Am i protected on the last active pill of my birth control?
The pill works by tricking your body into actually thinking it is “pregnant” in a way. Not really, but this is the best explanation I can easily suggest. The hormones from the pill synthetically alters your own body chemistry causing the fertilization process to not occur. Normal fertilization has a peak opportunity between the 10-17th day of your cycle. More likely than not you would not conceive anyway, however, if pregnancy is a problem for you then I highly suggest wearing either a male or female condom, or abstaining. Many people know when they ovulate, this is the time you “can” become pregnant, once the egg comes from your ovaries it is fertile, it then “dies”, and is discarded during your “period”, the cycle then resets itself. However, nature has its ways of fooling people, if not we wouldn’t have unwanted pregnancies occurring. Biologically I have read that sperm can live up to 72 hours after ejaculation in the correct environment. However, that is a generalized statement, an
