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Will Birth Control help me?
I am a virgin who is getting married in a few months. I've been using a period tracking app for a couple years, and it is predicting for me to have my period on my wedding and honeymoon. I've been planning on going on birth control anyways to prevent pregnancy, but I've heard things about birth control pills being able to lessen period symptoms or even skip periods. Would this be possible for me? I really don't want to be on my period for my honeymoon. Any advice?
Hello. Congrats on the upcoming wedding. Yes, you can skip a period if you go on the pill. The pill has 3 weeks of hormones or the 'active pills' that you take and then a week of sugar pills or 'inactive pills' that you take. With the cessation of hormones, you have bleeding in that off week. It's not really a period because you never ovulated but it is more like spotting. So, what your doctor will have you do is to not take the week of sugar pills and just keep taking your pill straight through. You wouldn't want to do that every cycle but for the wedding/honeymoon . .. that's reasonable to do. But you need to get going so you are all set for that when the time comes so see your doctor 3 or so months before the wedding date. Is that possible?
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