Patient's question:
Yesterday, my boyfriend and I accidentally had sex inside the hotel room, and I'm very worried about getting pregnant. In the morning, my boyfriend went to buy birth control pills. I noticed there were two pills inside, and I've never taken them before. I'm very afraid of taking the wrong ones and causing harm to myself. I want to ask how many times you need to take levonorgestrel tablets for birth control?Doctor's answer:
Emergency contraception pills come in two types of packaging: one is a single-pill pack, and the other is a two-pill pack. If it's a single-pill pack, you just need to take one pill. If it's a two-pill pack, you need to take two pills. After sexual intercourse, you can take the first pill as soon as possible, and then wait for 12 hours before taking the second pill on the third day. This is how it works. The purpose of this is mainly to shorten the half-life of the drug, which can reduce the effectiveness of contraception.