TMI Warning - BCP & AF timing question

JimmysBride Posted: Sep 22, 2004 09:45 AM

TMI Warning - BCP & AF timing question

Okay here's the thing.... AF is due the week before the wedding. Sucks for me, yes. I'm not sure how I want to handle it though.

I can delay it with the pill til AFTER the wedding. But I've never done that before... what if it doesn't 'work' right?

Or I can make it start a little earlier so that I way I don't have to worry about it at all on the HM but then I still have to deal with having it the week of the wedding....

What is the safer bet? I don't want to be all PMS-y the week of the wedding...

JenniferLee111204 Posted: Sep 22, 2004 09:48 AM

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why dont you give your gyno a call?

thats what i did. she was awesome. i did this months ago

jenn

DMcK Posted: Sep 22, 2004 09:51 AM

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Call your gyn. Sometimes if you try to skip it, you still get PMS and breakthrough. You need to plan in advance.

randella Posted: Sep 22, 2004 09:54 AM

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My friend did this for her wedding- although she did it MONTHS before the wedding to change her cycle- with your wedding so close, I do not recommend changing your hormonal balance.. She said she had a hard time and was very 'estrogen-y' for a while..

If you are due the week before- it will be gone for the wedding- and not PMSing on the honeymoon. I think you should stick with what you got.

btrflygrl Posted: Sep 22, 2004 09:55 AM

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I'd skip two months...that's what I did, I could have avoided it on the wedding or during the HM...I chose to start the skipping a month earlier and got AF when we got home from HM....I was a Little PMS-y before the wedding cuz that was the way the pills were but skipping has worked every time I've tried it except once, when I tried to skip for surgery, but got it anyway because my body went through a 'trauma' the nurse said

JimmysBride Posted: Sep 22, 2004 10:16 AM

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Thanks girls... I think I will stick with I got and deal with it before rather than having to worry about it during and playing with hormones.

Pipchick Posted: Sep 22, 2004 07:38 PM

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Definitely call the Dr. In March I was going to Jamaica so my Dr. told me which pills to skip so I got it a week early and didn't have to worry about it. Do it soon though so you will give yourself plenty of time to adjust.

checka Posted: Sep 22, 2004 08:28 PM

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I did this but my gyno wanted me to do it months in advance. You are all screwed up for a while and she said that during the month of the pack I started early, there was a chance of getting preggo. I am getting my period the week before the wedding too and we did it this way so I wouldn't get it on my honeymoon.