Taking Plan B The Day Of Ovulation
Plan b should work you took it plenty soon enough.
Taking plan b the day of ovulation. You take plan b when you have unprotected exposure to semen on a day you are ovulating. Many women may choose to use plan b one step or its generic forms my way take action and next choice one dose as emergency contraception to prevent pregnancy after birth control failure or unprotected intercourse. It does have a higher failure rate then birth control pills and the manufacturer recommends you use a reg birth control and only use it if something happens like you were using condoms and it broke. Ovulation is a process and an event.
You need to know how effective plan b is for preventing pregnancy and whether you can get pregnant after taking the pill. You can use it as a backup if you suspect your birth control may have failed you missed taking a birth control pill. However before switching birth control you should know the pros and cons. The high dose of hormones in the pills interrupts your menstrual cycle preventing or delaying the your regular mid cycle surge.
Plan b one step is a brand of over the counter otc emergency contraception. But there are. Plan b levonorgestrel is a pill that is taken the day after having unprotected sex. Unfortunately emergency hormonal contraceptive is not effective if you have already ovulated or are about to ovulate.
Plan b helps prevent pregnancy before it starts by temporarily delaying ovulation when taken within 72 hours 3 days after unprotected sex. You may have heard that taking emergency contraception like plan b during ovulation makes it less effective and unfortunately that s one rumor that s true more on that below. It will stop the ovulation before it happens. But your paper says if plan b is taken on the day of ovulation or later it appears to have no impact on pregnancy.
Even though emergency contraception is safe and effective the use of plan b continues to generate controversy much of this debate stems from how plan b works specifically. Could it delay it if it was going to come the same day if not the next. Plan b is supposed to work if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex. The day this happened it said 20 but it said she should be entering ovulation in the next couple days as her last period was about 11 15 days ago.