Skipping periods with your pills

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-16-2003
Skipping periods with your pills
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Mon, 07-05-2004 - 5:26pm
Ok, here it goes. I'm getting married next month and to avoid having my period on my honeymoon, I needed to skip my pills a few times (ie go from week 3 in a 4 week cycle straight to week 1 skipping the inactive pills). When I've done this before, I've always had bleeding with it (this is my third time doing this). Excpet this time I didn't have any bleeding at all. Should I be concerned about the possiblity of being pregnet? Its been a while since I skipped my pills and the last time my fiance and I slept together was 3 days before my last period and I had it right on time then. Any advice owuld be helpful
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-03-2003
Mon, 07-05-2004 - 5:38pm
i've only tried this once, and i got weird bleeding to the point where i def had a period and just gave up and let myself have my period. if u want to avoid it for ure honeymoon you could move it up a week instead... just change ure "start day." i moved mine from sunday to thursday before, so while on my period week four i put the patch on thursday instead of sunday, and that worked for me. however, with the patch which is wut i use, i need to use a backup method for 7 days until BC kicks in again.

hope i helped

<3cari