Period delay tablets for Dd

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I’ve never taken them.
We’re going on holiday and dd only recently started her periods and will come on during the holidays. Are period delay tablets ok for her to take? Are there side effects?

You'd likely need them prescribed by a doctor if she's quite young. Yes there can be side effects. what age is she?

You can get period swimwear these days if she wouldnt use tampons

Goodness no, please don’t pump her full of hormones for the sake of convenience. Period pants are your best bet!

Thanks. I had friends suggest it and I honestly didn’t even know there was such a thing.

I have taken them but in early adulthood. They were fine for me and they did the job but it is essentially a mega dose of hormones. If she’s only just started her period then she is far too young to be playing with that stuff. And they do need to be prescribed. I couldn’t find anything online on the minimum age they would be prescribed but i would guess (hope) it’s at least 16+

This is not correct the GP prescribed them for my DD at 11. In the end she didn’t take them but they were prescribed.

Please don’t guess.

OP speak to the GP who absolutely should be able to prescribe something.

Yes no way I would use those for a child who's new to periods. Use period swimwear.

DD had them last year (age 15) as we were going away and she only uses period pants and would have struggled (city break). Doctor wouldn’t prescribe them we had to go to our pharmacy for them.
we are getting them again this year as she has an event and she is due the same day.

Just get her some period swimwear.

DD had some last year for holiday (she turned 14 whilst we were away). The GP was perfectly happy to prescribe them and she had no ill effects. Your first period after taking the course can be quite a bit heavier though, or at least that’s my personal experience.

Tampons?

Are you flying? They increase the chance of blood clots so she would need to be careful, particularly if you’re flying long-haul.

Younger girls sometimes don't want to use those.

GP were useless. "We dont do that" but pharmacy won't prescribe to under 16s.

Why were you telling your friends when your daughter was next due on her period? Talk about an invasion of privacy!

DD(18) has just taken them as she was off-grid travelling in Africa. It was a fairly last-minute thing (not a chance of getting a GP appt), so we did an online consultation with a Superdrug GP (needed to specify reason plus give height and weight and blood-pressure etc).

She had been using a period-tracker for a good few years so it was easy to predict when to take them. No obvious symptoms.

In your situation I think I’d organise a rush order from Modibodi for a period swimsuit and shorts etc.

Lol it’s hardly a secret girls have periods. Conversations usually have contexts. The conversation was about trying to find a holiday during dates that’s suitable for everyone including dh’s work and seeing dd had a really tough year, I wanted her to chill and try to find dates that wasn’t during her period as she loves swimming. So friends suggested period delay tablets. Hardly an invasion of privacy.

What did you decide in the end? My daughter has just asked about taking them again. We still have the ones prescribed before that she didn’t end up taking.