Running Pill packs together every month

Hey.

I'm sorry, I bet there are a thousand of these threads but I scanned back 5 pages and didn't see one, so I thought it would be ok to post my own question:

Basically, I've been taking the Pill for maybe 5 months now, and last month I decided to run two packs together because I had a busy weekend ahead and didn't want my period. Absolutely fine, no adverse effects - hooray! So now I'm thinking, can I just do this every month? It would be so much more convenient, with starting Uni coming up, etc. I'm on Microgynon 30, and I know some women take contraceptives and just don't have periods at all, but is this how they do it, or is it a different type of the Pill or a different method altogether?

I remember my doctor saying the "period" isn't actually real or necessary but girls like it so they're body feels more natural, but I'm really not fussed about them. They just make me feel grotty for days and then there's the expense of Tampax etc...

So er.. yeah. Any thoughts? Thanks, Kath xx

Reply 1

Lauren Hart

3

you can only take 3 together at a time, and the "periods" are worse after. If you want a permanant solution, go onto injection that stops your periods alltogether, you shouldnt keep running your pill together.

Reply 2

ladyportacabin

8

It's ok to do it now and again, but probably not good in the long term.

I wouldn't recommend the injections personally, I had a lot of side effects with them. Be sure to talk it over properly with the Doc if you're considering them.

Reply 3

kristin

Lauren Hart

you can only take 3 together at a time, and the "periods" are worse after.

I think that might depend on which pill you're on though....I just went traveling for 5 months and wanted to avoid my period. So I went to the doctor and she gave me Yasmin and told me it was quite fine to run all the packs together for those 5 months, but I shouldn't keep doing it forever. I did get some spot bleeding though, and you risk that when you run packs together, but my period was not any worse than usual when I got it after those five months.

Reply 4

bedbug

14

Nope you're not meant to run that many packs together, but from what I understand, as long as you have at least 4 periods a year then you can skip all the others. Of course, these periods will be a lot nastier than if you were to have one every month.

Reply 5

emily87

9

Lauren Hart

you can only take 3 together at a time, and the "periods" are worse after. If you want a permanant solution, go onto injection that stops your periods alltogether, you shouldnt keep running your pill together.

It depends on your own body. I can run 3 together and then have a totally normal on time 'period'. Periods are expensive and a pain!

Reply 6

Kate.

15

I can run 3 packs together at most, then I start spotting. I usually take 2 in a row, then have a break, then another 2. My period is no heavier/worse than it is if I have 1 pack and then the break... My doctor doesn't really approve but from all of the research I've done it seems fine to do.

Reply 7

bunthulhu

14

I'm on Microgynon 30ED, my doctor said no more than every 6 months. I wouldn't be surprised if there were negative internal effects on the womb? It means it's forced to keep it's lining? Couldn't it potentially affect fertility or something?

Reply 8

Janina1986

go and talk to your doctor, everyone has different experiences and different pills. i'm on a european pill (family lives abroad) and take it for 6 months in a row.. no bleeding, no heavy periods after, no pains.. nothing. I have spoken to several specialists at family planning and sexual health clinics and they said there are no known negative effects of running packs together if you use the right pill.
If you talk to your doctor and your pill is appropriate for running packs together then just try it out. If your body doesn't like it then you will definitly notice i.e. bleedings, pains etc.

Reply 9

Segat1

16

I haven't had one for 6 months, my doc advised me about it and said it was ok. It's different for everyone. Chat to your doc about it.

Reply 10

Hallie

My doctor wont give me medicine for a medical condition I have because of the side effects but is encouraging me to take the injection that stops period. Either he doesn't think the effects are too bad or there are different ones to the one that ladyportacabin was on... If so, I'd go for the injection. So long as you're fine with needles of course!

Reply 11

dusk

The pill causes you to have a permanent lining to your uterus; the bleeding between packs is breakthrough bleeding, which, I believe, you will start to get anyway, even without breaks, after linking too many packs together, so in the long run, the whole purpose would be lost.

Running Pill packs together every month

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