Check your birth control right now because it might have been switched with placebos in a major fuck-up

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Check your birth control right now because it might have been switched with placebos in a major fuck-up

This is not a drill

I just had to dig my birth control pack out of my bag to have a look because in what might be the scariest pharmaceutical fuck-up of all time, birth control distributor Lupin Pharmaceuticals accidentally put placebo pills in packets instead of the standard pregnancy-preventing pill.

So you know how in a standard pack of birth control, the first three rows are the actual pill and the bottom is a placebo or "sugar pill" meant to be taken when you're on you're period?

Yeeeeah, so the company, which distributes a popular birth control by the name of Mibelas 24 Fe, accidentally rotated the pill packages when they were being filled — which means the placebo pills were where the real one should have been, rending the pregnancy prevention method virtually useless.

"As a result of this packaging error, oral contraceptive tablets that are taken out of sequence may place the user at risk for contraceptive failure and unintended pregnancy," the company said in a totally no duh statement. "The reversing the order may not be apparent to either new users or previous users of the product, increasing the likelihood of taking the tablets out of order."

Basically, if you're on Mibelas 24 Fe, stop right now and contact you're doctor because I'm guessing you don't want a baby right now. Y'know, because of the fact that you were on birth control.

Fortunately, the company claims no one has gotten unintentionally pregnant yet despite this mother of all fuck-ups. And yes, mother pun so intended.

If you discover you're on Mibelas 24 Fe, call your doctor first to figure out a next step, whether that's a pregnancy test or maybe even Plan B if you caught it in time.

Then, call the dumbasses at Lupin Pharmaceuticals by phone at 1-800-399-2561 and get your damn money back.