You can certainly take an extra Birth Control pill without causing any problems. However, your question suggests that you think you're not protected during the placebo pills. That is not true. If you have taken the previous pills in the pack correctly, you are still protected during the placebo week. Please contact your health care provider to get a better understanding of how the pill works and the level of protection you can expect from it.
If you've been on birth control for over 4 weeks then you're protected against pregnancy.
Yes you will still be protected during the placebo pills week as long you took your pills everyday at the same thorughout active pills. Be sure that you have been on birth control for at least 3 months before you attempt to do so.
You will remain protected from pregnancy even through your placebo week, if you take your active birth control pills everyday at the same time(including being on birth control for 2 months.In other words, if you take your birth control everyday at the same time, you will consistently be protected from pregnancy.
To change from the birth control pill to NuvaRing, insert the ring during the placebo week or any time before. You will have immediate protection as long as you inserted the ring on or before the day you would have started your next pack of birth control pills.
Nothing. The placebo is not part of the birth control cycle. It has no purpose except to help keep you in your routine, and keep track of your pill schedule.
If you take the BCP everyday as directed you are 99.5% protected from pregnancy.
During the last week of your pills you are taking placebo pills. There are no hormones in placebo pills that have hormones to protect you from pregnancy. However, if you have been properly taking your birth control every day at the same time, during this week you will start your menstrual cycle, and you will still be protected from pregnancy. All you have to do is finish all the pills in the pack, each month. Also, you do not have to take the placebo pills because there aren't any hormones in them. You must however, not get off track starting your birth control, you must start your new pack of pills the same way you began taking the birth control.
usually if you take the birth control for a week straight without missing any you will be protected. even if you use birth control it isn't 100% effective, so you should use condoms to be safe.
You should still get a period while taking birth control pills. Your period usually occurs during the placebo week of pills. If the birth control was not taken properly, then there may be a chance of pregnancy, which delays your period. If you have not gotten your period during the placebo week, your should take a pregnancy test.
Skipping your period by taking extra birth control pills or fewer placebo (sugar) pills lowers, not raises, your risk of pregnancy.
No, Yaz contains a mixture of active and placebo pills.
If a girl has been on the birth control before of the same dosage of hormones then yes. However if there is changes in the dosage it is best to consult the information package or check the birth controls website.