Does anyone know if it's okay to skip your inactive pills when you're taking extended pills like Seasonale or Daysee? I'm on these pills where I only have a period once every three months. However, the end of the three months just happens to fall on this week-long trip to my mother-in-law's house (which is stressful enough as it is.) Is there any harm in going straight through six whole months without a period? Or can I take a week of active pills while at the mother-in-law's, and then after my trip take the inactive pills in order to have a period, or would that screw up the whole new pill pack? Thanks!
I would ask my doctor but I know people who have extended their cycle this way. I would do 4 months and then two months if it were me.
Call your doctor. We are not medical people.
Yep. It's perfectly safe and okay to skip the inactive pills and your period. Just switch over to the next pack and keep going. Nothing is going to be screwed up.
Enjoy your trip.
Yes, i've been doing it for years. My midwife encouraged it. She said when my body needs to have a period, it will happen no matter what. Then I stop taking them for 4 days and then go right back on.
Ask your doctor, but as someone who's taken pills straight through (skipping the fake period week) since 2000, it sounds fine. Seasonale is just packaged nicely for this, but you can take the pill straight through with any monophasic brand.
I went longer than six months without a period on my doctor's advice (even the fake period weeks you get on the pill make me very sick). Just be sure to bring some supplies with you in case you get spotting.
BTW, isn't this option fantastic? Life changing difference with this pill plan.
S. O - long time, no see!!!
I would ask your doctor. I am pretty sure it wouldn't be a problem (if you don't have other medical concerns), but you should always check with your doctor about stuff like this. They won't think you're weird or be bothered you asked. Just give them a call, and ask the nurse to call you back with the answer.
I believe my doctor offered me that option (the extended pills) and said I could even do it one after the other so that I only had a period once a year or something. Not really sure, its been a few years ago and I didn't go that route.
Just call your doctor. No big deal. And they won't charge you to find this out, either. Just call.
