The sugar pills in your Birth Control pack are there to help you stay in the habit of taking a pill every day. You don't need to eat them.
Nothing, they are just sugar pills. You still need to take them though. It makes you remember to take your birth control. Nothing, they are just sugar pills. You still need to take them though. It makes you remember to take your birth control.
The sugar pills are just placebo pills, meaning that they have no intended purpose other than to act as place holders. Because birth control pills are to be taken every day, some women need the placebo pills to keep the routine going. They offer no other purpose.
Yes, if you're pregnant, there is no need for birth control pills.
Some pills can affect birth control. If your ill this can sometimes effect birth control too. You need to speak to a medical professional to find out for definite but its possible malaria pills may affect your birth control.
In the US, birth control pills require a prescription from a health care provider.
Yes, but you need a prescription from a doctor or nurse practitioner. Birth control pills are not sold over-the-counter.
Why would you want to? There is really no need to take them at all... other than to keep you in a routine.
If you are taken your birth control daily! Well you can skip the sugar pills that is fine but if you take it daily you should be fine! and if its not the 1st month that you started your birth control if so you need to use an other form of birth control (CONDOMS)!
Birth control pills have to be prescribed by a medical provider. You cannot buy them over the counter.
Sometimes your periods are late or non-existent on the birth control pill. If you have missed pills or are concerned you can take a pregnancy test. Missing birth control pills will decrease the effectiveness of them preventing you from becoming pregnant. The birth control pills will not make the pregnancy test come up positive.
If they are your birth control pills, prescribed by your doctor, you need to make another appointment and listen this time to what your doctor tells you.
There is no need to wean off birth control pills. You can stop "cold turkey" anytime you like. Taking them irregularly has no benefit.