Emergency pills are more effective when used before 72 hours. If you are thinking of using it after the stated hours, then you are wrong.
Most women end up getting pregnant despite taking the emergency pills due to the mistakes they often make.
Here are the blunders most ladies are fond of making;
1. Not taking them earlier enough
As mentioned above, the pills bar the pregnancy when taken before the mentioned hours. Failure to do so, this can undoubtedly lead to pregnancy.
"The sooner you take it, the better it’s going to work,” notes Mary Jane Minkin, M.D, a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Yale Medical School in an interview with Self
2. You had just ovulated when you had sex
Chances are that if you had unprotected sex during your fertile windows, the day you ovulated (before and after), you are likely to become pregnant. The pills are only meant to stop pregnancy but they can't stop your ovulation cycles. Your emergency contraceptives can't help you from fending off pregnancy if you had ovulated.
3. You make love often after having the pills
Having the drug doesn't guarantee you ultimate protection. You are putting yourself to trouble for having sexual escapades.
"Ovulation is just delayed, not stopped, so further acts of unprotected sex puts you in the line of fire,” says Nicole White an associate professor of Surgery.