Anyone experienced this? Because I am. My boyfriend and I had sex with a condom but it ripped at around 9pm Thursday and I took it the pill at midnight so 3 hours after the incident and I think I'm ovulating at least I think I am I don't get my period within 3 to 5 days and I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who has this problem or had this problem and would like to help me because even though I took the pill and did tons of research about taking the pill during ovulation, I did not quite find a lot of experiences about it. So will the pill still prevent pregnancy if I am ovulating at this moment?
How effect is the pill during ovulation??
Question posted by HELPASAP on 19 Oct 2012
Last updated on 24 January 2018
Added 19 Oct 2012:
The "pill" that in talking about is the Plan B Step One aka the morning after pill. I took this within 3 hours of the inccident. And I want to know if it works just as well if I'm ovulating and would love to know if it will push back my period since my period don't come till 3 to 5 days. Or will it come at regular time? And I know I heard that you don't ovulate until mid cycle but then I also heard it can just depend on the persons body we're all different and can ovulate at anytime. But I just really need to know if the Plan B Step One pill works effectively during ovulation?
Added 19 Oct 2012:" Plan B One Step" AKA morning after pill. Sorry.
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3 Answers
Anonymous37
13 Dec 2016
@helpme97... Are you pregnant?
DzooBaby
19 Oct 2012
IF you have ovulated and the egg becomes fertilized during sex, Plan b will not terminate that pregnancy. Plan b doesnt always work. Odds are favorable for you since you took Plan b in the correct amount of time after the contraception failure. Another thing, it is very difficult for a woman to know when she is ovulating. Unless you are doing a morning basal temp AND checking your cervical mucus daily plus watching the calendar, then it is near impossible to be correct about when you ovulate. You cant "feel" ovulation. Here is how menstruation works:
Day 1 starts with the first day of your period. This occurs after hormone levels drop at the end of the previous cycle, signaling blood and tissues lining the uterus (womb) to break down and shed from the body. Bleeding lasts about 5 days.
Usually by Day 7, bleeding has stopped. Leading up to this time, hormones cause fluid-filled pockets called follicles to develop on the ovaries. Each follicle contains an egg.
Between Day 7 and 11, one follicle will continue to develop and reach maturity. The lining of the uterus starts to thicken, waiting for a fertilized egg to implant there. The lining is rich in blood and nutrients.
Around Day 14 (in a 28-day cycle), hormones cause the mature follicle to burst and release an egg from the ovary, a process called ovulation.
Over the next few days, the egg travels down the fallopian tube towards the uterus. If a sperm unites with the egg here, the fertilized egg will continue down the fallopian tube and attach to the lining of the uterus.
If the egg is not fertilized, hormone levels will drop around Day 25. This signals the next menstrual cycle to begin. The egg will break apart and be shed with the next period.
The average menstrual cycle lasts 28 days. But normal cycles can vary from 21 to 35 days. The amount of time before ovulation occurs is different in every woman and even can be different from month to month in the same woman, varying from 13 to 20 days long. Learning about this part of the cycle is important because it is when ovulation and pregnancy can occur. After ovulation, every woman (unless she has a health problem that affects her periods or becomes pregnant) will have a period within 14 to 16 days.
Some women use a calandar method to try to avoid conceiving but it is not very effective because a womans cycle is not always the same every month. It is easier to use calendar method to try to GET pregnant. Plan b is a high dose of hormones designed to disrupt the follicle maturation process. Plan b helps to inhibit fertilization but it also works to inhibit sperm transport and it alters the uterine lining to help prevent implantation but it wont stop an implantation if it has already occured.
Somehow it always seems easier to get pregnant when you are NOT trying than when you are! You are most fertile and most likely to get pregnant 12 to 24 hours after ovulation.
A man's sperm can live for up to three days in a woman's body. The sperm can fertilize an egg at any point during that time. So if you have unprotected sex a few days before ovulation there is a chance of becoming pregnant. Hopefully you were within the time frame for Plan b to work.
DzooBaby
19 Oct 2012
Another way to help avoid pregnancy when using condoms is to use a spermicidal gel or foam that way if the codom does break or leak, you have the spermicidal back up protecting you. Just be sure to get one that is compatible with latex condoms. You dont want to use anything oil or petroleum based because that can break down condoms.
kaismama
19 Oct 2012
We'll have to keep this for the many many girls who have no idea. Thanks for being Mom. You know there's a method of birth control you never hear about, a diaphragm with the spermacide. Its better then a condom, but no hormones involved. I used it when I was breast feeding.
HELPASAP
19 Oct 2012
Thank you! I hope I wasn't ovulating at the time since I'm close to getting my period I could tell when I'm within a week of getting my period because my breast gets sore and I tend to break out this is normal for me.
