Curious

[gatesy08]

I'm just trying to understand the pill and my body so I'm just asked a hypothetical question.

Say you had sex without a condom during your third week of pills and missed your pill the next day but doubled up the way you're supposed to would you have to wait three weeks to take an accurate test? Or if you doubled up properly and continued your pills properly had your withdrawal bleed would that tell you you're fine and you wouldn't need a test?

Does that make sense? Just curious.

[Karyn]

A withdrawal bleed indicates that you have not become pregnant during the previous 3 weeks of active pills, so that would cover even risks in the last week of active pills.

I know you're anxious about pregnancy risks and it probably feels like learning as much as possible about how the pill works will help with that, but could I make a suggestion? Anxiety very often isn't improved by really immersing yourself in information about the thing that makes you anxious. Focusing on all these little details can actually keep you stuck in that anxiety rather than making it better, and I wonder if you might benefit by taking 24 hours away from looking up anything online about pregnancy or the pill (including posting here) and trying instead to focus on other things. What do you think?

[gatesy08]

Yes I think you might be right.