Surgery is 26 days away

My period has been trickling in for a few days but decided to make her formal appearance today. So today is the day that I get to start the "birth control" pills. My entire reproductive system I think we could consider a form of birth control. I pick up the pills at the pharmacy and the pharmacist asks me if I've taken this medicine before. I should have lied and said yes. I said no because I haven't taken this particular brand of pill before and besides that it's been almost five years since I've taken birth control pills. The realization that we have been TTC for almost five years hit me like a ton of bricks. FIVE YEARS?!? FIVE YEARS?!!? I've been dealing with IF for almost five years. Ugg. No wonder it's getting easier for me to deal with. I have no other choice. Ok, so I tell the pharmacist that I haven't taken the medicine before and she tells me to take it at approximately the same time everyday and that if I miss a pill I should double up until I get back on schedule and here's the kicker...to use a back up method of birth control. I wanted to ask her if blocked tubes counts as a back up method. I just felt myself smiling and nodding at the woman. A back up method of birth control? Oh please. Then she tells me that if I am taking antibiotics that those could also lessen the effectiveness of the pill and again to use a back up method. I realize that she had no idea that what she was saying was positively nauseating to me but it was and I can't wait until this surgery is behind me.