Skipping green pills to miss my period??

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Registered: 09-15-2003
Skipping green pills to miss my period??
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Mon, 09-29-2003 - 11:10pm
ok here is my question :

I am on birthcontrol and this thursday coming up Oct. 2 I am suppose to start my period but on Sunday insead of taking the green pills I took the white ones , so I could miss my period this month. I had unprotected sex on Sept.29 and I wondering if I could get pregnant because I stoped taking the green pills and started a new pack.

Please help

thank you in advance

Jess




Edited 9/29/2003 11:16:38 PM ET by jess6688

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Registered: 09-29-2003
Mon, 09-29-2003 - 11:53pm
No. When your on the white pills you don't ovulate at all. Then when you start the green ones, the bleeding is called break through bleeding from the sudden lack of hormones. So skipping them will not cause you to ovulate. In fact there are many people who will regularly only have period every 3-4 months by doing this. They are working on bringing out a new pill that is specially made for this. Up until now there was a lot of controversy over weather it was safe to skip your periods like this, and they now know its not harmful. So you should be fine. I would think that if someone made a habit of doing this, I would test every other month just to be safe, since you won't have a period. Just in case you happen to be in the 1% of which the pill may fail. Good Luck.