Hi! I have a question. I am on the Ortho-Evra patch. And I usually start my period on Wednesday and I usually put the patch back on, on Sunday's. I was wondering if I put the patch on earlier than that, would it slow or stop my period?
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Question?
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The patch is every month, so i hopeyou dont mean ever sunday. You can expect your menstrual period to begin a few days after removing the third birth control patch (during the fourth, "patch-free" week).
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I am sorry. I must have worded my question wrong. I have been on the birth control patch and change my patch every sunday for 3 weeks, and get my period within the 4 week where I dont wear a patch. My question is, if I want to change my patch change day to Saturday, would this slow or stop my period?
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my guess would be no, it would just be a day earlier
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is there any way that you can slow down your period or even stop it. I thought taking the birth control hormones would help with slowing it down.
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I know there is a pill that gives you four periods a deal, called seasonell or something like that
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yah i know i've read about it. and if you read everything about that birth control pill then it says that you can breakthrough bleed for like a month. I think that defeats the whole purpose of the pill.
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Oh yikes i didnt know that, i think the only thing most birth controls do is regulate your period
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well the reason i wanted to know was because i changed my patch today instead of tomorrow. i had plans for tomorrow and monday for a mini vacation and usually my period is gone by today, so i changed my patch today to see if it would slow down my period for tomorrow. so i guess we'll see....im hoping...
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I don't know about stopping ur period while it's happening, but what you can do is next time, is put on a patch on the forth sunday, basically just keep going on the patches with out a break for two months. That will cause you to skip your period that month. Now, don't make that a habbit, and do it every month, cuz you need to have a period. I do it with my pills when ever there's a special event that happens to fall on my period week. The patch has the very same ingredients that the pill has, so it'll work.