Is it unhealthy to take the pill a week before my period is due to delay it for another week?

Question

Something just came up and I can't be on my period this week and I'm due, is it bad to take the pill right now just to delay it?

Answer 1

I would advise you to consult your doctor, but for several years now I have taken the pill so as to not get a period at all.
Its not unhealthy, periods are NOT your body's way of cleaning itself out (minds out of the stone age people!) and for me it was either that or a hysterectomy because I was bleeding so badly.
The only reason the BC pill was designed so that women would still get their periods, is because doctors knew it would be reassuring for women to know they were not pregnant.
Some companies now manufacture pills that only give you a period a few times a years.
The period you get while on the pill is NOT a real period, it is an artificially produced withdrawal bleed, infact a withdrawal symtom of taking sugar rather than hormones.
Check out this website, the Mayo Clinic ha been well respected for decades.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/womens-health/WO00069

Answer 2

No its not harmful, it is quiet okay and you can even get the pill or an injection that gives you a period every 3 months. SO just keep taking the pill but keep taking it till the end of that month and then get your period. Dont just take it for a week and then stop.

Answer 3

Ask the doctor who prescribed the pill to you. Millions of women take the pill without skipping a week for their periods because they don't want to have a period anymore. It didn't work for me personally but there has been nothing to indicate that its bad which is why doctors say you can.

Don't trust anyone on the internet, trust your doctor instead. Don't fool around with your pills on your own, simply call your doctor and ask.

Answer 4

I would assume that you're permanently on the pill and not just going to use it as a one off (because it doesn't work like that)

Check with your doctor as to which pill you're on - i was on Levlen ED and i was recommended going on to the pill to skip my periods as i had severe PMT - just skip the sugar pills and keep going as usual. Don't mess around with the order of the pills.

But always check with your doctor because there are different pills out there which may have different side effects.

Answer 5

I agree with many of the women who tell you to consult your doctor. I know from personal experience that its ok for you to skip your period. In fact that's why companies are coming out with pills so you have shorter periods or only have them 4 times a year. I use birth control to skip my period to control my endometriosis and so many women do the same thing when they have unbearable periods because we have so few options outside of a hysterectomy. I say go for it...it won't kill you.

Answer 6

I often go without my periods now because of medical issues, but as for delaying it for a week it should be ok but I would recommend checking with your dr to see what they say.

Answer 7

Talk to your doctor. On many it is fine to skip your period, but it's best you consult with your doctor, they will be able to tell you what's best for you.

Answer 8

go buy the book by Suzanne Somers: Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones. buy it at the book store, amazon or ebay. it will tell you that women should never take the pill.
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Birth Control Pills and Breast Cancer
November 22nd, 2006

As Dorian noted in NewsSquawk a few weeks back, a meta-analysis of breast cancer data recently revealed a statistically significant correlation between use of the contraceptive pill prior to full-term pregnancy and premenopausal breast cancer.

I finally got a moment to hop over to Procedings, the journal of the Mayo Clinic that reported on the study, and while the article itself is limited to subscribers, the editorial that offers analysis on the findings is open to all.

First off, I was amazed to read that the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which is part of the World Health Organization, categorized the contraceptive pill as a carcinogen in 2005. Granted, I’ve been a bit baby absorbed for the last couple of years, but I cannot believe I never read this news anywhere. Did it get any press? If not, why not?

Now for the findings…it appears that women who have ever used birth control pills have a ”small but statistically significant increased risk of breast cancer”. Furthermore, use of the Pill before having one’s first full-term pregnancy is more strongly associated with breast cancer than being on the Pill after having delivered a baby. The association is even stronger where these pre-baby Pill users were on birth control pills for four years or more. (The editorial further notes, “A higher risk of breast cancer for OC use before first full-term pregnancy was first described more than 25 years ago by Pike et al…” - again, I’m very surprised that evidence linking the Pill and breast cancer has been uncovered for so long, with so little press.)....

Posted by MommaSteph.
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from Suzanne's book:

Those of us who were on the original birth control pills for any length of time were actually on synthetic hormones- strong synthetic hormones. Any wonder why women of our generation are under siege from an epidemic of breast and ovarian cancers? There is a link, and you'll learn more about it in this book.

Read on and see if you relate to my scenario: As I said, for twenty-two years, I was on synthetic birth control pills, the original ones that were very strong. I even manipulated my periods with them, if I didn't want to have a period on a particular weekend. I just didn't realize what was in those birth control pills, nor did I understand the dangers of messing with nature.

I did not realize that having only a two-day bleed meant that I was not ovulating fully. At the time, I thought it was great to have such a light period. I did not realize that the importance of ovulation in the human female body is to let the brain know that I was well, healthy, and reproductive. As far as my brain was concerned, I was not reproductive because I was not fully ovulating. An ovulating woman is a reproductive woman.

To believe that the body is not fully ovulating is a dangerous assumption for the brain to make. If the brain perceives us as unable to reproduce, its job, biologically speaking, is to try to eliminate us to make room for the reproductive ones. This is the nature in us. This is the template that was programmed in us from ancient times. Thus, this hormonal imbalance that I unknowingly put myself in was creating a backdrop for cancer. Why? Because we all have cancer in us, but as long as we are hormonally balanced, the brain perceives us as young, strong, and healthy. If we become imbalanced, this signals to the brain that the reproductive system is no longer in working order, and it is in this scenario that the cancer has a chance to come into being.

You see, cancer proliferates in an environment of hormonal imbalance. This is why I believe that Western medicine's standard of care, well-meaning as it is, is treating us incorrectly. Western medicine is looking at everything except the obvious. Western medicine is trying to poison the cancer out of us, further wreaking havoc with our hormonal systems.

Then, to prevent recurrence, we are given hormone ablation drugs such as tamoxifen or Femara, which interfere with the body's ability to read the hormones in some parts of the body. Plus, for many women these drugs cause horrible side effects. To me, it doesn't make sense to take any drug that prevents new hormones from being made in our bodies or to kill off any of the little bit of hormones we might have left. Why has Western medicine been trying to outthink nature? We are given fake hormones that don't replicate exactly what our bodies make naturally, and doctors are expecting them to work in the same way or better. It hasn't worked. Look around. Are the women you know doing well from midlife on? Most everyone has complaints, from mild to severe. No wonder women are in such bad shape.

Once you understand the importance of your brain perceiving the body as reproductive--our "brain template"--it will be easier for you to make decisions for yourself. We assume that the professionals who are taking care of us know what they are doing. But they can't know what they haven't been taught, and unless you find yourself a doctor such as the ones....

Answer 9

I think it depends on which pill. I can with mine.

Answer 10

yes its bad, go get on the depo shot so you wont have any periods.