Tortuga
February 5th, 2002, 01:54 AM
Hello everyone,
Currently I am on the pill and we don't use condoms, and honestly, it kinda scares me. I know it's a pretty senseless scare with no real basis behind it, because "when used correctly, the pill is 99.5% effective" or whatever, but it still kinda worries me. I mean, what exactly is "used correctly", ya know? Do you have to take it at EXACTLY the same time, every single day? And what exactly is "missing a day"? You know in the directions it says that if you miss a day you can usually just make it up and it's okay? Well, what is "missing a day"? Like, is it missing a day if I don't take it within 2 hours of my time? I take it at 8 in the morning. If I forget and don't take it till noon, is that missing a day? Or is it, "Oh, shoot, it's Tuesday and I forgot to take Monday's pill, so I'll take 2 today"?
The reason I ask is because I've forgotten to take my pill twice this month at 8:00. One Saturday night I stayed the night at my honey's--I wasn't planning to but it got too late and his parents told me to stay--so I didn't get home till about 2:00 Sunday afternoon. So, that was 6 hours late. Then about a week later, I forgot again, and once again took it at about 2:00. Now, does that mean that I've missed two days? And if that's the case, I should be using back-up, shouldn't I? Well, I had sex last night and I didn't. So now I'm going to needlessly worry for the next few weeks, waiting for Aunt Flo to show up.
Now, I know y'all are probably thinking, "If you're that worried, then just use condoms, too!" But do you know how hard that is? Once you've made love without a condom, you'll never want to use one again. But I guess it's just a matter of choice. I shouldn't really be whining about being scared because I'm just on the pill, when I could very easily do something about that and use a condom, too.
What about the rest of you? What is your preferred method of birth control? How many use condoms only, how many are only on the pill, how many use both? Do any of you do the implant thing? What are your thoughts on the whole "missing a day" thing? Just curious about all this stuff.
Thanks,
Tortuga
Currently I am on the pill and we don't use condoms, and honestly, it kinda scares me. I know it's a pretty senseless scare with no real basis behind it, because "when used correctly, the pill is 99.5% effective" or whatever, but it still kinda worries me. I mean, what exactly is "used correctly", ya know? Do you have to take it at EXACTLY the same time, every single day? And what exactly is "missing a day"? You know in the directions it says that if you miss a day you can usually just make it up and it's okay? Well, what is "missing a day"? Like, is it missing a day if I don't take it within 2 hours of my time? I take it at 8 in the morning. If I forget and don't take it till noon, is that missing a day? Or is it, "Oh, shoot, it's Tuesday and I forgot to take Monday's pill, so I'll take 2 today"?
The reason I ask is because I've forgotten to take my pill twice this month at 8:00. One Saturday night I stayed the night at my honey's--I wasn't planning to but it got too late and his parents told me to stay--so I didn't get home till about 2:00 Sunday afternoon. So, that was 6 hours late. Then about a week later, I forgot again, and once again took it at about 2:00. Now, does that mean that I've missed two days? And if that's the case, I should be using back-up, shouldn't I? Well, I had sex last night and I didn't. So now I'm going to needlessly worry for the next few weeks, waiting for Aunt Flo to show up.
Now, I know y'all are probably thinking, "If you're that worried, then just use condoms, too!" But do you know how hard that is? Once you've made love without a condom, you'll never want to use one again. But I guess it's just a matter of choice. I shouldn't really be whining about being scared because I'm just on the pill, when I could very easily do something about that and use a condom, too.
What about the rest of you? What is your preferred method of birth control? How many use condoms only, how many are only on the pill, how many use both? Do any of you do the implant thing? What are your thoughts on the whole "missing a day" thing? Just curious about all this stuff.
Thanks,
Tortuga