make my period go away!

[hmmm-indeed.livejournal.com]

I hope that even if you can't help me out that some of you lovely ladies will at least be able to offer some encouraging words to make me hate my body/girl parts a little less.

I was planning on trying to stack my pills this month. This plan is most likely NOT going to work, since my period started in the middle of the day today. I still have active pills to take tonight, tomorrow and saturday. My period doesn't usually arrive til sometime on tuesday. It's just gross brown stuff now, which means it'll probably be even longer than usual, too, since it's like it's just getting rid of leftovers right now.

Is there ANYTHING i can do to make it stop? Doubling up on pills? ANYTHING?? Or, i suppose, is there any way i can make it REALLY heavy so that it's over with sooner?

I'm definitely going to have to make a doctor's appointment, since this pill is clearly not right for me. Part of why i started taking HBC was to regulate my periods and so this is really frustrating. Is it maybe because my sister started today too? My period seems to be a big joiner. Before i was on the pill, it would usually only come every couple of months, but would almost ALWAYS synch up with either my sister or a close friend. If it matters, i'm on Aviane (just switched from Alesse a couple of months ago, but this has happened on Alesse before too), and i'm almost NEVER late with my pills, just one time this month i was about an hour late - otherwise, within minutes of the same time every night.

If ANYONE can offer ANY sort of advice, that would be MUCH appreciated!! Even just some nice thoughts about your girl parts to try and make me feel better about my own...

THANK YOU!!

Comments

[queensugar.livejournal.com]

Doubling up might stop it, or it might have the opposite effect of prolonging your bleed. There's no way to know.

Your best bet is to take your pills as normal, and have the seven-day placebo week as per normal, and let your body have the full bleed it obviously wants to have. Once bleeding has started, it's hard to make it reliably stop.

One thing you might want to consider is trying a brand with a higher estrogen dose. Aviane and Alesse are actually identical -- Aviane is just the generic of Alesse -- and both are very low-dose, with only 20 mcg. of estrogen.

Many women need a higher estrogen dose to prevent breakthrough bleeding. I'm not a doctor, but you might want to ask yours about looking at a pill with a higher estrogen dose -- there's a number of popular brands with 30 mcg. of estrogen on the market.

[archangelbeth]

*pats sympathetically*

You may be extra-sensitive to the pheromones of other women, which would definitely be annoying if you were trying to break out of sync with them!

As to trying to get it over with more quickly... Anecdotally, when I've masturbated to orgasm once a day, 3 days in a row (during teh bleed tiems; loluterus), it seemed to shorten the period by about a day.

Good luck finding a more workable HBC!

[machinewithin.livejournal.com]

I am wildly unhelpful, but I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who synchs up with their friend's periods. I lived with my best friend for a while and we were synched up pretty much within an hour of each other, and when I moved out we ended up being a week apart.

Also, as archangelbeth said, masturbating shortens it, at least in my experience.

[machinewithin.livejournal.com]

Wow, that got all fucked up, my bad. :-X *hangs head in internetz shame*