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Old 06-02-2009, 06:46 PM   #1
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Skipping a period didnt go so well...

So i attempted to skip my period by skipping my week of placebo pills and starting a new pack. but i still got my period well effects of it (spotting and cramps) ive only taken 3 days of pills can i stop taking them and take my week off and then continue with this pack? or should i stop and take my week off and then start a new pack?
OR just continue to take my pills?

 
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Re: Skipping a period didnt go so well...

I'm wondering the same thing. I started my new pack of Kariva (3 weeks of 2 hormone pills, 2 days of sugar pills, and 5 days of a 1-hormone pill, low dosage) (skipping the placebo week) on May 28th. I started spotting (brownish/reddish wipe) to where i need a liner, but nothing else, on May 30th. It hasn't stopped since! I called the doctor and she said that after a week of being on the regular white pills, I would be okay (the pharmacist at the store I get my pills said the same thing). That would have been this past Saturday, the 6th. I'm still going. I am getting married on June 27th, and going to Jamaica the next day for a week. The only things I want to take on my honeymoon are me, my husband, and our clothes/swimsuit. Definitely do not want to take "aunt flo" or anything related to it. My question is this. Do I skip the placebo week of this pack (Thursday-Wednesday), going to the new pack on the 18th, or should I go through the placebo week on the 18th, having my period and starting a new pack on the 25th (2 days before the wedding). I usually spot on tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday and start bleeding on Saturday (3rd day of the week in the placebo week), until about Wednesday. I asked my friend, who just graduated from pharmacy school, and she said that she would go ahead and take the placebo week. What do ya'll think?

 
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Re: Skipping a period didnt go so well...

No, do not stop taking them 3 days into a pack. Continue taking them as you would as if you already skipped a week. It's too late to fix it now, and skipping a week then continuing the same pack will throw you off big time, not to mention the fact that you probably won't be properly protected for the rest of the month (or at least part of it).
Keep taking the pills, finish the pack, and than make sure that you take a week off next month like you usually would for placebo week.

 
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