Birth Control Pill question

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Hello ladies,

Two weeks ago I decided to start the birth control pill because of my heavy periods. I´m using Microgynon 30. Now, the doctor advised me to take the pill in the morning after breakfast the same time every day.
The doctor also told me to take the first pill on the first day of my menstruation. Today I started menstruating at about 13 o clock and so I took the first pill at 15 o clock.
SO I took the first pill at 15 o clock today because I was supposed to take my first pill on the first day of my menstruation. I didn't know if the pill would still be immediately safe if I didn't take it right the same day, but the next morning.

Is it OK if I take my second pill tomorrow morning at around 9 o clock, and then keep that rythm every day? Because I don't want to take it at 15 o clock every day from now on...
This means the time span between my first and second pill is 18 hours instead of 24 hours.

I know this sounds like a stupid question but I forget to ask my physician....

Don't know if I made the right choice or that I should have waited until the next morning.


Thank you

Not a health professional, but I don't believe there should be any problem in one small time gap like that.

I assume that the medication came with the standard instruction leaflet ?

If you don't want to read that for some reason, then there's always this....
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=using+the+pill+microgynon+30

Been there, done that. Can´t find the answer...

The top link from Google search explains it.
The instruction manual probably does as well.

Yeah I´ve been searching on google for hours now and the instruction manual too but I can´t find the answer

I hope it did it the right way and that´s it safe staight away...

It takes a few days for you to build up to the desired drug concentration in your blood because it decomposes and is excreted over time, and then the next dose is taken at a slightly higher base level boosting the blood concentration even more so forth and so on. This eventually levels out according to a formula that relates the drug half life, dosage, and frequency of taking a dosage. (look up Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics).

Moral of the story, yes it is fine for you to take the second dose less than 24 hrs but more than 12 hrs after the first.

Thanks
I never really got want they meant with: take the pill in the first day of your menses then it's immediately safe.
So basically, if I would have taken it tomorrow morning, it wouldn't have been safe it all?
Because it says: take the pill on day 2-7 of of your menstruation and you won't be protected until after a week.

I don't really see what counts as a first day of the menstruation. Does that mean you have to take the first pill within 24 or 12 hours after bloodflow starts?


But thanks for partially answering my question

It assuming you are not having sex during you menstrual cycle. They are also assuming you have a 7 day cycle.
This allows 7 days needed to build up the concentration of hormone in your body to prevent pregnancy before you have sex again.

If you take birth control pills for reasons other than preventing pregnancy (I took them to control my horrible periods, not birth control as I have never had sex) the start date does not matter, only that you take them every day, about the same time each day.