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1 Start your pills today. 2  If you start your pills today, you should use a backup method of birth control (condoms with spermicide) during the first 7 days of the pill package. 3  Birth control pills will start to protect you from pregnancy after the first week, if you take them correctly.
A female reader asks how long it takes for birth control pills to become effective and how to decrease her risk of pregnancy. | January 29, 2009. Question: When I first started taking the birth control pill last year, it was just to make my period regular â I wasnât having sex.