Thread: Honeymoon birthcontrol help!!!

Hi everyone. I just realized I will be getting my period the day I leave for my honeymoon. It is one month away. I am on Ortho-tricyclen lo and normally I know you can skip the placebo week and start a new pack but I tried that once and it didn't work. I used to use the nuvaring and I wondering if I went back on it, that may work because you can leave that in for an extra week (which would postpone my period for a week). Has anyone ever had this happen to them? What did you do?

Thanks!

The reason the Ortho Tri Cyclen Lo didnt work is because that is a Triphasic level pill. That means each week of active pills is a different level of hormones. As far as I know you can only skip periods with a monophasic pill. Which is the same level of hormones in the active pills.

I used to skip periods when I was on the patch, with no problems. I imagine Nuva Ring would be no different.

Congrats and Good Luck !