Norethindrone to Delay Period (Urgent Help)

[starve2thrive.livejournal.com]

Came across many websites telling how norethindrone will delay period.  Most of these websites regarded people within the UK.  When the doctors prescribed Norethindrone to them, it was 5 mg three times per day (3-4 days before expected period).

My doctor prescribed me .35 mg?  I don't understand how that dosage is going to cause my period to delay when in the UK they are given sooo much more three times per day?  Has this happened to anyone else and is this dosage going to do anything whatsoever?

Also, I am not on Birth Control.  Only prescribed norethindrone for this one time usage.  I have a 28 day pill pack of .35 mg norethindrone.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

http://vaginapagina.livejournal.com/14999438.html had success with 5mg once a day for 5 days...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC27277/ says: "At low dose (≤1 mg a day) it can be use in combination with oestrogens either as a contraceptive or in hormone replacement therapy. At higher dose (≥5 mg daily) it can be used for menorrhagia, to treat metropathia haemorrhagica, and to postpone menstruation."

It looks like your doctor has given you the contraceptive dose -- which may indeed cause a lack of ovulation and therefore delayed/no menstruation or bleeding -- and not the "shock the ovaries into reeling around for a few extra days" dose.

If it is vital that you need to delay your period, apparently it's safe to go up to 5mg a day (or thrice a day), and you have a lot of .35mg pills... Well, math says...


Must run! Good luck!

[nickelshoe.livejournal.com]

Math says that 28 pills of .35 mg means if she took the whole pack, she'd only have 9.8 mg...not even enough for one day of the 5mg three times a day regimen.

[starve2thrive.livejournal.com]

I know :( I don't know why my doctor didn't prescribe me 5 mg pills. I specifically told him I wanted to delay my period beings I start on christmas and I am traveling and do NOT want to be on the road, in pain, stopping every hour to change my womanly products.

I just have a bad feeling this .35 mg dosage isn't going to do anything at all. I've been taking 2 of them a day instead of 1 a day. I think I'm too close to my period for this low dosage to have any effect whatsoever.

[archangelbeth]

This is why I don't do math at 6:30 am. Thanks. Maybe call the doctor back and explain you want the dosage that is used to delay periods rather than this dosage?

[nickelshoe.livejournal.com]

My guess is that you told your doctor you wanted norethindrone to delay your period. Your doctor had never prescribed it for that before, but knew it was possible. Your doctor did not look up dosing and merely prescribed you the norethindrone they prescribe as birth control. Have you called your doctor? They might be able to call in a different prescription for you.

[incarnated-joy.livejournal.com]

It wont work at that level, if you can, call your doctor and tell them they've given you too low a dose and would like the prescription re-evaluated on the basis that you want it for a specific reason, and that 5mg is the necessary dose. Good luck.