JILL -- changing OTC-lo!!
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| Fri, 05-25-2007 - 2:48pm |
jill, i would love for you to help me make out a plan on how to do this properly! i certainly don't want to compromise the effectiveness of the pill, so by either delaying or making my period earlier with your help and guidance would be much appreciated!!! i'm sure other people could get something out of this too, anyone who wants to know exactly how to change the date of your period. woohoo!! ok. so here are the three questions you asked:
1) where you are in your present pack? I just took Friday (i'm a Sunday start) of the first week
2) on what day you will be married? august 11, a saturday (77 days!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!)
3) how much time you will need for your wedding-honeymoon? we leave the next day, sunday aug 12 and come back the saturday aug 18.
so either way, whichever, whether it be to get my period 1 and 1/2 weeks prior to the wedding (mine tend to be like 5 days, with only 1 1/2 of them being heavy, and all the rest just stupid, meaningless, annoying spotting and brown). or to get it post honeymoon. either way, i'm a happy camper!! THANKS SO MUCH!!!!

Hi emmy1234,
Jill
holy cow, you're really incredible at figuring that kind of stuff out. ok, so either way though, with either option, you're telling me that when sex does happen, the pill should still be it's normal 99% effective? i'm just terrified of messing it up, and then having it be decreased, and then having a baby when we want to wait at least 5 years, haha, so that would be a bit of a bump in the road.
both options sound good, so i'll give a couple days to think it thru and then decide. thanks again!!!!
Hi again emmy1234,
Jill
I just wanted to let you know, jill, that i ended up using both options and kind of combining them. so i'm going to finish this pack as scheduled, and then in the next pack only take the first 3 weeks then skip on to a new pack (so it makes me skip my period for the start of july and instead will make me have my period i think it's like the last week of july, or something like that. i ahve it all written out). so i just wanted to thank you so much for your help!!
also , just a random question, how much does the effectiveness of the pill change if during the 2nd week of pills you accidentally take at 5 pm instead of 10:30 am... clearly, not within the +/- 2 hours, but how much does the percentage actually drop? we didnt' have sex, because again, we're waiting until august, but i'm just curious for future reference. thanks!!
Hi again hon,
Jill