Do bleeding after few days of emergency contraceptive indicate regular periods? – Dr. Shefali Tyagi

Emergency contraceptives are widely used nowadays and the tie you will want to use is probably when there is a breakage or slippage of condoms while having intercourse, or it is a fertile time and you have had unprotected intercourse and you have missed taking your pills, 2 to 3 days in a row. In those cases, emergency pills can be used to avoid becoming pregnant. Emergency contraceptive is not 100% safe. It can lead to pregnancy in 10% cases. That means it works upto 90%.In many women experience a little bleeding after consumption of Emergency contraceptive pills, usually 3 to 5 days after taking the pill. So you need not worry. But when will you have your next periods, that is a little difficult to answer as you will have bleeding in the middle. So the next periods can happen on the expected date of your last cycle or it can be a month from when the bleeding has happened. So you will have to wait and watch and if you have missed your periods, still do a pregnancy test, just to see that you have not conceived by chance and if it is positive, then be in touch with the doctor. If it is negative then wait on for a week or two and the consult your gynecologist.