Missed a Pill? Here’s what you do

Dr Linda Calabresi

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Dr Linda Calabresi

GP; Medical Editor, Healthed

Dr Linda Calabresi

 

It’s not an uncommon scenario.

The urgent phone call from a female patient who has just realised she’s missed taking her daily oral contraceptive. What should she do?

For the treating clinician dealing with this issue, it’s useful, first of all, to make the distinction between taking a pill late and missing it altogether, said sexual health physician Dr Terri Foran in a recent Women’s and Children’s Health podcast.

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