Pill to delay period for 13 year old whilst on school residential?

[purplepandas]

Hello,

Has anyone been able to get meds to briefly delay their young teen's periods for school camp or holiday reasons please? This has just been landed on me with about 10 days to go! I can see the issue, she is newly diagnosed as autistic so the whole idea of a residential is tricky as it is.

Thanks

PP

They may be easier to get online. I know that many GP's don't prescribe them anymore as they are not essential so takes up too much time.

DD took norethisterone on her school trip to Africa last year. She was 15 at the time and it delayed her period until she returned home. It was suggested by school as something girls had done in previous years.
We put in an online request to the GP and they were fine about it.

I don't think you will be able to get this online for an under 16, but my GP was happy to prescribe it for my 13-year-old after a consultation. I think they also checked her blood pressure.

Thanks all, really appreciate it! I can try and get an appt for her if pharmacy won't. I thought the pharmacy might not.

will she remember to take it, its 1 tablet 3 times a day

When I need bits the local Pharmacy don't have or won't give me I use an online pharmacy - Chemist-4-U I have used them for years. My DD hasn't started her periods yet but I have got loads of period pants for her incase it happens at school. Maybe that might be an option if you can't stop her period coming in time? I hope she enjoys her trip

Thanks for the help with this. No online services will prescribe. Needs to be GP so that's a bloody lottery as they have no appts.

DD has period pants but it is all so stressful for her ATM.

Are you in the UK you could try use the LIVI app to speak to a GP

But having a period is part of life- would you really rather medicate than educate?

Are you male? Periods are an absolute pain. Just because something is part of life doesn’t mean we should accept it, especially when there is a CHOICE. Good on op for allowing her daughter the freedom to have a choice.

Op, hope you manage to get sorted!

I mean why vaccinate ? Because polio is part of life right? Why take painkillers, because I mean pain is a part of life right? Why use light bulbs, because lets face it daylight and lack of is a part of life right - why not just live in the darknin winter ? Antibiotics... pff .... infections are a part of life. Why get a car when you could walk ? Having legs thats just life right? And if you don't have working legs .. well thats life too right ?

Love your reasoning.

The Middle Ages pinged - they want you back.

Yes, and she will have them as part of her life for many many more years to go.
Taking well known, been around for years, medication to prevent them for a short while really doesn't affect her from being educated and living with periods. Infact it's education to know that there are things that can be done to stop them temporarily or delay them a whole, if required. Many women take the pill back to back to do just that ], whilst still very much knowing about periods and their own cycles.

I don't know if GPs prescribe to younger teens but it's worth asking if it's a possibility.

@purplepandas in the past I ordered norethisterone from Dr Fox online, I'm sure it will have information on there whether if it is suitable for in your DD's situation. Pretty sure that was hassle free when I ordered and came within a couple of days.

For real??!'n

Thanks @lou9393 , they are either 16 or 18 only sadly too. All online are, have tried loads. Ignoring the other ridiculous comment but thanks for the back up, I am overly fragile ATM as things a real mess and at a crisis point with DD. Obv the other poster CBA to read that.

@YoungWild , thanks for the LIVI tip! Will try.

I'm obviously not suggesting this for you, but if it were me in this situation I would be tempted to order it for myself and let my daughter have it. I could check her blood pressure myself at home.

Very much female, with periods for a very long time. Daughters who had this issue, the lot.

I’ve seen how chemically messing with women’s hormones can cause huge issues ( anxiety/ depression etc). It’s unlikely that side affects are not properly reported because they never bloody are.

It is part of our basic biology. Learning how to adapt/ cope with it is part of growing up female.

Which is why I’m wondering if it is really easier to mess with her body chemically, or accept that this is a learning experience, and just help her prepare for it.

@Dotcheck , you have no idea how my daughter is right now. Twice I have said she is close to autistic burnout. Perhaps I might know better than you what is best for my daughter? Questioning my parenting right now is also nothelpful to me, it's rough right now.

A massive thank you @YoungWild , I managed it via Livi today. Expensive but it was worth it for her and for me (she is so stressed and I am literally at the end of my tether after the most awful few months). So mega thanks.

I did think about that @Novella12 , but just couldn't do it (was tempting!) I have her weight/heigh/BP from the GP machine a couple of days ago which did help today.

Thanks all, I really did appreciate the help and also for supporting my thinking about this.

OP
I can’t see a post that says she is close to burnout?
You didn’t say she has heavy or painful periods.

Of course I don’t think I know better, I was presenting an opinion.

And (PP’s) saying questioning medicating to delay a period is the same as being anti vax is ridiculous.

@Dotcheck , fair point, I did say things were at a real crisis point for my daughter though (post of 6.40) and also a recent diagnosis of autism. Things are at a real crisis point for both of us (please feel free to check my other posts) and I just needed kindness and help. Right now, she can't even decide what to eat some days as it is overwhelming.

@purplepandas it won't help with such short notice, but my autistic girls take the contraceptive pill back to back for about 4 months, then have a break to allow a bleed. It means they only have to go through periods 3 times per year. It might be worth asking the GP about it.

Thanks @Lougle , I did wonder about this as periods are such a huge sensory challenge on top of everything else. Thank you for letting me know . Will PM you.