Contraception

Yes, certain antibiotics and other prescription medicines can reduce the effectiveness of your contraceptive pill, putting you at a higher risk of becoming pregnant.

Always tell your doctor or pharmacist if you’re taking the contraceptive pill when you’re prescribed new medication.

If your pill is affected, use a barrier method of contraception like a condom until your medication has stopped

NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) advise that doctors, nurses and pharmacists should:

"Ensure arrangements are in place to provide a course of oral emergency contraception in advance, in specific circumstances where the regular contraceptive method being used, for example, condoms or the pill, is subject to 'user failure'."

This means that your local pharmacy or sexual health clinic should always have the morning after pill in stock, just in case you need to use emergency contraception right away.

If you don't have any emergency contraception on hand and you need some right away, you can use the NHS Service Finder to locate a pharmacy or clinic near you. Although online pharmacies stock the morning after pill, online orders will not be fast enough.

As an online pharmacy, we keep the morning after pill available so you can stock up in advance, this means that you can keep a pill at home and take it as soon as you need to.

Condoms are very effective when it comes to protecting yourself from unwanted pregnancies or STDs.

Condoms are 98% effective at preventing pregnancy when used correctly.

This means that when 100 women use a condom correctly during sex only 2 of these women will become pregnant. Those are some really good odds!

When it comes to STDs, condoms are the only method of contraception that will protect you from picking up any nasty diseases.

Although they’re not 100% effective, condoms are by far the best way to protect yourself from STDs such as chlamydia, genital herpes, and gonorrhoea while having sex.

Be smart, be safe, and use a condom!

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Condoms are one of the most reliable ways to protect yourself from unwanted pregnancy and the only way to protect yourself from sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

When used properly, condoms can protect from STIs like chlamydia, HIV, and gonorrhoea.