Can GP prescribe pill to miss a period?

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DD has heavy and painful periods. She’s just realised that her next period is due when she is doing her Duke of Edinburgh expedition, and she’s really worried about it. They are camping and walking for two nights/days and I just don’t think she’ll manage with the pain if her period arrives. Ask I can think of is asking the GP if she can take the contraceptive pill as a temporary measure to stop her period just that month? Has anyone else managed to get this from their GP? Or any other ideas??

They can prescribe but there's no guarantee it will work.

You can request medication to delay your period. Take it 3 days before you are due, then continue for as long as you need it delayed for. Ive been given it for beach holidays etc.

I'm pretty sure you can buy it over the counter. My daughter got it when she was going Ibiza and I don't recall her going through doctors to get it.

Norethisterone can be used to delay a period
What age is she?

@dementedpixie She’s 15 next week

You can get from Boots

Yes I had it when I went on holiday

It’s not ideal but at a push you can order them on the internet- I’ve used simply meds before, type in period delay and it gives you the options. It’s also reviewed by a pharmacist, I do actually use Norethisterone a few times a year and it works well, I also have heavy and rough periods.

I'd just get her on the contraceptive pill and stay on it.
She can run packets together or take say 5 weeks and then a break.
It will help not just with DofE but also with summer holidays and in y11 exams.

I've ordered the period delay pills from Superdrug, although I would doubt they offer the online service to 15 year olds (I just had a look and I couldn't see any question specifically about that). When I was your DD's age I definitely got it prescribed by the GP but I do think I'd just go into a pharmacy and ask about it.

Yes, I have had norethisterone or utrogestan before. You take them three or four times a day (can't remember which) from three or four days before you are due a period and continue until after the holiday/event you wanted to delay it for.

For me they certainly worked (very heavy, flooding periods), though the period was heavier when I stopped taking the tablets and it was allowed to arrive.

I don't think her being 15 stops them being prescribed for her.

DD has been prescribed the contraceptive pill since last year for period pain. She’s 16 now. Absolute lifesaver and she’s stopped worrying about how to cope with extreme period pain during her GCSEs in May/June. I went along to GP appointment with her, it was absolutely fine and a not uncommon request.

Yes they can - my DD had this prescribed for exactly the same reason and it worked fine. The only downside was that the delayed period when it arrived was heavier and more painful than normal, but preferable to dealing with a heavy period whilst walking all day and weeing al fresco!

There's a tablet called northisarone that will delay periods but ive always found the period after so so bad

Can I ask whether she takes it continually (so no periods) or does she still have a break?

I'm not Puppy but my DD has a 4 day break about every 5-6 weeks as otherwise she gets breakthrough bleeding. But we can time when she has the break to be convenient.

She has mostly been taking it continuously iyswim - she has a week off every couple of months but other than that goes straight through to the next packet - the doctor said this would be fine. When she has the week off she has a “period” which still gives her a tummy ache but nothing like the period pain she used to get.

I know it’s not the solution for everyone but even if she is on it for just a few years to get her through GCSEs and A levels etc, it will have done its job!