Past Pull Pills?

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If you have birth control pills that are, say, a month after their expiration date, are they unaffective? I mean... will they still work? Planned Parenthood gave me some, and I don't know if they realized they were a month past or not, but... do you think they'd still work? Or does anyone know?

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[phreakie-teiris.livejournal.com]

Um not sure if they would work, but it'd be best to go back and get a "fresh batch"

[red-spot.livejournal.com]

Probably a good idea.
Thanks.

Similar experience with past date pills

[skabootch.livejournal.com]

yeah, I'd agree with the previous poster. I had some once that I got from my pharmacy in some fluke. I took one, took them back the next day. The pharmacist said that they were probably fine (they were even further past date than a month) but he gave me a new pack of course. So I would start taking them and take the unused ones back as soon as possible and get a replacement for the remainder.

Re: Similar experience with past date pills

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Thanks.

[sulingsi.livejournal.com]

in med school they tell us drugs are good far past the expiration date (i'd say a good 6 months). i've given friends free samples of expired pills a few times but i believe they use condoms as well anyway - that's what i'd do, just use them and condoms. you can go get more as well, i mean if you paid for them you probably can demand some more. :-)

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Well, I didn't pay for them. I got them from Planned Parenthood. It's just one of those nervous things... I've been taking these for a month, I look on the back and they're expired?! Gah! Hopefully they work. If not, I guess I'll find out in about 3 days, when my period starts again.
Thanks.

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