question about HBC starting day

[borderdog.livejournal.com]

Why are you supposed to begin taking the active pills on the first day of you period, if the placebo pill days are the time you should get your period? Wouldn't doing so cause you to have your period twice in one month?

I never understood this..

Unless there is something I'm not getting, it makes more sense to start the pills the day after your period ends, no?

Comments

[atalanta0jess.livejournal.com]

Its unclear to me whether or not this is something that needs to be mentioned...so I'll mention it, just in case! ;)

Its only when you first start taking pills that you start them on the first day of your period. The reason is that you are almost definitely not ovulating the first handful of days after your period, and by the time there is a high chance of ovulation, the pill has kicked in...its to give you a high level of protection. After your first pack, of course, you take resume taking active pills at the end of the placebo week.