really need some help don't know where to find this info!

[sh 08]

I just started my period today, i am due to go on a trip this time next month and i am regular! i am so worried i am going to have a ruined trip so i was wondering if taking the pill will help hold it off? a few years ago i didn't get a period for months so the dr put me on the pill to start it and it worked but i did feel neasous and i dont know if i would rather suffer with the period than the neasea from the pill!! Does it even help? and if i did start to take it what kind and when would i start it so my period waited till after my trip to comr? is there a low level hormone one that will give me less side effects? i will be in water most of my trip and i have such heavy periods that i need a super plus tampon and pad for 3 days of it that i change every 2 hours so you can see why i want to hold this off! i am worried that what if i start it and it messes with my hormones so bad i end up getting it randomly and it lasts forever which it has done before when i was young, i know some people do this when they are getting married and such....also i am 37...please any help would be great!

[Tivo123]

It's too late now for you to take the pill and have any effect on your period for next month. You should have gone to the doctor and gotten on the pill several months ago to allow your body to adjust to it before you tried skipping. At this point, there's no telling how you might react to starting it first of all but then also trying to skip right away. You've got a lot going against you. I'm afraid there's not much you can do about next month's trip at this point. You can still go on the pill but if it's already passed the first day after your period and the first Sunday after your period then you couldn't start taking the pill until your next period started anyway. If you want to start taking the pill so you can be on it already and able to try skipping your period sometime in the future that's fine but as for now, it's way too late for you to start the pill now for it to have any effect on your next period.

[sh 08]

ok thanks for your help i would have thought if i would have started it when this period was over the hormone would have been enough to stop ovulation for the upcoming month? i know when i took it before when i had to restart it again it took a month and i would have thought had i kept taking it i would have held it off longer. Oh well i guess other than having a hystorectomy i have no other choices other than willing it to be late lol

[boodles]

Go along and have a word with your doctor. He/she can prescribe a progesterone pill that is designed specifically for delaying periods. I have used this several times in the past when I have had important trips to go on.

You start the tablets 3 or 4 days before your period is due if I remember correctly. You take them three times a day. As soon as you are ready for your period to start you stop them. Then a day or two later your period starts. Please note however they don't have any contraceptive effect.

Hope you have a good trip

[Kszan]

I don't think they have those pills available in the US. I remember another post in which someone in the UK was talking about those pills that allegedly delay your period and she said she knew they were not available in the US.

I agree that it's too late at this point for you to delay it. It's a shame you didn't think of it sooner, you could have had several months worth of the pill already and a trial run to ensure your period would skip and you would have been all set! Next time if you know you're going on a trip make sure you deal with the period thing well ahead of time so you won't have to be scrambling at the last minute like this.