Changing Start Days

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-18-2003
Changing Start Days
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Sun, 06-06-2004 - 11:20pm
I am on Marvelon (monophasic OC) and this is my pill free week, therefore AF will be here in not too long! Anyways, I am in a wedding this weekend, and my BF is coming (we're in a LDR during the summer months) therefore want to be AF free for the weekend. Usually she has subsided quite a bit by the weekend, but I figure that just to make sure I will start my pills on either Friday or Saturday, rather than the normal Sunday. I am assuming, but just want to make sure - that this is fine to do, seeing as I am not going more than 7 days without a pill, rather it will be 5 or 6 days. So am I correct in assuming this?!
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-30-2003
Sun, 06-06-2004 - 11:59pm
Hi myomy5,

Reducing your hormone free days to 5 or 6 is fine there will be no reduction in the effectiveness of your pills.

Good luck,

      Jill

    

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-18-2003
Mon, 06-07-2004 - 11:20am
Thanks for the reply - do you or anyone else have experience doing this? And does it work how I'd expect it to work (AF stops earlier because the active pills have been started again)?
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Tue, 06-08-2004 - 8:01am
I've re-started the ring early, sometimes it stops my end-of-period spotting, sometimes it doesn't. I think it will depend on exactly how your body deals with the hormones. You can always try it, but with the pill you would have to remember that you'd have a new start day (I'm on the ring, I've got some flexibility as far as how many days it's in) and that could get complicated unless you get a spare pack of pills to get you back on track.

Good luck!

Judie
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