original oral contraceptives used decades ago, low dose forms with few health risks are the norm. Today's birth control pills even offer health benefits and can be prescribed by doctors to their female patients for female related health problems and not just for birth control.

Despite the fact that they are safe for most women, however, birth control pills do carry some health risks. For example, if you are over 35 and smoke or have certain medical conditions such as a history of blood clots or breast or endometrial cancer, your health care professional may advise against taking birth control pills. Also, birth control pills do not protect you from sexually transmitted infections and diseases (STI's & STD's), including HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), the virus that causes AIDS.

In recent years, birth control pills have been changed to include less hormones, resulting in fewer side effects.

Unlike other forms of birth control sold over the counter, you need a doctor's prescription to purchase birth control pills and many health insurers cover their cost. The one exception is the emergency birth control pill (plan B), which can now be sold over the counter as far as I'm aware in some countries.

How birth control pills work?

At the beginning of each menstrual cycle, estrogen levels begin to rise. Estrogen helps thicken the lining of the uterus (endometrium) to prepare for a fertilized egg. Once estrogen levels peak, about 14 days into the menstrual cycle, one of the ovaries releases an egg. This monthly release of an egg is called ovulation.

After ovulation, progesterone, another reproductive hormone, begins to rise. Over the next seven days, progesterone further prepares the endometrium for a fertilized egg. Conception occurs when a fertilized egg implants itself in the uterine lining.

If conception does not occur, both estrogen and progesterone levels drop, signaling the now thickened uterine lining to slough off or shed, and menstruation begins.

Birth control pills are a synthetic form of the hormones progesterone and estrogen. They prevent ovulation by maintaining more consistent hormone levels. Without a peak in estrogen, then, the ovary doesn't get the signal to release an egg. No egg means no possibility for fertilization and pregnancy. They also thicken cervical mucus so the sperm cannot reach the egg, and make the lining of the uterus unreceptive to the implantation of a fertilized egg.

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I Took the birth control pill on the wrong Day ?!! ?

Okay so your packet is white pills with a few brown pills correct?

If you took white ones, although from the wrong day, You will be perfectly Okay, just remember you should always take your pill around the same time of the day and not skip any. You do Not need back up protection.

If you took a brown pill instead of a scheduled white pill, You'll have some spotting, You may need to throw out the packet and start a new one, although it is Okay and safe to finish off the other brown ones and then continue the packet in order.

All of the white pills contain the exact same dosage of the exact same hormone, so they are identical, the day label is only to help You remember if you took one or not. The brown pill is a placebo, aka sugar pill, and its just so you can have your "period" which is really Withdrawal bleeding from not having the hormones.

Just keep in mind:

If you MISS 1 white pill:

1. Take it as soon as you remember. Take the next pill at your regular time. This

means you may take 2 pills in 1 day.

2. You do not need to use a back-up birth control method if you have sex.

If you MISS 2 white pills in a row in WEEK 1 OR WEEK 2 of your pack:

1. Take 2 pills on the day you remember and 2 pills the next day.

2. Then take 1 pill a day until you finish the pack.

3. You COULD BECOME PREGNANT if you have sex during the 7 days after

you restart your pills. You MUST use a non-hormonal birth control method

(such as condoms or spermicide) as a back-up for those 7 days.

name some of the birth control pills?

No birth control is free from side effects but, I believe you are asking about the morning after pill or plan b. It's an emergancy contraceptive that will stop pregnancy after sex. It's expensive though. It's better financially and physically for you or your gf to be on a regular form of birth control like the pill, the shot, the ring or the patch. Plan B is not meant to be your regular form of birth control. It's there incase plan A fails for whatever reason.