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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Were you on birth control?  If so, do you know how/why it failed?[/quote]

On the pill. Best guess is there was a break in daily medication when it ran out between orders. Won't make that mistake again. [/quote]

So you WEREN'T on birth control. You had been, and then you stopped taking it because you ran out, right? Not a judgement, but just clarifying - the pill didn't fail, you just didn't take it as prescribed. [/quote]

I hate to pile on, but it does bother me when people say their birth control failed when it didn't really fail. 
I had a college roommate who used to take a fistful of her pills at a time on Fridays and then cried dramatically about "why me? I did everything right, I was on birth control, why am I one of the unlucky ones" when she got pregnant and had an abortion. I sat there with my mouth shut, and over the years as she retold the story of her "birth control failure", and it really bothers me that it is severe misinformation on a very important topic.
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That's frustrating, but that's not what happened here. A person missed a couple of doses of birth control and probably did not realize it. That's not the same as what you're talking about. I wonder why your friend felt like she needed to lie about birth control, why she wasn't able to take it consistently, etc. [/quote]

No, it was a "break in daily medication when it ran out" - it wasn't like she missed taking one pill she usually took like clockwork and took it the next morning when she realized. A woman knows when her pack has run out. It makes more sense though that it's the DH posting - who knows what really happened. I found it confusing when he said "best guess" but makes sense since it wasn't his birth control. [/quote]

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