Skipping Green Pills
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Skipping Green Pills
| Mon, 10-25-2004 - 6:23am |
This is a bit of a weird, hypothetical question. I'm curious whether it's problematic to skip a few of the sugar pills and go into the white pills again, say, after 3-4 placebos.
Would this end your period faster (like when you first start taking the pill)? Would it influence the effectiveness of the new pack? Could this be used as an effective way to change your start day?
Edited 10/25/2004 6:36 am ET ET by mellifluent

As for what it does to your period, sometimes it can make it shorter by getting rid of annoying spotting days, but sometimes it won't make any difference, it all depends on your body!
So long as you don't change your 21 days on and however-many-less-than-seven-off, the effectiveness of the pill should not be altered. The only time you'd have to worry were if you took more than 7 days off or if changing your start day caused you to miss a future start day.
Good luck!
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Thanks so much, Judie. :)