Can you delay your period while on birth control pills? How?

Question

for example, a woman gets her period after taking the 3rd/ 4th maroon tablet (based on experience), could it be possible to delay the period by not taking the 3rd/4th?

what if I she has already taken 3 inactives? could she continue straight to the new pack? or it would be too late?

Answer 1

I'm a guy, and I'm no doctor, but I'm pretty sure the maroon pills (that you take for only 7 days) are just sugar pills. They don't do anything. You just take them to keep in the habit of taking a pill a day. My wife doesn't take those seven pills at all, and she still gets a little period ... and then starts up with her "real" pill (one of the 21 other pills) on the Sunday after the week without pills.

So in answer to your question, no, I don't think you can delay your period.

But what about that pill that you take for 3 months, and then you get one period -- just 4 periods a year? That's a delay....

Answer 2

I'm not sure about your brand, but I skipped it this month because I was going on vacation and have done it once before. I'm on Yaz, and on that one, you just don't take the white inactive pills. When you get to the end of the regular pills, you just throw out the inactives and start a new pack on the day you'd normally take the inactives. You might read the directions to figure out which pills are the inactive ones in your brand.

Answer 3

they have rather began advertising delivery administration tablets that incorporate 4 weeks of energetic drugs which you would be able to take for prolonged classes (lol) with the intention to no longer have any classes. This grow to be recently authorized via the FDA. i do no longer understand how long that's risk-free to try this, yet communicate on your gp/gyn checklist approximately getting a prescription for those, extremely than the style you're taking. yet once you purely plan this as a one-time element, that's okay to take the energetic drugs for 4-6 weeks. individually the assumption of certainly no longer having a era looks extraordinary, and doubtless no longer risk-free interior the long-term. yet I in no way loved the assumption of pumping all those hormones into my physique to "fool" it into thinking that's pregnant, that's actually how the pill works. i've got continually used an IUD.

Answer 4

No way to delay it that close to when she is due.

She would need to get the ok from her DOCTOR to skip the placebo week and then she would have to take care of it in advance (i.e. more than a few days).

Tampons and midol. Have fun!