Im on the pill,and that's the form of protection me and my boyfriend use. I haven't taken it in over a week, but we've still been sexually active- which I know is stupid and now I'm just really scared I'll get pregnant-I wouldnt know what to do im 17
Well first of all, I suggest you stop the sex. You can have breaks of 7 days when you’re on the pill (which would be your pause week). Which pill are you on? That’d be really helpful to know, because some pills allow you to stop for 7 days and some pills don’t have stop-weeks at all.
In general, the rules are like this:
Take the missed pill, no matter when you missed it, take it. Even if that means you have to take the Monday and Tuesday pill (for example) at the same moment.
If you had unprotected sex 72 hours before missing your pill, you can be pregnant. Take a morning-after pill because a pregnancy test won’t work yet!
Use protection for the rest of the month.
Take the missed pill, no matter when you missed it. Just like in week 1. You won’t need extra protection.
Miss a pill in week 3: You have two options here.
Don’t take the pill and have a pause-week, start with a new strip on day 8 of the pause week as always.
Do take the pill and SKIP the pause week.
But seriously, as someone who’s pretty experienced with the pill… always use extra protection. Pills are 99% safe. Some even just 97%.
And for now, I have no idea why you haven’t taken your pill for over a week but I suggest you don’t start a new strip and wait for your period. If it comes, you’re not pregnant, but if you miss it, get a test.
Just keep in mind that stressing over things will probably delay your period, so keep calm <3