Period On Wedding Day

I'd ask your doctor what is best for you out of those two options. Some people skip the placebo week and still get their period.

Just skip it the last month. You don’t want to skip your period 3 months in a row that’ll mess you up!

Either option works, but I would check with your doctor and see what they recommend. It’s not unsafe to continuously skip the sugar pills as you aren’t getting a real period on birth control.

It's definitely best to ask your doctor, but you shouldn't need to skip your placebo pills for 3 months to skip one period.

Thanks everyone! I wanted to get different people's opinions considering the OBGYN i went to was not much help to me. I will be finding another.

I would check with your doctor or a pharmacist. Usually when I skip one placebo week I still get it, you can also just do the placebo week a week earlier if that makes sense. Or skip the placebos for two months, but I wouldn’t do it for 3

I would just do the last month, or you could try skipping the placebos the first month and seeing if that would make you get your next one a week earlier?

You could also ask for the kind that is 3 months long and just start it a month from now.

Well I tried asking the OBGYN When starting the first pack if I could take it a week earlier(or later) than should be to maybe throw off my cycle but he said that wouldn’t be a good idea.

Is your birth control only progesterone or combined estrogen and progesterone? Don't skip all three months. Skip only the placebo ones in the last month, cause if it has estrogen if, by any chance you ovulate, you'll end up getting a heavy period.

I always get my period the Wednesday of the placebo week. A couple months ago I realized my period was going to come when we were on vacation in Florida later this month. So I skipped a week between packages to push my period back a week. I should now get my period after we come home. I just made sure to use alternative contraception for a few weeks.

I feel for ya. According to my tracker I will be as well

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He put me on Lo Loestrin (haven't started it yet) But it is a combination of both

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Yeah only skip the placebo of the last month, but start taking it months in advance so that if you get any breakthrough bleeding he can switch it up to a higher dose by the time your wedding comes.

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Thanks! We are getting married in May so i'm stressing about this working. Birth Control in the past ( Low dosage) always gave me breakthrough bleeding and terrible side effects. I hope this one works okay for me

Well first I would never want to give medical advice as I am not a doctor, however from the 10 plus years I've taken some form of BC they say that there is no medical necessity to have a period. I am SO scared that I'll get my period too! But I'm on the sugar pill and it's been less than 2 months and by month 3 I shouldn't have one anymore.


Good luck!

The birth control he put me on his Lo Loestrin FE and there is only 2 sugar pills...Is this normal? Previous birth control years ago they had usually a weeks worth

This is what I'm so nervous about. I use an APP too to track mine and I'm not on birth control because I've had SUCH terrible reactions to the pill, the patch, the ring and I was just a bit too nervous to try the IUD. My body is a mess...but so far so good, but with wedding stress and exercise, I may need to come back to this thread and see these options through for myself if my period ends up starting on my wedding day!!!!!