As long as you're remembering to take them, it doesn't seem like there would be other things you're doing that mess with birth control, but this is actually not the case. Birth control pills have a pretty high efficacy rate. We're talking higher than 99 percent with perfect use, according to Planned Parenthood. But perfect use is the key. And perfect use of birth control pills is trickier than you may know.
In fact, birth control pills have a reduced typical first-year efficacy rate of 91 percent due to user error, according to Columbia University's Health Services. You may be taking your pill at the same time every day, but there are some other pretty common scenarios that sneakily mess with your birth control. So common, in fact, that you probably don't even know you're doing them.
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