0
In some Birth Control brands, the green pills are active pills and should not be skipped. In other brands, the green pills are placebos (sugar pills or reminder pills) and can be skipped. Talk to your pharmacist or health care provider to get information specific to your brand of birth control pills.
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Will your period be late if you do not take the green pills?
In some birth control brands, the green pills are active pills and should not be skipped. In other brands, the green pills are placebos (sugar pills or reminder pills) and can be skipped. Talk to your pharmacist or health care provider to get information specific to your brand of birth control pills. If you skip active pills, your period will be early and you increase the risk of pregnancy. If you skip placebo pills, your period will be delayed.
If you skip the green pills and start your new pack as if you did take the green pills will you get your period?
NO. The green pills are just so you continue to take a pill every day. It is not a 'period' you have while on them just a 'withdrawal' bleed so if you want to skip it for a holiday or something, miss them out and go straight to the next pack.
Can you skip your green pills to get period faster?
In some birth control brands, the green pills are active pills and should not be skipped. In other brands, the green pills are placebos (sugar pills or reminder pills) and can be skipped. Talk to your pharmacist or health care provider to get information specific to your brand of birth control pills.
Can you skip the sugar pills if you're on yaz?
Yes, you can skip the sugar pills if you're on yaz
I am on Yasmin and i skip my period regularly but when i don't skip it my period comes when I am taking the sugar pills should it come here or when I am in the green section of the pack?
It's nice for you that it comes during the sguar pills each time. It's predictable for you. Count your blessings!
Can you skip sugar pills two months in a row?
Yes, you can skip the sugar pills multiple months in a row. I always skip my sugar pills for three months. Women don't actually need to have their period as often as we do.
Can fragile pills make you skip your periods?
when you too stressed you can skip your periods
How do you skip your period on ortho tri-cyclen?
After taking your three weeks of active pills, just skip the sugar pills in the last row and go directly into a new pack. You take 6 rows of active pills (all the active pills from 2 packs) and skip the period you would have gotten on the sugar pills
You have been on birth control for 5 months is it safe to purposely skip a period and instead of taking the green pills just going straight to a new pack?
Hello. You can skip a period while on birth control pills but constantly skipping periods via birth control pills, isn't recommended. Skipping a period this once will be fine.
Your period starts in a day and you want to skip it?
If you are on the pill, don't take the pills for your period week, skip directly to the pills for the following week. If you aren't on the pill, there is no way to skip a period.
Will you gain more weight if you are taking birth control pills but don't take the green ones so your period will stop?
Some women do gain weight while on contraceptive pills, and some do not. Skipping your period, or not taking the in-active green sugar pills, will not make you gain weight, it will just skip your period.
If you get your period early on in the cycle should you skip right to the sugar pills?
Hi, No never skip to sugar pills when this happens or it will throw your cycle off completely. Continue to take the pills as prescribed. So take the active pills and then the sugar pills when it is time.
