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Good evening doctor, i wanna ask is that posible to stop periods for 1 day during periods??

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Dr. Dustin Colegrove answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

No: Once you are in the process of menstruation you can't stop for just one day midway through and have it resume the next day

Dr Noonan and another doctor agreed

Answered 7/31/2014

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