So you can technically get pregnant at any time of the month, so why throw in a couple placebo pills? What do they do exactly, and can you get pregnant during that week of taking them?
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Sorry, just to be a stickler they aren’t placebos. Placebos are treatments presented as legitimate which do not contain any active ingredient (or process in the case of physical placebos) and whose sole effect relies on belief in its efficacy.
The extra pills in oral contraceptives are sold with express consumer knowledge that they contain no active ingredient. The “sugar pills“ simply allow for habit forming whilst having a break in hormone delivery in order to have a period if the woman so desires. It’s easier to remember to take a pill every day than to remember to take one a day for 3 weeks and have one week off.
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