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A member asked:
How effective are 18 month expired bcp? i heard a birth control pill is a yr expired, it looses 10% effectiveness. am i protected about 85%?
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NO: You can not make a direct correlation like that in dealing with expired medications. Better to not take the expired pills, just throw them out, they cant be trusted!
Answered 11/6/2015
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