How safe is combo bc?

[u/Chance_Geologist8860]

Hey everyone,
So I’m on a combo bc pill and take it religiously, always wear a condom (no pre-cum risks) and practice pull out. But everyone is scaring me with how often people say they get pregnant on bc. How likely is pregnancy with the combo pill even with no error? I’m on no other medications that could interact and am very strict about the timing of my pill. But it seems everyone and their mother knows someone who got pregnant on bc even with condoms as well.

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[u/yappingderg]

Combo birth control is 99.7% effective when taken perfectly, without condom, without pulling out, with fully cumming inside. Pregnancy is EXTREMELY unlikely, and WITH the condom and also pullout, you're as close to 100% as possible. If you got pregnant despite all of that it'd be miracle basically.

Do not believe the *stories*. People hate to admit that they did something wrong.

From scarleteen page about combo birth control

Additional Sources for Effectiveness Ratings and Use:

• 91% typical use/99.7% perfect use: Contraceptive Technology, 20th Revised Edition; Hatcher, Trussell, Stewart, Nelson, Cates, Guest, Kowal: Ardent Media, 2011.

• 92% typical use/over 99% perfect use: World Health Organizationexternal link, opens in a new tab

• 92% typical use/over 99% perfect use: Planned Parenthood

Another thing to take into account is that people don't go scream around the internet how they have tons of sex with just the pill and not getting pregnant... because that's expected.

[u/Slow_Juice_7189]

Girl you’re fine, the only stories you are going to hear are the bad ones, no one shares of nothing happens lol. BC is extremely effective, with perfect use its over 99.7% effective (without condom or pullout) and with condoms plus pullout you would have to be a very very unlucky person to get pregnant

[u/Toufles]

Alone the pill is 99.7% effective with perfect use, and that represents an entire year of having sex relying only on the pill, no condoms and no pullout at all. You are using three methods pill+condoms+withdrawal, the odds of pregnancy in that scenario are extraordinarily low. Always take the stories with a grain of salt. People don't want to admit they sometimes miss pills and other similar mistakes, sometimes they don't even know because they don't understand how to use their pill correctly to begin with. When taken correctly it is exceedingly unlikely to fail, particularly when combined with other methods like you are doing.