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I'm on birth control and i want to skip my period that is supposed to start next week. is it safe to skip the last row and continue the active pills?
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Yes: Yes and i would also inform your doctor. You might want to go on continuous contraception.
Answered 3/5/2014
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Some people do: If a healthy woman is using combination birth control pills, and each pill has the same dose of 2 ingredients, and she has been using the pills for many months, she can skip placebo pills and just start a new packet of pills. For example, she takes 12 weeks of active pills and then 1 week of placebo pills, thus has 4 periods each year. Doctor can recheck, if there is bleeding in between periods.
Answered 11/8/2019
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