Contraception- Gynie says it was fine to take COMBINED PILL 3 months in a row. Anyyone done and it was ok?

[bracingair]

About to start my 3rd month of 'back-to-back'.

Gp says only to do it occassionally, but the lovely gynecologist i saw said you can have 4 periods in a year if you want! So anyone done it and been fine?

Thanks
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Yes. And I was fine. Family planning clinic doctot advised me to do this as I got bad withdrawal headaches.

This happens quite a bit. I've not done it muyself, but I've read a lot of stuff on this (used to be my job) and it is not uncommon.

For some women who take anticonvulsant drugs it is a recomendadtion that the do this.

There isn't a medical 'need' for the withdrawl bleed at all, people just find it re-assuring

IIRC I read somewhere once that there isn't really much of a medical reason not to do it back-to-back. The 'cycle' you have on the pill is really a mimicry of a cycle. Maybe it takes you longer to become regular again once you stop? (I always had the 7-day break and found I was perfectly regular after coming off, whereas I hadn't been before starting).

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Yup it's fine.

Technically you could take the combined pill constantly and never have a break, as the "period" (withdrawal bleed) you get was only introduced to make women feel more 'normal' anyway!

However if you back-to-back more than about 3 packets you are more likely to get breakthrough bleeding. Won't do you any harm though.

oh good, this is brilli

...brilliant!

anyone not had a good experience?

MB is right.

I was told by a consultant on my gynae course, many moons ago, that the pill was originally invented to be a continuous course to stop periods altogether.They built in the week off later on as the first trials showed that the ladies trying it out didn't like not knowing where they were in their cycle.

He reckoned you could have 1 or 2 periods a year to "clear out" & be safe!

I had that breakthrough bleeding that Sidge described, which was a bit of a bummer. But I did the 2 at a time think loads of times, very handy. I quite miss it now I'm doing what nature intends! (And at the mo she intends every 3 weeks, the bitch!)

thank you all. I think i will ask an another thread if anyone had a bad experience to get a balanced view!

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I have been doing this for about 10 years (with the exception of two pregnancies) on insruction from my gynae to control Endometriosis. It has worked a treat so far