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A member asked:
When do you take the white pills for birth control? are these the real pills or the placebo pills?
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Depends: all pill packs vary the color between the active pills and the placebo pills so you can't go by color alone. In a 21-28 day pack the last 4-7 pills are usually the placebo pills
Answered 6/5/2017
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