Dr. Lucky Sekhon

And if you're not ovulating, you can't really get pregnant, right?

Now, if you miss a few pills, then your brain wakes up and starts sending signals and you might ovulate.

And that's how accidents can happen, right?

So with perfect use, hormonal birth control is really effective.

Now,

If you've been on it for a really long time, your brain might be like, oh, I don't need to think about when to go off of my vacation.

And it might take a few months for it to wake up and start sending that signal out.

But that's not a big deal.

And we usually say give it three to six months.

If after six months you still haven't started ovulating and getting a period, that's the number one clue that you're ovulating is that you're getting a period because

That's happening because the hormone changes from ovulation.

And when the hormones drop, if you don't get pregnant from an ovulation, then the lining breaks down and you get a period.

So if you're not getting a period and it's been six months, it's time to see a doctor.

And it's never wrong, even at the three-month mark, to just get checked out.

Now, some women feel very convinced that the pill caused problems for them.

And something I see every day in my, not every day, but like every week in my practice is women that went on the pill because they were in their teens and they weren't trying to get pregnant and maybe their periods were kind of annoying or heavy and so their doctor said, go on this and they liked it.

It was great.

Maybe they're even skipping their periods because they're not taking the placebo week in the pack.

Totally fine.

Then they get off of it because they're like, oh, I'm 31.