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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.
Still, you may have questions about how birth control pills could affect your health, the benefits and risks of birth control pills, and newer options available. Yes, you can. Birth control pills were once only packaged as 21 days of active hormone pills and seven days of placebo pills. While taking placebo pills, menstrual period-like bleeding occurs. Today women have many more options â from regimens with 24 days of active pills and four days of placebo pills to regimens that are all active pills.