Fewer Periods? (Women Only)?

I asked my doc the same thing. Of course i took the pill to be safe, but also to regulate my period and to stop having the horrible cramps. He told me that when i take the pill to skip the placebo pills and go right into the next pack. This stops your period all together and if you want your period back, go back to taking the placebo pills. I am on orth-tri cyclen lo pills and they help keep my skin clear and my pain is gone.

Way back in the day before birth control. Hell before the rhythm method, women had very few periods. For hundreds of thousands of whatever. They were pregnant all of the time. If anything its more unnatural for women to be having as many as they do these days. The only thing unhealthy about the pill is the pill itself but not its affect it will or will not have on our periods.

It all depends on your body. Every woman's hormonal make-up is different and therefore this pill may affect you differently than it affects another. Due to the types of hormones and the amounts included in this particular pill, it may affect you adversely. The best advice I can give you is to talk to your GYN, have her review what you've taken in the past and how it has affected you and make a decision together. One thing to always consider is what your reason for taking the pill is in the first place: birth control? regulating your periods? to help control acne breakouts? These will all affect how you decide which pill is right for you.

As others said, continue taking your regular pills and go to the next pack of pills without the week break. You shouldn't have a period that way. If I were younger, I would never have one.

I can't speak for the pills, although they sound like a great improvement...but I've been on depo provera for years (the injection) and my periods stopped immediately...i've had one or two light ones in all the years I've been on the shot...

I've stayed on it at times just for the no-periods side effect, even when I wasn't sexually active...

they're fine. you can do it with any bc pill by the way, just dont take the placebo week-open a new pack instead. go ahead and try them, but some women have problems with irregular spotting/bleeding and are unable to go for the whole 3 months.

I don't have personal experience with the less-periods pills but I do know that there aren't any health risks associated with having less periods so they're not dangerous at all.

Go ahead and give them a try!

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