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Thursday, November 17, 2005

So, Mr. Wonderful will be coming on Sunday to stay with me for week. A WEEK! I've been looking forward to this for weeks and weeks now. Last week, while taking my nightly pill, I realized something.

Goddamnit!

Yes, Mr. Wonderful and Aunt Flow have scheduled their visit for the same week. I've long since discovered the best way to deal with this problem, but it is still a huge pain in the ass. So, I will try to skip. I've tried this in the past, but I ended with with a 3 week period, instead of no period at all. Doing the research though, it appears I may have gone about it the wrong way.

I am on Ortho-Try Cylen, which, as the name suggests, a tri-phasic pill, meaning each week, for 3 weeks, the levels of drugs are different each week. This makes it hard to skip a period since the hormones are reduced week to week. Monophasic pills are consistent therefore make it easier to skip.

When I brought my skipping a period this week to Dr. Oops, his response was "tough". Instead of acting on the impulse of grabbing him by his three chins and hurling him out the 5th story window, I laughed and said "okay", vowing to get my real information on the Internet.

I know, probably not the soundest route to take, but, hey, there it is. So, in case you didn't check it out, the blog above suggests taking the 2nd pack of pills in reverse. This makes sense. Instead of going from the lowest hormone pill to the highest without the 7 day placebo pills, you take 2 weeks of the lowest, then gradually work your way back up.

So, I will begin this little experiment on Sunday, and see how it goes. I will report the results.



-- posted by Jenn at Thursday, November 17, 2005

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3 Comments:

Or. . .

You could just skip the 7 day placebos altogether, and simply start next months once you've finished this month's (sans placebo)

BTW, strangly, my Aunt Flo is currently on Day Fucking 15!

By Blogger Cool Girl Rocks!, at 5:27 PM  

Yeah, no, that doesn't work. That what how I tried it the first time, and I had a 3 week period. If I go from the end of one pack to the beginning of another, I think it just confuses the hell out of my uterus and it just decides to punish me. But if I start at the *end* of the next pack, it should logically work.

By Blogger Jenn, at 9:12 AM  

yeah, you can't go from super low to super high dose in one day, your body will freak out. go for monophasic, or get one of the new 'seasonale' type pills. and a new doctor.

xox.

or, get pregnant,then you get no period for 9 months, then a big ass one after, but then none again if you breastfeed. probably.

By Blogger Jallápenno, at 11:56 AM  

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