Come on....really!?

*BeachBride0410*

So I decided to look ahead and check my cycle...well lucky me, Aunt Flo will be coming to town the week of my wedding!!!  So I called the dr. and she told me how to skip a period to make it so I wont have problems the week of the wedding. 

Has anyone else ever done this?  I guess if the doctor said it was ok, it must be.

sarah0725

It depends on your pill. If it's the same amount of hormones every week, then you're fine. If it's something like Orthotricyclen-Lo, where the amount of hormone changes every week, then you don't get your period for the week you were trying to skip, but then you get it for a whole month afterward. Or at least that's what happened to me.

sucrets4

People do it all the time.

In fact, they make bc now that only makes you get it 4x a year.

You don't have too much time, though...you still can spot when your period should have happened.  Get on a different cycle asap.

ggmae

I skipped it for my prom and for a cruise I took after HS, and I had no problem getting back on track. I was on BC at the time for irregularity (and not for actual pg prevention) though.

aMrsin09

Am i the only one that scheduled the wedding taking that into account?

ExpatPumpkin

It's not a big deal, especially if you're on monophasic pills (those with a constant dose of hormones).  I never did it when I was on the pill, so I can't speak to personal experience about spotting, etc. 

My understanding is that you simply continue on to a new pack instead of taking the inactive pills for the week you would have gotten your period.  So instead of 3 weeks of active pills and 1 week of inactive pills, you take active pills for 6 weeks straight.  Your next period may be heavier, but it would probably be worth it

*BeachBride0410*

sucrets-  Yeah I will be skipping my next period, currently have it now or I would have done it sooner....the doctor told me to take week 1 instead of being on my off week so it should even itself out by the wedding.  So I am hoping I wont have break through bleeding by April.

lyndausvi

I didn't aMrsin09.  But DH didn't care either way.  He wanted me off BC (well me too), so if AF happend so be it.  It did happen at the end of our HM.  But we had been gone for 3 weeks, so it really was not a big deal by then.

ggmae

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[QUOTE]Am i the only one that scheduled the wedding taking that into account?
Posted by aMrsin09[/QUOTE]

I couldn't. Mine is so irregular and is a crapshoot every month.

aMrsin09

I guess with us being LDR I just got used to scheduling the trips as best as we could ;-)

MyNameIsNot

I used to do this all the time when I was on the pill.  My insurance wouldn't cover Seasonal or whatever it's called, so I had a conversation with my doc about it.  She told me it was fine to do 4 periods a year on the pill I was on at the time. 

Since you have a couple of months, it's a good idea to do the skip now rather than then.  Your body will work itself out pretty quickly.

SwedishChick2011

I purposely skipped the inactive pills on BC and started a new pack so Aunt Flo wouldn't be there on the honeymoon.  My doctor said it was okay too.

NuggetBrain

Does this work with the patch as well as the pill?

SwedishChick2011

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[QUOTE]Does this work with the patch as well as the pill?
Posted by NuggetBrain[/QUOTE]
Do you wear the patch for 3 weeks, take a week off, and then put on a new one?  If so, I would think you could just put on a new one without taking a week off.  Don't take my word for that, though - ask your doctor.

pooh8402

I'm doing this as well. I'm pretty sure the patch works as well (instead of leaving the patch off for a week, just stick a new one on). I'm on Nuvaring, which is the same concept as the patch (same level of hormones released slowly on a daily basis for 3 weeks, remove for 1 week). I skip periods all the time, about every other month. many many many ob-gyns and whnps say this is okay and lots of research has been done on it.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

I'm on seasonale and I do it a lot, but you can do it with regular mono pills too. (What Sarah said.) Just watch out for some spotting/break through bleeding. Still, I think it's a good option.

thesuninherhead

I do it two out of every three pill packs without a problem. I can't push it out any longer than that, though, without getting spotting.

alixzafiris

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[QUOTE]It depends on your pill. If it's the same amount of hormones every week, then you're fine. If it's something like Orthotricyclen-Lo, where the amount of hormone changes every week, then you don't get your period for the week you were trying to skip, but then you get it for a whole month afterward. Or at least that's what happened to me.
Posted by sarah0725[/QUOTE]

That's what I'm on (Tricyclen Lo) and that didn't happen to me, thank god. I just skipped one by skipping the placebo week and moving straight onto the next pack.

nda_roxybabe

Yup, you can do that.
I would never be able to plan anything around my period. It's insanely irregular. I can go months without anything...

*BeachBride0410*

Alixa that is what I will be doing!

laurenclaire1386

I made the same mistake as Sarah. I had tri-phasic pills and just started a new pack, instead of taking the week off. I really did bleed for like a month. It was fecking awful.