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If you suspect you may be pregnant and are taking a birth control pill like Mircette, it’s wise to stop taking your pills until you’ve done at least one home pregnancy test; this will ensure that there are no risks to the fetus. However, you may be wondering if a home pregnancy kit works by measuring hormone levels, and you’ve been taking synthetic hormones in your Mircette birth control pill: “Will I get an accurate result from my home test?

Pregnancy tests don’t measure estrogen and progestin, the two hormones in combined oral contraceptive pills, so even if you get pregnant while taking an oral contraceptive, you can be confident that the test result will be accurate. Taking Mircette will NOT interfere with your pregnancy test result. This is true whether you are still taking Mircette or have recently stopped taking it because you suspect you may be pregnant.

Mircette is an extremely effective oral contraceptive pill, so it is very unlikely that you will get pregnant while taking it, unless you have stopped taking it for several days. If you have stopped taking Mircette or any other brand of oral contraceptive pill, now is the time to decide if you want to get pregnant now or in the near future. If you don’t want to get pregnant at this point in your life, you should go back on the pills and use backup contraception for a week.

But don’t estrogen levels increase when I’m pregnant and do oral contraceptives, like Mircette, contain estrogen?

Yes, when you are pregnant estrogen levels are higher, but this is NOT the hormone that is measured with a pregnancy test kit. All pregnancy test kits measure beta HCG (a placental hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin). A urine or blood sample can be used to measure beta HCG. Most home urine pregnancy tests will turn positive 10-16 days after conception occurs. If you weren’t taking oral contraceptives, this would be around the time of your first missed period. When taking oral contraceptives, ovulation may have occurred at a more irregular time, so if the pregnancy test is negative, you are not pregnant OR you are less than 14 days pregnant from the date you ovulated. If you were to become pregnant while taking oral contraceptives, normal “withdrawal bleeding” would not occur. – Dr. Rick Jelovsek MD.

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