Is there any pill that you can take for your period that does not prevent pregnancy?

Question

My parents are catholics, and im a teenager. It is against our religion to use any type of birth control, and id like to know what i can take to regulate my period, and also help me with the pain and etc.
Please name the name of the pill,
and why symptoms you might have to be taking it.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there isn't any.

Answer 2

There are hormones that you can take to regulate your period that are not birth control pills. They are a variety of hormones that can be used; I do not know the names right off. A doctor could help you with that. Will your parents be willing to take you to a doctor to be checked, then you can ask about hormones for this problem. You probably need to be checked out anyway to find out if there is anything wrong that is causing your pain. Endometriotis can cause menstrual pain and there is treatment for that, which does not involve birth control.

When you go to the doctor, explain your symptoms in detail (write them down ahead of time; that will help) and make it clear from the beginning that you are unable and unwilling to take birth control pills. You might be able to talk to some of the women in your church to see what doctor they use. They may be seeing a doctor who is used to treating people who do not use birth control for religious reasons.

I was raised Catholic and I understand what you mean.

Answer 3

I do not know the answer, but I thought you might like to know that it is morally acceptable to take a medicine to control a medical condition even if one of the side effects is birth control.

I know a teenager who takes the birth control pill to relieve severe cramps associated with her period. The Pope has said that this is not a sin. Pope Paul VI stated that "the Church, on the contrary, does not at all consider illicit the use of those therapeutic means truly necessary to cure diseases of the organism, even if an impediment to procreation, which may be foreseen, should result therefrom, provided such impediment is not, for whatever motive, directly willed Humanae Vitae #15."