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Birthcontrol if i take placebo pills, does it stop my period or will still have my period? what happen if i don't take the placebo pill & start a new
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Placebo pills: The placebo pills are there for your convenience to take pills daily. If you do not take the placebo pills, you will still have your period. You could stay off them, and when your period ends, simply restart the active pills.
Answered 4/24/2016
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The Pill: If you take the placebo, there will be a hormonal withdrawal and should be a withdrawal bleeding. It is an anovulatory (no egg) bleeding since the pill presumable stopped ovulation. If you continue with the pill, this bleeding will not occur.
Answered 11/28/2014
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Things don't change: The last week of pills in a 28-day pack are "inactive", so they do not change the effectiveness of the birth control pills if those last 7 pills are not taken. That means the effectiveness of the pack of pills is just as good, if one takes all 28 pills, or if one takes the first 21 pills, then takes nothing for 7 days, and then starts her next new pack of 28 pills. Withdrawal period still happens.
Answered 12/1/2014
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