*BIRTH CONTROL* question?

Question

I'm currently taking BC pills (Loestrin). I have 24 days of white "active" pills and 4 days of brown placebo ones.

In about a month I'm going to stay at my boyfriend's house for a week. The day that I get there, I will be on my 4th and final placebo pill, so I'll be bleeding and whatnot.

I've heard you can skip your period with birth control pills but that there's also a chance you'll have spotting if you skip the placebos. If I take the first three placebo pills and then skip the 4th one and go straight to my active pills again on that day, do you think that would be okay?

I know obviously I should ask a doctor but I wanted to get opinions here first. Did that question even make sense? I just don't want any chance of me having a period at all at my boyfriend's house from the moment I get there until I leave so I was just thinking of skipping that last brown pill and hopefully ending the period early

Answer 1

You should probably call your pharmacist that way you can ask over the phone. Ive heard of something like that too of skipping it using the pill. And asking over the phone you dont have the embarassment of asking in person if your shy. The pharmacist will know ALL about the pill. Best person I can think to ask.

Answer 2

It's perfectly safe to skip your period, but you do so by not taking *any* of the placebo pills: just go from the last active pill to the first pill in the next pack. If you take the first three placebos, you will most likely bleed and still be bleeding on the 4th. There is a chance that you will spot, but that's spotting as opposed to the full withdrawal bleed you normally get when you take the placebo pills.

Lucky for you, loestrin is one of the best pills to skip bleeding. Don't listen to anyone who tells you it's not safe to do this. The "period" you get while taking hormonal contraception isn't a real period at all, since you're not ovulating.

Answer 3

You know, there's a reason this stuff is only available with prescriptions, right? And that reason isn't related to anyone's ideas of morality, it's because these drugs can harm you if not taken under trained medical supervision, right? So it's totally ignorant to even ask anyone but your doctor's opinion, right?

So why are you even asking this here? You already know the answers aren't worth a pig's sphincter.

Answer 4

Why skip it? I am always happy when I see red. I have yet to see a man that has a problem with this. My husband is actually turned on at this time sine he knows we are "safe"