what is the safest way to stop my periods.?

Answer 1

Yes, as the ob/gyn RN respondent mentioned, it is considered fairly safe in the medical community to simply continue taking your active hormone pills if you are on birth control and just skip the week of sugar pills. It is in fact thought that the sugar pills were never necessary in the first place, but were kept for fear of scaring off those woman customers who were uncomfortable with the idea of a pill that eradicates their period.

I'm on Seasonale, and basically all it is is regular hormone pills straight through for three months, and then a week of sugar pills so you can get your period (only four times a year). It can, however, be expensive if you don't have insurance, so consider going on a cheaper pill and just talking with your doctor about skipping the sugar pills. (If your [male] doctor doesn't know much about it, you might consider bringing him/her some research you've found.) I've had such an ignorant and rather sexist male doctor in the past. Here's more info: http://www.noperiod.com/. (The woman who authored this site is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington.)

P.S. Pregnancy is just as, if not more, damaging to the body than taking hormone pills. At this point in history, women have more periods in their lifetimes than ever because they're living longer, not dying in childbirth, and not constantly pregnant as they often were in past centuries. And the pill greatly reduces your risks for certain kinds of cervical and uterine cancers.

And please don't overdose on ibuprofen like one above respondent suggested. It's simply a muscle relaxant and cannot stop your period (but it's excellent for preventing cramps).

Answer 2

Hormones are what causes women to have periods. Hormones build up the lining in the uterus which will shed if you do not become pregnant. However, taking birth control pills will control this process. There are 2 methods. As someone with a little knowlege mentioned earlier, you CAN take your birth control pills everyday with no break inbetween and this will trick your body into believing it is pregnant and you will not have a cycle. It is normal to eventually have some break through bleeding and that is a good time to stop taking the pill and have a period. The second way is another birth control pill option that is new on the market, it offers packages that allow you to take your pills back to back for 3 months and then have a period. Therefore you only get 4 periods a year! Not a bad deal.
Other than that the only way is to have the uterus removed. You sound like you are young enough to still have children and this is not an option for you.

Answer 3

Experience menopause. Once completed, it has a 100% success rate.

Exercise obsessively and lower your body fat percentage until your periods stop. This method is demonstrated periodically at the Olympics, especially among the gymnasts.

There are ways to manipulate birth control pills to eliminate, for the most part, your menstrual periods. If you plan never to have children, don't smoke, and have no history anywhere in your family tree of any clotting disease, you might try this method.

A partial hysterectomy (just the uterus) is a sure-fire method, and the only downside is the inability to bear children.

Years ago there was a TV commercial the tagline for which was "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." It's not smart to mess around with the way you were put together. Menstrual periods aren't something that happens in isolation. They are part of an entire system, and that system is you. If you try to mess with one part, you stand an enormous chance of messing up other parts.

The jury is still out on the effects of long-term menstruation suppression. If you really want to try it, talk to your gynecologist. The drugs are out there.

Answer 4

The safest way is birth control pills but they have to be prescribed by a doctor.

Answer 5

Many women take the birth control pill seasonale. It only give a woman 4 periods a year. It requires a prescription from the doctor. Actually many studies have came out that says it is ok for a woman to not have her period. Talk to your doctor. Otherwise the only other option is pregnancy.

http://www.seasonale.com/

Answer 6

The depo shot stops your periods... If you're wanting to delay it a couple days, i've heard that a really high dosage of IBprophen will do the trick.. Like taking 3 of them every 3 hours.

Answer 7

there's no way you can stop it unless you are about fifty years old, and it's not worth the risk anyway to stop it, it might bring some side effects. i know periods suck and you want to get rid of it, but there's nothing much you could do about it, being a girl is tough, so get used to it

Answer 8

Talk to your dr about taking the pill constantly (never skip a week and never take the sugar pills, take active pills every day forever).

Answer 9

Birth control pills I'm a nurse.

Answer 10

Iud's are supposed to eventually do this, and are good because then you don't have to remember a pill. Otherwise you could talk to your Dr. and get on the pill, just not take the sugar pills. My friends use IUD's with great success.