https://imnotyourstarx.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] imnotyourstarx.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] vaginapagina2006-06-14 08:26 pm

taking a break from the patch

WARNING: i am wordy and feel its necessary to tell a long story before asking a simple question. :)


hello! i am 17, boston born and bred, in a long term relationship with a adorable boy for about a year and a half. i am on ortho evra (the patch) and im freaking in love with it. i have been on it for about 7(ish?) months. i am due to get my period tomorrow around 12 PM. (reason #1 why i love the patch: i can predict when ill get my period down to the hour.)

on june 27 my boy will be boarding a plane for israel. he will return mid-august.
on june 29 i will be boarding a plane to texas to go visit my family. (boo...) i will return mid-august.
so, we will be apart for 6 weeks or so. thus, no bangin' will take place.

i was thinking during this 6 weeks (it would be starting now, since im on my period week) i would like to take a break from the patch. the 2 reasons are 1) im not totally ok with being on hormones and this would be the only time i would be able to take a break. i just want to do it. and 2) its hot in texas. much hotter than the boston weather im used to. my parents have a pool that i pretty much live in or around when i visit them. people are bound to see it. my bathing suits are lower than the patch; its hard to hide. my parental unit #1 (mother) knows about the patch, boy, the hot sweaty bangin, etc, etc. shes pretty cool. parental unit #2, on the other hand, if he saw my little birth control patch, would load a shotgun, catch a plane to israel, and hunt.boy.down. i just dont want to be on it while down there. its not necessary.

*exhale* i told you i was wordy.

ok. so, here the question: will i totally wig out if i stop? will the adjustment coming off and then going back on it in late august be hard? i had no weird side effects when i started the patch, but since ive been on it for so long, might that change when i restart? any thoughts/comments that are even remotely related are super cool. :)

[identity profile] loonylupinlover.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Have you tried the butt area, as mentioned above? That was where I always put mine after the first week, where tight jeans made the patch on the hip lift up and wrinkle, freaking me way out. Since then I've gotten some wrinkles on the ass patches, but they've only fallen off twice (and in nine months that ain't bad). And no one can see but my boyfriend and me. :)