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Can I Stop Pills Early And Have Periods Before? Any Effect?

I ve been on the birth control pill for a few years. I m on my third week and should be starting my period around next Wednesday. I m supposed to take a pill tonight but I forgot my pills somewhere and won t be able to get them back until two days from now. Is it okay to stop taking my pills now and start my period five days early and then just relabel my pills next week to start taking them again next Wednesday? I d prefer to do that as I m going camping next week and it would be nice to not be on my period the whole time. If I do this should I start my pills on Wednesday every week or could I just start late or early the following week to get back to starting on Sundays? I know that this will probably make the pill less effective and I plan to use other protection until I get back on track. I just want to make sure this isn t going to make me sick and that my period will actually start early like I want it to. Thank you
Fri, 18 Oct 2013
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Hi,
Thanks for the query.
If you want to stop the pills in the middle of the month, you have to use some additional contraceptive method till the completion of the month as you told.
And possibly you may get the withdrawal bleeding earlier.
But sometimes it is difficult to guess the time of onset of withdrawal bleeding because this can differ from cycle to cycle and person to person.
So if you are having at least 7 to 10 days gap for your vacation, you can stop the pills and wait for withdrawal bleeding.
If the gap is short, better to continue the tablets.
And after completion of the pack, if you want to avoid the withdrawal bleeding, continue the next pack without gap.
This will prevent withdrawal bleeding and also give contraceptive benefit.
Take care.
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Can I Stop Pills Early And Have Periods Before? Any Effect?

Hi, Thanks for the query. If you want to stop the pills in the middle of the month, you have to use some additional contraceptive method till the completion of the month as you told. And possibly you may get the withdrawal bleeding earlier. But sometimes it is difficult to guess the time of onset of withdrawal bleeding because this can differ from cycle to cycle and person to person. So if you are having at least 7 to 10 days gap for your vacation, you can stop the pills and wait for withdrawal bleeding. If the gap is short, better to continue the tablets. And after completion of the pack, if you want to avoid the withdrawal bleeding, continue the next pack without gap. This will prevent withdrawal bleeding and also give contraceptive benefit. Take care.