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Im going on a vacation and my period is really heavy, ho can i stop it without birth control?
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Options: There are multiple options. Hormonal treatments such as birth control pills, Progesterone treatments and the Mirena (levonorgestrel) iud are effective reversible treatments that will help many people. There is also a drug called Lysteda that contains no hormones which will help others.
Answered 6/30/2014
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