Good morning, I have a problem.
On Saturday, the 17th day of active pills (3rd row) I took a tablet about 23. Around 4:45 a.m., I woke up with stomach pain and diarrhea - the so-called one-day bowel disease.
Apparently 4 hours have passed from taking the pill to the first symptoms, so the tablet should be absorbed, but I am a terrible panicker when it comes to pregnancy - so I prefer to treat it as omitted.
I didn't take the extra pill because I didn't know when it would all end - but once I took the next pill, everything was fine.
I know I had two choices:
- take the "skipped" tablet - although I did not know when the intestinal symptoms would disappear, so I did not do it and then normally take the blister until the end of the active ones, skip the placebo
- consider that this "skipped" tablet is the first day of the placebo and then start a new blister.
Will it be a big mistake if, for example, I think that this one 17th pill was a placebo break, finish this current blister and start another one without a placebo? Will the contraceptive protection also be maintained then? Is it better to consider that the 18th tablet from this blister was the first tablet from the new one?
Help, I do not know what is the best way out of this situation:(
Are the relations held before this situation safeguarded? Now, of course, I will use double protection, but I am very afraid of this time "before". :(