That means if you had sex on a Friday night, you can wait until Monday to take your first two pills. You then wait twelve hours and take two more pills. Experts recommend taking ECPs with an anti-nausea drug such as Gravol since a sudden hormone increase in your system commonly causes nausea and vomiting.
Some women experience breast tenderness, as well.
You should get your period within ten to twenty-one days of taking ECPs, and your cycle will return to normal thereafter. As of this writing, there may be specially packaged emergency contraception pills to make the process easier. Emergency Contraception Pills are not the same thing as chemical abortion. They prevent conception instead of inducing miscarriage. These trial results show, simply, that there are fewer side effects with mifepristone than with the current high-dose OC method.