HELP !! Have I messed up my birth control?

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This will probably sound dumb to a lot of people but here goes...I have been taking my birth control pills for  27 days , but now that I just got my 2nd pack I am wondering if I been doing it wrong this whole time!
   Okay first of all this is my first time taking birth control pills . The drug name is NORGESTIMATE-ETH ESTRADIOL TAB .They are 28 pills , 3 weeks active pills and 1 week reminder pills .
   Okay here is my story , I went to the doctor on a Saturday , he prescribed the birth control , and he told me to take the pill at the same time everyday ( which I have done ) and to start on Sunday.I've never taken birth control before so I didn't think to ask any other questions figuring everything else I might need to know would be in the pills instructions .
   Unfortunately I was unable to go get the pills until Monday , by then I was on the 3rd day of my period . I read the instructions , but I think I misunderstood them because I thought where it says "Day 1 Start " it meant like any other day besides Sunday !
  Now that I have my 2nd pack and I read the directions again I realized I messed up ! So now what do I do ?
   I started on a Monday but have taken them EVERY single day , at the SAME time 
( I set an alarm on my cell ) .I have NOT had sex this whole time since I have started the pill.
    Tomorrow I take the last "reminder pill" . So my question is have I messed up this whole month ? Is it still not safe to have unprotected sex after I start my second pack ? Do I need to start over ?
   Thanks to anyone who answers . Hope I made sense .

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You don't have to Sunday start with any BCPs. Doctors just recommend that because it makes it easier to remember. You can start BCPs at any time in your cycle if you wanted to. You can start the day you start your period, you can start the Sunday after the period, heck, you could start right in the middle of your cycle if you wanted to. You start with the active pills for the 3 weeks and then when you take the sugar pills your period will come. If you took pills on time every day you took them correctly. Doctors will tell women to use a backup for the first full month after you start BCPs, but honestly you only need to be taking 2 weeks worth of the active pills to be protected. So if you took them all month, you're fine. Just start the next pack on schedule the next day after you run out of the first, without a gap, don't wait for a Sunday or anything. You're covered.

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HELP !! Have I messed up my birth control?

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