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Birth Control
Okay, so this is just out of curiosity, I would never mess with my birth control because I know that's bad for you. Just to clarify.
But just wondering...
I'm on Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo. It has pills to take every day, then placebo pills to take for the week you have your period.
If someone was to skip the placebo pills and just keep taking the regular pills for two months, say, would they not get their period?
Oh, and also, do I take all 7 placebo pills or just stop taking them once my period's over?
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The placebo pill is a placebo. The point of the placebo is to keep track and keep you on the schedule of taking th pill. Your period should not be interupted at all. The placebo pill really is so you dont forget about the pill and to keep you into good habits.
Howver when you start your period you can just toss them if you want but you would NOT start another pack untill after your period is over. However if you did start a new pack it would affect your period. How I'm not 100% sure but it would probubly delay it. Again I can not say that with total accuracy. If you want to keep the regular cycle stick to what you were doing before, there really isnt any need to mess with something that should be happening anyway.
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Women have been doing this for years to delay their period so it doesn't hit a special weekend, a pool party, their honeymoon, their vacation...
Most likely if you skipped your placebo pills and kept taking the birth control pills you would not get your period. BUT, you could still get some light bleeding. Everyone's body reacts differently. I have never delayed an entire month, but I have successfully delayed 1-2 weeks.
The placebo pills can be taken or tossed. They are there just to help you keep track. So you have three weeks of 'birth control' and one week off.
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If you were to start a new pack of birth control pills as soon as you made it to the green pills in your pack then you would still have a period, only it might be more screwy than usual. Typical results are experiencing light bleeding during the ENTIRE month or break through bleeding throughout the following month. It may take the body another month or two after that to even out and stop break through bleeding.
It SOUNDS like you could skip that week and miss your period but that isn't how the body was designed. If you were to do this long-term then you would probably begin to miss periods; however, then you have to take into account that it is extremely unhealthy for a woman to go without menstruation (the lining of the uterus becomes thicker).
Take all 7 placebo pills during that week. Do not miss one. If you skip one and end your period week early your entire cycle may be messed up. Take all 7 pills and start the new pack when you finish all of those. You have exactly 7 so that your body gets on a specific schedule and your ovaries do not release eggs--if you mess with that schedule too much then you will have an increased chance of pregnancy.
Simply take all of the pills as directed.
If you don't take them as directed then the 92% effectiveness of preventing pregnancy drops. (The 99% they advertise, by the way, is for perfect usage in the laboratory setting. We simply cannot achieve that. That being said, hormonal birth control pills are only about 92% effective.)
Take the pill at the same time each and every day. Even the placebo pills. Yes, they're just placebos but it helps keep your mind remembering the pills on a schedule.
Take all of the pills--including placebo pills--in the package before starting another one.
If you have any more questions please feel free to ask me! :)
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