Family Planning Plus

We would recommend contacting the medical provider who prescribed your pill for their advice. 

However, you may want to rule out pregnancy before starting your birth control pills. If you choose to do this, you should abstain from sex or use condoms for every act of sexual intercourse until you’ve taken your eighth birth control pill.

Wait until you get your next period. If your next period is more than seven days late, take a pregnancy test. Repeat the test every two weeks until you start your period or get a postive test result.

Once your period starts, you can start the pill the first Sunday after you begin bleeding.  Do not have sex without a condom until you take your eighth birth control pill.