

About emergency contraception

Our medical team are based in the UK and registered with the General Medical Council and General Pharmaceutical Council.
- You've had sex without using contraception.
- You're worried a condom broke or leaked.
- You missed your regular contraceptive pill.
- You've recently been sick or had diarrhoea, so your regular contraceptive pill may be less effective.
- A hypersensitivity to progestogens
- Severe liver disease
- Acute porphyria
- Difficulties absorbing nutrients or medications
- Severe asthma, and you use oral steroids
- 95% effective taken within 24 hours (1 day) of unprotected sex
- 85% effective taken within 25–48 hours (2 days) of unprotected sex
- 58% effective taken within 49–72 hours (3 days) of unprotected sex
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