I don't want my period!

[faunal-fantasy.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if anyone knows how to use the pill to postpone your period for a few days? I am going to the beach and would like to try to have my period when I get back, and not during.

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[littleblueworld.livejournal.com]

You may want to check with your gynocologist. I always hesitate to offer advice like this. That said, I was supposed to have my period the night of my wedding. (I counted it out three months in advance.) While I am not too squeamish about having sex while on my period the wedding night's supposed to be white, not red. My doctor and I worked out a method so that I would neither have my period on my wedding night nor during my honeymoon. She had me take two straight months of the active pills, having no period. If you do this a few months consecutively, you will spot and/or have a period. From my understanding doing this every now and then is not a problem. Often, women with herpes take active pills all the time to prevent outbreaks. Again, give your doctor a call.

[lilyofthewest.livejournal.com]

If you have a 28 day pack, skip the last seven days of it (the placebo/sugar week) and start taking the active pills in your next pill pack. If you have a 21 day pack, go straight on to your next pill pack rather than having a week of no pills. While this is not absolutely foolproof it generally works fairly well. You will be much more likely to spot/have breakthrough bleeding if you are on a low dose pill or phasic/tri-cyclic pill.

[lilyofthewest.livejournal.com]

If you want to keep your pregnancy protection, you will need to wait until your next placebo week before menstruating. You can really only push it back in increments of 3 weeks - a few days isn't really an option if you want to maintain the pills other benefits (be they for your skin, or as pregnancy protection, or period regulation, etc.)