Brand295
30 Sep 2016
I took the morning after pill within 72 hours... then could feel that ovulation pain in the one side the next day. My fiance n I had relations thinking it would be fine since I took the pill... ad now here I am... 5 weeks pregnant again with a 5 month old. WHAT THE CRAP!!!
helpme97
7 Oct 2016
Need serious help... my fiancé and I aren't ready to have kids yet and when we were having relations, the condom broke and he came inside me. I took the Plan B pill roughly an hour after the incident. The last day of my period was roughly the 22-23 of this past September. I need to know my chance of getting pregnant. My next period is due around October 15-17 and it's only the 6th.. help me.
Inactive
16 Oct 2016
Did you end up being pregnant?
Inactive
16 Oct 2016
Did you end up being pregnant?
Bliss q
26 Nov 2016
Hello, I do not entirely agree that you do not feel ovulation. There are specific signs that women notice during the peak of their cycle relates to ovulation. And I for one have monitored my cycle to know that those signs are classically related to the ovulation phase of my cycle.
They include change on mucus secretion , certain slight abdominal pain for some like me it can be very painful for about 24-48hrs just around the ovulation. Its termed 'Mittelschmerz'. A few other women have various signs they "feel" during ovulation
So yes, one can and do feel it when ovulating if you have monitored properly
Wilder1978
16 April 2017
Did you end up being pregnant?
s rios
10 Aug 2017
I just want to add that, yes, it is possible to feel ovulation. After I turned 40 I started cramping about mid cyle and expelling (what I believe to be) the cervical mucus plug. My OBGYN confirmed that this was in fact what was happening.
Hannybabe
1 Sep 2017
It is possible to know when you ovulate. I have suffered from ovulation pain for the last 20 years. It's very uncomfortable and incredibly accurate!! It usually happens 12-14 days before my period starts though! Your pill taken 3 hours later should be ok. It will prevent any possible fertilised egg implanting! Hope this helps ☺️
Just another
12 Sep 2017
If you know your body, you CAN and WILL feel ovulation.. Before kids I couldn't but after 3, I can tell exactly when it's happening! The consistancy down there changes to super wet and cramping happens from whichever side it popn out of. Only about 10% of women can feel ovulation. Sometimes it sucks but I guess it helps me know what's up!
kaismama
19 Oct 2012
Ok, here's my daily statement, You don't ovulate on the pill. That's how it works. If you take it every day at about the same time, you won't ovulate, ever. It also decreases the amount of lining in your uterus, so that it creates a hostile environment on the off chance that you did ovulate. Then it thickens the mucous in your cervix so that sperm have a hard time getting through them. The pill if about 99% effective if you take it right. When you take the sugar pills, you have a period because of the hormones being withdrawn. This does not mean you ovulated.
HELPASAP
19 Oct 2012
The pill that I'm talking about is the Plan B One Step. Sorry!
kaismama
19 Oct 2012
Oh, changes things, but why aren't you on a reg birth control pill? Plan B should work, you took it plenty soon enough. It will stop the ovulation before it happens. It does have a higher failure rate then birth control pills and the manufacturer recommends you use a reg birth control and only use it if something happens like you were using condoms and it broke. It will mess up your body for a while, becomes its a massive dose of hormones, I can't answer about your period because anything could happen.
HELPASAP
19 Oct 2012
You said it will stop ovulation before it happens but what if Im already ovulating?
kaismama
19 Oct 2012
If you've ovulated and an egg is in the fallopian tube, you probably have a real chance of getting pregnant. I went to the manufacturers web site and they didn't mention anything about it.
HELPASAP
19 Oct 2012
Thank you. I did some research and I read experinencs like mine and none of them came out pregnant:)
Unknwn
7 Aug 2013
yes but can it work duirng ovulation, not before but during like on the 14th day
BetterSafeThanSorry
25 April 2015
Kaismama, I am so glad you answered this, I have appreciated your answers in the past. Just to clarify, I have a similar question. I just had unprotected sex 16 days after my period (and he ejaculated, for lack of a better word). This is a fertile time BUT I have been taking my pills on time. So what im asking is are my pills any less effective during ovulation as they are the rest of my cycle??
JessDD
23 June 2017
Question, I have being on the pill for almost 2 years now with a 5 month break almost 8 months ago. I never miss a pill, but I noticed my body still does what its supposed to do when we ovulate, is this normal? turbid whiteish or yellow discharges when my period calendar WomanLoG says I should be ovulating. I still get hormonal acne when I am ovulating since teenager instead of when I am on my period.
does this mean the pill is not working on me? My doc said is normal but is just so scary to have sex in those days AND in those days is when I want to have it more, I am married btw but hell will freeze before I let myself get pregnant
YEMJI THERESE
24 Jan 2018
Can i get pregnat 21 days after my period in a 28 day cycle?
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