does the morning after pill work before your period?
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Using the morning-after pill may delay your period by up to one week. If you don't get your period within three to four weeks of taking the morning-after pill, take a pregnancy test.
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You can take these morning-after pills up to 5 days after unprotected sex, but they work much better if you take them during the first 3 days. Take a pregnancy test if you haven't gotten your period within 3 weeks after taking the morning-after pill.
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Morning-after pills such as Plan B and Ella help prevent you from getting pregnant after having unprotected sex. They work by stopping or delaying ovulation. In doing so, they might also affect the length of your normal menstrual cycle.
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After taking emergency contraceptive pills, your next period should come within the next month, either on time or a week before or after you would normally expect it. (For more information, click here.) If it doesn't come within a week after you expect it, you might consider getting a pregnancy test.
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Emergency contraception — the morning-after pill — is effective if started within 120 hours, or five days. The sooner emergency contraception is started, the better it works.
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Plan B, My Way, Take Action, and other levonorgestrel morning-after pills work best when you take them quickly after unprotected sex. They'll work best up to 3 days (72 hours) after unprotected sex. You can take these up to 5 days (120 hours) after sex, but they don't work nearly as well by day 5.
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If I drink alcohol before or after taking emergency contraceptive pills, will they be less effective? No, there is no effect of alcohol on the morning after pill. Alcohol can indirectly affect contraceptives – e.g. causing you to forget to use them, or putting on a condom incorrectly.
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The morning-after pill he's referring to is sold under the brand name Plan B. The week-after pill, which actually only works for five days after unprotected sex, is called ella. Both are classified by the Food and Drug Administration as contraceptives. Neither is the same as the abortion drug RU486, or Mifeprex.
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For maximum effectiveness, emergency contraception should be started as soon as possible after unprotected intercourse, and within 120 hours. You can take emergency contraceptive pills anytime during your menstrual cycle.
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No — emergency contraception (aka the morning-after pill) can help prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex, not before. The morning-after pill can help prevent pregnancy when taken within five days after unprotected sex.
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Timing — You can take emergency contraceptive pills any time during your menstrual cycle. It does not matter when you had your last period. Both the levonorgestrel pills and estrogen-progesterone pills are most effective when taken as soon as possible after unprotected sex.
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Levonorgestrel can prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex. People sometimes call it the "morning after pill." But you don't have to wait until the morning after sex to take it. In fact, levonorgestrel is more effective the sooner you take it. It is a one-dose regimen: you take one pill.
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We've mentioned how effective our research has shown ellaOne to be, but of course, no contraception is 100%. The only way to know that the morning after pill has definitely worked is for your next period to arrive.
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Emergency contraception (AKA the morning-after pill) works up to five days (120 hours) after unprotected sex. But the sooner you take it, the better it works.
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Since the morning-after pill works better the sooner you take it, it's a good idea to buy it BEFORE you need it. You can keep it in your medicine cabinet and it will be there for you, just in case.
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The short answer is: no. All morning after pills work by delaying ovulation, so if you have ovulated in the last 24 hours then it won't be effective.
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No morning after pill is 100% effective. Research undertaken by the World Health Organisation on Levonorgestrel found that: when taken within 24 hours, it is 95% effective. when taken within 48 hours, it is 85% effective. when taken within 72 hours, it is 58% effective.