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[ravenfyre.livejournal.com]

my period this month was so fricken' WEIRD. but i guess that's to be expected. but still.

i tried to skip it three weeks ago with alesse... worked for the first week and a half, and then i started breakthrough bleeding, which wasn't fun at all. bled for almost two weeks - after the first week i decided to just stop taking my active pills and make my period come so i wouldn't have to go a third week with bleeding. blech.

anyways, friday morning it's still really heavy (i usually get my period on a thursday, so i figured even with the skipping period i would still go through withdrawal as usual when i went off the actives)... friday afternoon i go to my boyfriend's house, change my keeper around 4. still pretty heavy. eight hours later i go to change it again, and there's nothing there! i haven't had anything since then either. i don't get it... first it was heavy, and then suddenly it disappears the same day. poof.

weeeeeeird.

remind me never to try skipping my period on this pill again, unless i extend my active pills for only a week (instead of three weeks, thus getting my period every five weeks instead of four).... argg. such hassle.

:P

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[kwokj.livejournal.com]

I used to be on Marvelon and it worked fine for skipping periods, but while I was on it, I had a massive allergic reaction to a sunscreen and a doctor at a walk in clinic with a bit of an agenda suggested that BCPs were making my general allerginess worse (I now attribute it to my age... allergies sometimes go haywire or more severe in your early 20s... now, where am I going with this?) Anyway, going off the pill entirely was not an option, because I was taking them for massive cramps, so I asked my regular doctor for a prescription to something lower dose, and so I was on Allesse for a few months. I found them too weak. I was always a little careless about taking my pills exactly on time since I wasn't concerned with birth control, and slipping up on Marvelon was never a problem. But one mistep on Allesse and I was liable to start spotting, and I would definitely have cramps when my period came.

And yeah, it did not work at all when I tried to skip a period with them. They just weren't strong enough to override my own hormones and I ended up with some crazy long period-spotting thing until I got back on schedule. So back to Marvelon it was, until last summer, when I decided it was a convenient time to see if I'd outgrown the cramps (which I have, yay!)

[ravenfyre.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's weird... i actually never had a problem with alesse when i accidentally missed a pill, no spotting or anything. but this just didn't seem to work with the skipping. ahh well. now i know :)

good to hear you outgrew those cramps though!