Taken up to 5 days after sex they can prevent pregnancy.
Now if you are a student of this blog then you’ll be experts at putting condoms on, even when drunk: but sometimes s**t happens.
If you’ve had sex without a condom, or missed a pill, or not used any form of contraception at all, and you have had penis in vagina sex, then I’m not going to lecture you or give you a hard look 😐
But I will tell you about Emergency Contraception (also known as the Morning After Pill or in the UK as the Levonelle One Step or Ella One (brand name)).
It is one pill, taken as soon as possible after sex. It prevents pregnancy if taken quickly enough after unprotected sex, ideally within 24 hours but up to 120 hours. It is over 95% if taken within 24 hours.
It works by stopping any fertilized eggs from implanting in the womb.
In the UK, they are available for free from
- Your doctor (GP)
- Your local Young Person’s Clinic or Brook
- Your local Reproductive Sexual Health service (or ‘Family Planning Service’)
- Your local NHS walk-in service
- Some GUM services
- Pharmacists (some give it free to teenage girls, google ‘Free Emergency Contraception Scheme’ followed by your local area it to find out eg Sheffield, or Wandsworth)
- Pharmacies can also sell it to women over 16, it costs £26
- A&E departments (if you have tried getting it from everyone else)
For your nearest service go here
Some areas are starting to prescribe a new emergency contraception pill which is effective up to 120 hours after unprotected sex. You could also have an IUD fitted within 120 hours of unprotected sex at a clinic.
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I had sex on d last day of my period we used a condom and he didn’t cum too. But a day after i started having headaches and cramps. Am i pregnant?
It’s incredibly unlikely that you are pregnant from this. There’s more here about it Am I Pregnant? you might also be interested in this article which goes into more detail about how effective condoms are (very) Anxious About Getting Her Pregnant
Hello Bish i really need ur help if u read this plss help i really need a answer hope u can reply to this asap thank u!!
So me and my bf wanted to do it but he didn’t have a condom and we just wanted to see what it felt like. So we just put it in for a few seconds. I was on top of him I only kind of went up and down two or three times gently, and he was only inside me 10-20 (?) Seconds But i swearr to god I was the only one who had pre-cum and Also he didn’t cum we stop. Before we did that he took a bath first and I washed incase, My period was irregular I started having a period with may 7 and it ended with may 13 we did our session on may 23 and I also know that I will have a long time period. So I took the contraceptive pill when may 28 I started the first pills and I always tracked the day. I know that I have been taking pills for up to 28 days and now I have also watched on YT for 16 days that when the white pills are used up, I will have a period, but I still have 5 days which is 5 pills to take before the brown pills to start my period but i only have 3 days left and i should have a period which is june 17 the date. Today is June 14 plss bish I’m nervous I can’t sleep well either because I’m afraid I’ll be able to delay my period I hope you can help me thank you very much for this article and I found you thank you !!!!
Hiya. I’m afraid I can’t give you much advice about the pills you’re taking – you might want to speak to the nurse / doc / pharmacy who gave them to you. What I can say is that it’s unlikely that sex without ejaculation will lead to pregnancy. More about this here Am I Pregnant?
I’m just worried me and my boyfriend wanted to try having sex but I’m not on birth control yet and we just wanted to see what it felt like and he used a condom correctly and everything and he was only In me for 20 secs he didn’t finish inside me or anything but I took plan b the next day just to be safe I’m not sure if there’s anything I should be worried about
I don’t think there’s anything to worry about there. The condom would have protected you (they are 98.5% effective, which means that if a couple had regular sex with condoms over the course of a year then there is a 1.5% chance they would get pregnant) and the plan b would also have prevented a pregnancy. There’s more about fertility here Fertility Explained – chances of getting pregnant