Frustrated and need help...

**Nightmistress** · 10-22-2011 10:19 PM

Ok, so I am a 19 year old Female. I started my cycle last Saturday ( That Morning). After wards, that afternoon, I had unprotected sex with my boyfriend. It just happened. I managed to cum, but he did not. But I knew that precum can get someone pregnant. had to go up to MEPS ( Building to enlist for the United States Army. )that Monday, so I took the "Next Choice" Emergency pill, to be on the safe side. Now, today, we had sex, but it was protected. I came but he did not. we ended up falling asleep together and the condom came off of him. we ended up cuddling close and woke up and he entered me before we thought of what we were doing. He pushed into me maybe 4 times.. if that.. He swears he was no where close to coming in me. but I'm terrified. if I took the second half of the Pill on Monday in the early hours of the morning ( 1 am..) and it's my last day of my period.. am I safe?

I read up that Next choice, I quote: " Next Choice is less likely to work if you have unprotected sex again during the same menstrual cycle in which you took Next Choice or if you had it earlier in the cycle." If today is my last day, should I take it again? or would it still be in my system? Any help is appreciated..

-Nightmistress.

**ItsASecret** · 10-22-2011 11:00 PM

Morning after pills pretty much wipe out any remote possibility of being pregnant, they are extremely effective. DO NOT take morning after pills as though they were like any other method of birth control though. It is an emergency form of contraceptive, one that you would only take if you absolutely must. One pill will mess your cycles up because they contain several times the dose of one of the chemicals in regular birth control. That one pill is likely going to throw your menstrual cycle off for a month if not more more, it is just what happens when that much of that chemical is put into your system. It is not recommended at all to repeatedly take morning after pills. A condom without semen and with morning after pill is a substantial amount of protection. Your best bet would be to look into a regular form of birth control be it normal birth control pills, IUDs, patches, shots...whatever you choose would be a much better method of birth control.

**Nightmistress** · 10-23-2011 06:40 AM

I'll be looking into getting the shot, within the week.

But to make this clear, since I took the second half of the pill on Monday, I should be good right? It was my last day of my cycle and that worries me. He said he was no where near ready to cum, but is there a possibility that his body was already ready? when he entered me the second time, there was no condom. it came off, right before we had sex.

**ItsASecret** · 10-23-2011 09:59 AM

Taking it at any point in your cycle will literally obliterate the chance of pregnancy IF you take the pill within 72 hours of having intercourse. The whole "take it at this time in your cycle" is a recommended time, a person may have circumstances when they need that pill immediately because they are in a serious situation (example would be rape) and they may not be taking that pill on the last day of their cycle...simply because timing is not always spot on and people do not have sex based on what point they are in their cycles. So taking the pill in the first place is going to do the intended job it was set out to do. The failure rate of the morning after pill if taken exactly as directed is about 0.1-0.01%...so extremely low.

Whatever you do, do not take more pills than you need to. If the instructions say "take one pill when needed" then take one pill, not 1/2 not 3/4, the whole pill when it says to. If it says 1/2 a pill then that is how you go, basically whatever the instructions say.

As for the worry of entering you, the worry comes from semen. A penis touching your vagina does not equate the possibility of pregnancy, there needs to be the sperm entering you. The last day of your cycle means your body is at such low hormonal levels (ovulation is the 'prime' time for pregnancy) that the chance of pregnancy alone without any form of protection is still very low. The chance of you being pregnant after taking the morning after pill, having no semen involved, no ovulation, and taking another morning after pill is very very low. If you want to put your mind at rest you can take a pregnancy test in a couple weeks. Taking one tomorrow is not enough time it needs to be after a couple of weeks.