Whats the difference between birth control pills and the morning after pill?

Question

sounds like a dumb question, but i'd like to know the difference, because i'm tkaing the morning after pill now and i got confused when it started talking about taking it instead of the birth control pill

Answer 1

Ask whoever prescribed this for you for more info or ask the pharmacist if it was over the counter.

Morining after pills and some birth control pills may contain the same drug or drugs but are used in different doses in different ways. At most, you take two doses of the the morning after pill 12 hours apart. Birth controls must be taken at about the same time of day continuously, except a week off in some types. The MAP works only for that one unprotected intercourse, birth control pills work continuously as long as taken and are effective usually after 7 days. MAP should be taken ASAP and preferably with 72 hours of the unprotected sex.

Neither will protect you from sexually transmitted disease. And the morning after pill is not an "abortion pill" and will only prevent a pregnancy before it occurs.

Much of this information can be found on the Planned Parenthood and other websites.

Answer 2

Birth control pills are pills that you take on a regular basis to prevent pregnancy. The morning after pill is an emergency contraceptive that you take if you're not on any birth control and you had unprotected sex or the condom broke, etc. Birth control pills and the morning after pills are the same thing, but like I said birth control pills you take on a regular basis and the morning after pill, depending on what brand they are, you may take 5 of them within 5 days of the unprotected sex and then 5 more 12 hours later.

Answer 3

birth control pills are something that are taken regularly and morning after pill is taken after having an intercouse to avoid pregnancy.this is not necessary if the person is not ovulatin. there are only about 3 to 5 days in a month where a woman can get pregnant and in the remaining days this M.A.P is not needed .it is needed only on those 3 or 5 days.
to be noted these pills are a bunch of harmones .and excess harmones might have some side effects.

Answer 4

The morning after pill(Plan B) is basically just a high dose of birth control pills. Before Plan B becamse readily available, docs would just write for 3 or 4 birth control pills at a time for 2 doses. I would assume you can take it along with your birth control pill, since all it does it prevent pregnancy.

Answer 5

the birth control pill prevents you from ovulating, so you can't get pregnant and you take it all month. the morning after pill prevents any fertilized egg from implanting, so you take it the morning after unprotected sex

Answer 6

The BC pill is taken daily throughout the month to prevent pregnancy. The moring after pill is taken to stop a pregnancy when it has already occurred.
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