To prevent pregnancy, always take this medicine exactly as described in this leaflet or as your doctor, family planning nurse, or pharmacist has told you. Check with your doctor, family planning nurse, or pharmacist if you are not sure. Take Ethinylestradiol, Gestodene every day for 21 days. Ethinylestradiol, Gestodene comes in strips of 21 pills, each marked with a day of the week.
- Take your pill at the same time every day.
- Start by taking a pill marked with the correct day of the week.
- Follow the direction of the arrows on the strip. Take one pill each day until you have finished all 21 pills.
- Swallow each pill whole, with water if necessary. Do not chew the pill.
- Then have seven pill-free days.
- Then start your next strip.