scigirl

Just doing a survey - how many people know what the morning after pill is.

scigirl

Walross

I voted "unsure" because, while I've heard of it, I'm not terribly familiar with how it works.

Is it anything like the Contraceptimelt ?

Viti

I was under the impression that the morning after pill was a megas dose of regular birth control pills.

Pyrrho

Good impression, but here is something to get the matter a bit more exact:

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/lib...ONTROL/EC.html

CuriosityKills

I learned about the morning after pill in a highschool class called Carreer and Life Management. Our teacher actually told us that we could take extra birth control pills (2 dose of 2 pills 24 hours apart) and it would have the same effect in an emergency situation.

But now I'm not actually sure it would work with all birth control, ad there are two types of pill, multiphase and monophase.

Does anyone know if it would work the same way for both types of pills? Just curious.

Ab_Normal

Back in '99, my husband and I had an obvious condom failure in the middle of my cycle. If I hadn't read an article in the paper that local PP offices were participating in a study of ECP, I don't know what I would have done... as it was, I called in sick, took the bus down to the nearest PP clinic, and got signed up for the study - they were using regular birth control pills. I got a little nauseous in the afternoon, but it was a hot day and I was really nervous, so I can't guarantee it was the pills.

Curiositykills, I think the link Pyrrho posted has the info you're looking for.

CuriosityKills

Thnks, from the looks of thinks you would just be taking a big dose of estrogen.

if your on a monophase pill you can take a large dose of that pill. If your on a multiphase pill, you have to know which pill is the estrogen.

Think link tells you exactly how many pills to take per dose, which makes sense because some pills have higher/lower hormone content. It also mentions which pills should be taken according to brand.

Dune

<quote> learned about the morning after pill in a highschool class called Carreer and Life Management. Our teacher actually told us that we could take extra birth control pills (2 dose of 2 pills 24 hours apart) and it would have the same effect in an emergency situation <quote>
Very much depends on what type of birth control you have. Is it combo estrogen/progesterone, progesterone alone, mono, bi or tri phasic.
But yes, emergency contraception is a larger dose of normal contraception.
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/lib...ONTROL/EC.html has some good info.

RU-486 is actually an antiprogesterone and an abortifacient. If anyone wants to know its exact mechanism of action, I can post it.

Jackalope

Oh, it was probably the pills. I got through the first set of pills without barfing. Then I took the second set, and started blarfing nonstop. I managed to keep them down almost 45 minutes, so the nurse decided I didn't need to take a third dose.

Definitely sucked, but not as much as morning sickness.

seebs

Some of the early coverage of RU-486 called it "the morning-after pill", but I don't know if there are other pills that are also taken the same way, or whether it was confused coverage.