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I already took one sugar pill is it ok to skip the rest to avoid your period?
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∙ 11y ago
Yes, you can start the next pack now with no increased risk of pregnancy.
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What happens if you take one sugar pill of your birth control and skip the rest and still have a light period?
As long as you start your next packet on or before the date you were scheduled to start, skipping the sugar pills does not change the effectiveness of using the pill. You may be asking about starting the next pack early. You can do so, but the timing and amount of bleeding you have is a bit unpredictable. This may be the situation about which you're asking. Lastly, if it's your first pack of birth control pills, you may have choice noticed that hormonal birth control like the pill can make your period lighter than it was without the pill.
What happens if you accidentally take an active pill on a day you were suppose to take a sugar pill?
Nothing will happen.
If you finish your active pills on a Saturday and do not take the first sugar pill on Sunday and start the new pack on Monday will you still skip your period?
Yes you will. I use to play around with the start and stop days when I was on the pill. You may have some spotting. Just make sure you don't miss pills and that you stay on them.
What is a sugar pill and what does it do?
A sugar pill is what women take to start their period. It allows the period to start.
What are the chances of getting pregnant by skipping your sugar pills and ot having a period?
Skipping sugar pills to avoid a period reduces, and does not raise, your risk of getting pregnant on the pill.
You haven't had your period yet and you only have the last sugar pill left if you skip it will you still get your period?
Since there is no active medication in the sugar pill, eating it or not eating it has no effect on your period.
Should you get your period the first day of the sugar pills?
Not exactly.. your period can occur as late as the 4th sugar pill
How do you prolong my period for a few days on the pill?
Keep taking the normal pill and you won't get your period.. Skip the sugar pills completely.
You just got a prescription to birth contol and you started your period do you take the active pill or the sugar pill?
If you just got them then i would wait until sunday or the day after you stop your period and you will start with pill number 1 then go to the sugar pills which you take while you are on your period!
Can you stop your menstrual cycle by taking a pill?
If you're already on your period then the pill may reduce the flow of your period but will not stop it. However if you're not on your period you can stop your period by taking the pill but it isn't advisable as a permanent thing.
Why do you have a period like pain and am not on my period?
This has happened to me, im on the pill and thought i'd missed a period cause i was on my 4th sugar pill on my pill free week, but i then came on on my 5th sugar pill.The contraceptive pill can mess with your period massively.Im currently waiting for my period and im on my 3rd sugar pill so dont worry yet!Are you getting period pains at all? cause i do and it lets me know im going to be on late.xXx
Can the pill be taken during menstrual period?
Depending on what brand of pill you use, yes. Certain brands have white pills (sugar pills) that are meant to be taken during your period.
Havent had a period for 2 months but not pregnant should you keep taking pill?
If you want to avoid pregnancy, you should keep taking the pill.
You havent started your period but you have cramps and brown spotting at the end of your sugar pills?
That sounds like a typical period when on the pill.
Is it safe to stop birth control when period exist?
You are suppose to be off of the pill while you have your period. The pills you take during your period are only sugar and do nothing.
