What to Do If You Miss a Birth Control Pill

Birth control pills should be taken every day, at the same time—but how precise do you have to be? It depends on the type of pill: for some, you have

August 25, 2015 · 1 min · 72 words · Anita Blair

For others, you only have a window of a few hours.

The stricter one is the progestin-only pill, or mini-pill.

Those need to be taken within a 3-hour window each day.

Combination pills, with both estrogen and progesterone, are more forgiving.

For a single missed pill, you’re free to just take a double dose the next day.