period every few months

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Registered: 08-20-2006
period every few months
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Sun, 08-20-2006 - 2:04pm
Is anyone taking the pill that only has you have a period every few months? What do you think of it? Any side effects?
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Registered: 04-04-2003
Sun, 08-20-2006 - 8:39pm

The pill that's sold in 13 week packages (12 weeks of hormones, one of placebos) is called Seasonale. I've been on it for about a year. I sometimes spot before I get to the 12 week mark, but if it gets too bad I just take a week off from the hormone pills earlier than 12 weeks.

One thing that's been said around here (and my doc mentioned when she perscribed it for me) is that there's no magic to Seasonale. It's a monophasic pill that comes in different packaging than most pills. Any monophasic pill can be taken that way. (With triphasil, it's a little more difficult. There's a post about that somewhere.) So if you're on one that you like, you can try taking 2 or 3 packages of hormone pills without the placebos and see what happens.

You could do a forum search for Seasonale and read more about it.

Hope that helps :)
Ana :-)


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