If birth control pills are 99% effective, why do I know so many women who got pr!
Question: Most birth control pills claim to be 99% effective, but I know a LOT of women who got pregnant when they say they were using birth control pills. How can this be?
Answers: Most birth control pills claim to be 99% effective, but I know a LOT of women who got pregnant when they say they were using birth control pills. How can this be?
The pill is 99% effective when used PERFECTLY. Some women take the pill as prescribed, but still get pregnant. Nothing's foolproof. They account for the 1% risk.
Many others, though, take the doses at various times, or miss doses altogether. This really raises a woman's pregnancy risk. Still others don't realize that antibiotics can interfere with oral contraceptives, and don't use backup birth control after taking them. And probably a lot of women don't know that if they deal with gastric upset (throwing up or diarrhea) after taking a dose of the pill, it may not work as designed.
Typical use of the combination birth control pill has an 8% failure rate.
Overweight women are at higher risk of unexpected pregnancy while on the pill, too. The hormones may stay in their systems for a shorter amount of time.
Oh, and the mini-pill (progestin-only pill) is a little less effective than the combination pill.
4 babies later, 4 different kinds of birth control pills, and I took them religiouly (every one of them the same time every day with out fail) Some times people are just more pron to babys on birth control. (When we concieved baby number 3 that is the kind of pill I was on) Good luck
Because they weren't taking them properly. The Pill MUST be taken at the same time EVERY DAY to be effective. Many, many women are not good about taking them on schedule. And did you know that most antibiotics will make the Pill ineffective while they're being taken together? It's true! Most women do not know this, so whenever a woman is on an antibiotic to treat and infection, she just use condoms in addition to the Pill.
Some women, the Pill just plain doesn't work for them, like the previous poster!
They may have missed a pill or took them at different times each day. You are supposed to take them at the same time each day, and for some women, they don't always follow those directions.
If the pill is not taken at the same time everyday, and if the pill is skipped then the pills are not as effective as they should be. For the pills to be effective, they must be taken the same time everyday and not skipped.
99% effectively if taken properly. most of those people who got pregnant while they were on the pill were probably on antibiotics or not taking them properly
cause they didnt take regularly like they are supposed to...NEVER forget a day and u dont have to worry abt having a baby.
Plus other reasons but that is the number 1 reason why.....
The pill is 99% effective *when used properly.* If you don't take it at the same time every day, skip a day, skip more than a day, or take any antibiotics at the same time, that rate of effectiveness goes down.
Antibiotics in particular are a problem -- we use a lot of them for other things, and lots of women don't know that they can sort of knock the pill out as well. So if you've been given an antibiotic you need to keep taking the pill, to stay in the habit, but you ALSO need to use other things.
It's a lot to keep track of, and sometimes people goof. The problem is, those goofs affect the effectiveness of the pill.
because of errors when taking them, it's easy to think you are taking them properly but the slightest thing can stop them being effective a few are
sickness
some antibiotics
having loose poops or diarrhea
drinking too much ...alcohol or just normal fluids (I'm talking excessive amounts ... 5-6 liters plus, everyone needs 3ish liters per day)
taking at the wrong time of day (some rely on a more precise timing than others)
GOOD LUCK
because if you don't follow the rules perfectly, that percentage goes down. they must be taken everyday at the same time. and like others have said, the pill doesn't work on everyone.
100% minus 99% is 1% and THAT is ONLY if used exactly as prescribed!
To go against the prescription is to lessen the effectiveness of the pill.
Therefore people CAN get pregnant on the pill!
Birth control pills are only 99% eaffective when taken properly! women tend to forget to take a tablet one day at there normal time and then take it later on which has no effect therefore making the women pregnant