"it completely worked for birth control. even if i forgot to take it for a couple days, i never had a pregnancy. but the past 2 1/2 years i started to break out badly and i would feel a pain in the opening of my vagina during sex. it literally felt like i had a cut in a certain spot. i had it checked out immediately by my gynecologist and he couldn&#039;t figure it out. i stopped sex for up to a month to see if it was something that needed to heal and it never went away. it was so painful i would almost cry every time and it made me scared to have sex. i never once thought it could be the pill but i recently stopped taking it just to take a break and that pain went away in a week! and i also got pregnant within a month of stopping too."