Can Plan B Work After 6 Days?

Save your money. Taking the morning-after pill — emergency contraception — more than five days after unprotected vaginal intercourse won't have any effect. Emergency contraception — the morning-after pill — is effective if started within 120 hours, or five days.

Does Plan B work after 5 days?

How long it's been since you had unprotected sex — you have up to five days after unprotected sex to use emergency contraception. Plan B works better the sooner you take it. Plan B doesn't work nearly as well after three days (72 hours). It's better to take ella as soon as you can.

Is it too late for Plan B?

Although emergency contraception is known as the "morning-after pill," you don't necessarily have to take it the morning after. As long as you take it within 72 hours (or three days) after unprotected sex or birth control failure, you should be protected. However, the sooner you take it, the more effective it is!