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Does day light savings can effect my bcp?

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Dr. Antoanella Calame answered

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Continue: Continue to take your birth control pills regularly. For example: if you took your bcps before day light savings time around 9 P.M. Then still take them at 9 P.M. After day light savings time. An hour won't be detrimental to the effects of birth control.

Answered 11/7/2013

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