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[greenfairy03.livejournal.com]

okay....this month I did something really different with my birth control pills, and I'm going to try to describe it without getting confusing. For the past 7 months, I have been on birth control Cyclessa pills, taking them every morning between 7:30 and 8:30am. However, this month that changed...at the first pill of this month's pack, I waited to take it till 7pm on the day that I usually take it at 7:30am, because I forgot. I figured, no big deal, it's the very first day of the new pack anyway, so I'll just switch to taking my pills at night instead of in the morning. I figured since my body had been getting nothing but sugar pills for the previous week, the best time to change the time I take my pill would be the first pill of the new pack. However, two days ago I was so sick of taking the pill at night...it was totally messing me up and for some reason I had weird mood swings because of it. No physical symptoms or anything, just didn't like taking it at night. So, Monday night, I took it at night as usual...then Tuesday morning I took it at 7:30am like I used to, because I wanted to switch back. I figured, since the switch involved going back in time and not forward, my body would still have the required amount of hormones if I took it at 7:30am that day. Basically I took the "switch" pill 12 hours early, to get myself back on track. Since then I have happily been taking it at 7:30 everymorning, no signs of any sort of hormonal foul play thus far. Has anyone else ever done this sort of crazy switcharoo with their birth control pills? Did it work out okay? I'm not worried about pregnancy (any more than usual) because my body was never without the hormones...it only doubled up for about 12 hours that one day. I just wanted to post this to see if anyone else had done anything similar.

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[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Occasionally that sort of thing might cause spotting, because of the drop in hormone levels that happens when you take two pills 12 hours apart and then take the next one 36 hours after that... should be okay though.

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

except that she'd be taking hte next one 24 hours later, and not 36- so she should be fine...

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Doh.

Heat has addled my brain.

My understanding is that it is not so much the amount of hormone in the bloodstream that can trigger spotting as a substantial drop.

But yes, should be fine.