How To Skip Menstrual Cycle With Birth Control Pills?

Birth control pills are proved to be effective in delaying monthly menstrual cycle. Women have been in love-hate relationship with their monthly menstrual cycle. Study has shown that if the choice for period were given, majority would opt for delayed menstrual cycle. Though, to keep their feminism quite active, they do prefer to have monthly periods.

Why women wish to skip monthly periods?
Most common reasons are
- Present lifestyle has forced women to skip their periods or extend them so their personal and professional lifestyle do not get disturbed.
- some women may want to skip on medical grounds.
- most of them experience periods as the tough time because they experience sever cramping, headache, pain and heavy bleeding. These conditions make them very frustrated.

How you can skip the periods with help of birth control pills?
If you take the following steps, you will be able to skip or delay periods by taking birth control pills as instructed by your doctor or healthcare professional.

- You need to determine which month you want to skip. Do you want to skip only one month, two or three months or wish to remain period-free for the whole year.

- If you wish to remain absent for one month, take birth control pills of 21 or 28 cycles. Please click at birth control pills - preview to find the list of pills, injections and other methods of birth control with their cycles. Most commonly used 21 or 28 days pills are Yasmin & Yaz.

Please remember that 21 days cycles pills have only active pills whereas 28 days pills have 21 days active and 7 days place (inactive) pills. If you are on 21 days cycle, once you finished the pack, start the fresh pack from 22nd day and complete the second pack. If you stop taking pills between this second 21 days cycle period or after completion of 21 days, you should get your periods back.

Similarly, in 28 days cycles pills, continue to take active pills till 21 days and then start the new pack of active pills. Do not take 7 days placebo or inactive pills after 21 days. Once you stop taking active pills either with completion or without completion of 21 days, your periods will resume in a day or two.

However, in any case, if your periods do not resume within couple of days (maximum a week) once you stopped taking pills, you must consult your doctor or healthcare professional. You must be pregnant.

- If you wish to extend menstrual cycles for three months or ninety days, you can opt for birth control pills like Seasonale or Seasonique. Both pills are popular for extending periods as well as 99% guaranteed In protecting from unwanted pregnancies.

- If, however, you plan to remain period-free for the whole year, Lybrel is recommended. This is the only FDA-approved birth control pill, which can be taken 365 days a year. It completely stops period for the full year!

Tips:
1. When you plan to skip menstrual cycle for the month, please make sure that you have the back up of new pack of pills. You should not miss the day or else your period may resume

2. Please remember the days you started the pills and never miss the dose as prescribed. Missing any dose may not protect you from unintended pregnancy.

3. Some women are concerned about skipping the periods. They are reluctant to take birth control pills for this reason. It has been clinically proven that skipping period through pills is safe. You will be in total control of your body. You may resume menstrual cycle as and when you wish to.

4. If you always take birth control pills against insurance from the particular pharmacy then it could be possible that pharmacy might not allow you to take prescription continuously without taking placebo or inactive pills. If thats the case, please check with your pharmacy if they can allow you to buy insured pills to take on continuous basis skipping placebo or inactive pills.