YOUNG-WOMEN Messages for August, 2000: Re: Wedding/BCP advice

Re: Wedding/BCP advice

From: Claudia Twisdale RN (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 8 Aug 2000 17:56:34 -0500 (CDT)

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If period is not conflicting with wedding, I would not adjust pills at all, you will have enough stress and nerves without the added confusion of pill changes. Many happy days and hope yours is long marriage!

At Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Taryn wrote: >
>I am taking Lo/Ovral 28 and am scheduled to have my period the week
>after my wedding. Due to the bad mood I am usually in in the few days
>before my period, I would like to alter the dates of my period. My
>doctor recommended that I skip the last week of my active pills and
>prompt my period a week early. Thus, I should be finished with my
>period by my wedding. She said this may cause the next few periods to
>be weird.
>
>Now I am wondering if I should alter my next period and run the risk
>that the one before my wedding is weird or if I should alter the one
>before my wedding and risk mood/bloating side effects? Which would you
>think would produce the best results?
>
>Also, I am wondering if I can prolong this period by not starting my
>active pills for one more week (a two week period?) and just push my
>period back one week?
>
>I am not concerned with having to use extra birth control for a while--
>only with how my body may react.

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