Re: [Birth Control] Changing my Start Date for the Birth Control Pill
From: Alicia M. Lapidus M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:53:00 -0600 (CST)
You have a third choice. You can take the next pack of pills untill the
last saturday and stop it (you will not take 4 pills) and the next pack
you'll have to begin on sunday. I think that is the best way.
At Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Sue wrote:
>
>Hello,
>I've been on Diane 35 for 6 months now. I'm supposed to start my pack
>of pills Today (Thurs, Jan 23, 2003) - it's always on Thursdays that I
>start a new pack of pills and I HATE it because I almost always forget.
>I want to move my 'Start Day' to a Sunday. I was thinking that there's
>two ways I could do this.....
>
>1) I could wait and take my first pill tomorrow so I then have Fridays
>as my start day. Next month I could do the same thing: wait a day and
>have Saturday as my Start Day. I would need to do so for the next 3
>months I would be slowly pushing back my Start Day to Sunday..... but I
>know there's some risk that the pill won't be as effective so I should
>use other birth control methods too :( OR..
>
>2) I could take my first pill today and then at the end of this pack, I
>could take 3 pills from a new pack for 3 extra days. That would push
>back my period and, in effect, change my Start Day. There may be less
>risk of getting pregnant this way but... I would be wasting the rest of
>the second pack of pills and potentially messing up my body by taking
>more pills in one cycle than I should be.
>
>Any suggestions???
>Thanks
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Alicia M. Lapidus M.D.
Director Obgyn.net Latina
Chief of Staff Obstetrics, Hospital J. A. Fernández
Buenos Aires
Argentina
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