forcing your period to come a week early
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forcing your period to come a week early
| Mon, 05-17-2004 - 2:17pm |
Ok, here is my situation. I am currently taking TriNessa, and I know you can skip periods by skipping the placebo pills...which I have done before. However, I was wondering if you could skip the third week of active pills...then start a new pack, would that have the same effect...and would you still be protected from pregnancy. So in effect you would be taking 2 weeks of active pills, a week off, then starting over again. Any insight would help...I am very curious!

Another member just asked the same question. Since you are on a triphasic (TriNessa) that might complicate things, even though you have skipped periods on it before. If you want to advance your period by only a week what I would do is not take the placebos and go right to the next pack of actives since you know that will work. That would advance your period by 7 days. I would be very leery of taking only 2 weeks of actives and stopping for a week. OCs haven’t been tested for effectiveness when less than 21 consecutive active pills are taken. You might be ok, but you might not. If you must take only 2 weeks of actives then what I suggest is that you use back-up during your placebo week and for the first 7 active pills in the next pack. Why take a chance, right?
Good luck
Jill
Good luck
Jill