I had sex on the night of the15th (my ovulationDay). It is now the 17th. If taken today, would the plan b pill work even if I already ovulated? Could I be pregnant? What are my chances? Please help!!
Help!!Does plan b pill work if I take it after my ovulation day?
Question posted by Pleasehelpasap on 17 July 2014
Last updated on 21 August 2016
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Trix1
4 Aug 2016
Hi just wondering did you fall pregnant?Thanks
kaismama
17 July 2014
You can't be sure you ovulated. Those trackers are based on the average and only 30% of women are average. We don't even ovulate on the same day each month. So take it and hope you haven't ovulated yet. No it will not do a thing if you already ovulated. I don't know why you girls put yourself thru this stuff when it would be so easy to take birth control pills. They have less then a 1% failure rate.
Pleasehelpasap
17 July 2014
I've been on birth control but haven't taken it in a week or so. I heard that you can get discharge when ovulating. Is that true? Because I saw some discharge last night.
kaismama
17 July 2014
In order to tell the discharge that signals ovulation you have to watch it over months and months. We have different types of discharges through out our hormonal cycle. Its not easy to know when you ovulate for sure, unless you keep track of your basal temp over a long period of time. If I were you, I'd take the plan B, say a prayer, and get back on that birth control. There isn't much else you can do now.
Vero07
21 May 2015
New to this and I'm freaking out about being pregnant. I ovulated Wednesday and had sex Thursday supposedly he was inside me and when he pulled out I felt something dripping between my tights and everything algo in the sheets after 2 hours I took the Plan B pill will that work for me?
Vero07
21 May 2015
New to this and I'm freaking out about being pregnant. I ovulated Wednesday and had sex Thursday supposedly he was inside me and when he pulled out I felt something dripping between my tights and everything algo in the sheets after 2 hours I took the Plan B pill will that work for me?
kaismama
21 May 2015
You don't know for sure when you ovulate. Those trackers are a guess. Plan b will not help if you already ovulated.
uirhs
9 Nov 2015
"I don't know why you girls put yourself thru this stuff "
I'm sorry (or not) but let me tell you something. You don't know what these girls have been doing, you don't know if they were taking birth control pills or not, you don't know whether what happened was that the condom broke or not, you don't know if they were raped. So it would be nice of you if you considered suppressing those thoughts of yours because maybe, just maybe, "we girls" are suffering from the anxiety and fear that comes from undesired unprotected sex without wanting to.
Making girls feel guilty for what could have been an accident is not something a proffessional should have been doing in all her years of working. I hope you haven't.
Kivimakic
21 Aug 2016
If you take it after you've ovulated it can still work, but instead of preventing ovulation altogether, it can prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall. The problem after taking after ovulation is that the effectiveness falls from 80% into the 40% range. But it's still worth a shot, especially being so available.
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