The fewer periods regime
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| Tue, 01-30-2007 - 11:50am |
Has anyone gone to the fewer periods regime with the pill, a period every three months. And what brand of pill are you using.
This is NOT about depo. No shot replies please. I want to live till my next b-day. lol
I've been seeing a lot of news coverage on this and then recently googled it and found that more and more gynos are prescribing it. Particularly women doctors. And I couldn't find one single article that pointed out any problems let alone serious problems. And most really focused on the good points, as in highly recommended.
As I understand it when Docs first started to recommend it and prescribe it, you as the user had to be responsible for going through your three packs and selecting the order of pills from the second pack and the third pack, etc because of the difference in hormones and the order they should be taken moving on to the 4th week through 12th week. Which would have been a pain. But now I see that a couple of companies are making 3 month packs that set up the order for you. Like Seasonique and a Yaz which I assume is from the makers of yazmin.
Has anyone heard yet if Ortho has come out yet, with a 3 month pack for the fewer period regime? Like I've been on ortho for a long time and have like zero side affects. And hear things about switching. And a lot of women have a lot of problems with yazmin. Like I don't want to switch brands very bad. And they say going on the fewer periods regime that if you're just starting out, just like starting new with any of the pills it takes a couple of months to get adjusted. But if you're just switching from a monthly "pill period" to three months, there are very few if no problems.
I'm pretty intrigued and interested and will bring it up with my gyno next time. And would go to 3 months in a heart beat if I didn't have to switch brands. Like I would call early. But I still don't want to have to fuss around with making my own selection of the hormones. It's something like if you are doing it using the normal one month packs, you do pack one then have to take the pills in reverse from the next pack or something. omg. naaaaa lol
Anyway, is what I found on the net a little dated and it's probably only a matter of time but has Ortho come out with a 3 month regime pack yet?
Thanks all
Char

Hi ivchar4u, welcome!
Jill
Holy cow, THANKS for the time Jill. I hope people appreciate YOUR effort, I KNOW the difference between cls lower case and CLs with BIG letters for the BIG effort. lol
I saw some of that when I was searching but not all of it. I'm a big the heck with the societal naysayers. lol It's my body and I'll do with it as I please. lol
I'll have to talk with my doc. I'd do it in a heart beat, BUT I'm golden on my prescription and that irregular bleeding and spotting as a common side effect would be soooooooooo annoying. Kind of defeats the purpose, ya know.
But THANK YOU again
Char
Edited 1/30/2007 7:18 pm ET by ivchar4u