Plan B Birth Control

Plan B birth control is not a type of birth control in the customary sense. Rather than taking it prior to conception for avoiding the pregnancy, it is taken later than an unprotected sexual meet. Whether the meet happened because of poor planning or failure of contraception, it is essential to use a type of emergency contraception (EC) if you do not desire to get pregnancy.

Plan B is one of the most extensively recognized forms of EC. As undefended sex can take place anytime, EC has to be used within a definite amount of time to be efficient. It is suggested to visit your healthcare supplier and have an instruction on hand.

Plan B function best when taken between twenty-four and seventy-two hours after the sexual meet occurred. Efficiency of the pills goes down after twenty-four hours and persists to drop until it turns out to be fundamentally unsuccessful.

How Plan B Birth Control Functions

Plan B is a high dosage of hormones. Levonorgestrel is the single hormone in Plan B; estrogen is not there in this type of emergency contraception. Conception and Pregnancy can be banned in two methods with Plan B.

• Plan B ends the release of an egg from the ovary or ends sperm from mixing with the egg.
• Plan B ends an egg from affixing to the uterus.

The initial pill should be taken when ever possible. Take the next pill in your pack twelve hours following the first dose.

Essential Facts

Plan B birth control is up to eighty-nine percent efficient when used properly. On the other hand, there are some particulars that everybody who uses Plan B birth control must remember.

• It does not avoid AIDS or HIV, or any other sexually transmitted disease.
• It must not be used as a regular type of birth control.
• Do not take if you are sensitive to any ingredients.
• Your subsequent period may be longer or shorter, heavier or lighter, or later or earlier than usual.
• If your period is above a week late, go for a pregnancy test. It is likely that you may be pregnant.

Be sure you do not puzzle Plan B with the pill called RU-486, the “abortion” pill. Plan B does not have an effect on an existing pregnancy, nor will it end the pregnancy.

Side Effects

Side effects are general with any prescription medicine. Those using Plan B most often get the subsequent symptoms:

• Nausea/vomiting
• Headache
• Dizziness
• Abdominal pain
• Tiredness
• Breast tenderness