Earlier or Later?

[Pinkgirl36]

Which is better for taking you birth control pill?

For example, I normally take it at 10, but have to be in to work earlier that day, so I take it eariler in the day, is it better to take it earlier or later?

[molecularfire]

Doesn't matter. The important thing is that you take the right pills on the right days. :shrug:

Of course... I've never take them so I may not be the best source of data on that. :P

[nickel]

i would say it's better to take them earlier vs later, but all instructions suggest to take them at the same time each day.

[Pinkgirl36]

Originally posted by nickelback
i would say it's better to take them earlier vs later, but all instructions suggest to take them at the same time each day. yeah well like 99.9% of the time I take it at the same time everyday...but there are days when I have to go to work early or something, so I will just take it before I leave, but sometimes it's only like an hour earlier, because I do think that it would be better to take it an hour or so earlier then later, if you can't take it at the same time.

[ShortStack]

Ok...this may be a silly question, but are they attached to your house or can you take them with you? I always carry mine in my purse, and I recently changed my "dosage" to the afternoon, around lunchtime because I always forgot! But hey, I say take them with you then you won't have to worry about it. As long as it's the same time, you're good.

[Pinkgirl36]

Originally posted by ShortStack
Ok...this may be a silly question, but are they attached to your house or can you take them with you? I always carry mine in my purse, and I recently changed my "dosage" to the afternoon, around lunchtime because I always forgot! But hey, I say take them with you then you won't have to worry about it. As long as it's the same time, you're good. I have kept them in my purse before, and was good at taking it then, but I kinda can't now because I don't have constent access to my purse like I did before, because when my purse would be there with me, it was really no problem, but usually my purse is locked up somewhere....ahhh the joys of working retail...:rolleyes:

[molecularfire]

Forget the pills. They now have a patch that you can stick to yourself. You wear one patch for a week and switch patches after a week. It goes by 4 patches/month cycle or something like that. Of course... that's just what I've heard (from a doctor), I haven't tried it myself. :D

[avlena]

for some odd reason, i'm more inclined to trust the pill then the patch, even though they're supposed to have essentially the same effectiveness. *shrug* i guess i'm a bit suspicious of the idea that putting a sticker on your body does much... has anyone actually used it?

[ShortStack]

I'd like to see the percentage of the patch versus the pill which I know works. So why change to something I'm not completely sure of? Pill isn't that hard to take, just little tenny bopper kids in the world are lazy.

And Pink, that makes sense now. Well, I don't think it matters...as long as you can take your pill around the same time each day.