Symptoms of the morning after pill or pregnancy?

I had intercourse without a condom and I took the morning-after pill. Since then I have felt nauseous and headache, as if I had pregnancy symptoms. I am unsure if these symptoms are from the morning after pill, because nausea is constant.
Expert answer:

Probably your symptoms (nausea and headache) are side effects of the morning after pillbecause it would still be too early to start feeling the pregnancy symptoms, unless she was previously pregnant.

The first symptoms of gestation begin to emerge from the 5th or 6th week of pregnancy and not a few days after the relationship.

It is therefore likely that seasickness and the Headache arising from the pill of the next day.

The Side effects more frequent use of this emergency contraceptive are nausea and vomiting, but may also occur:

  • Headache;
  • Breast pain;
  • Dizziness;
  • Diarrhea.

These effects are short term and disappear spontaneously in the first 24 hours after using the morning-after pill.

In addition, the pill is well tolerated by most women and exceptional cases more intense undesired reactions occur.

If headache and motion sickness persists, consult the general practitioner or family doctor so that the source of the symptoms is properly diagnosed and treated.

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