[Bubblegumyum]

Has anyone done this? Did you have breakthrough bleeding?

I'm going on a romantic vacation on Wednesday and just started taking it today. I was meant to start my period probably on Friday of this week. I'm realllllly hoping that I'll be period free, but I know that may not happen.

[Jayci]

I believe its like a normal pill and you skip the sugar pills to take the next active pill and there is no period/bleeding until you take the next lot of sugar pills.

If you are starting a new pill, just be careful and use back up, as it may take two weeks to get into your system and work even though you could be on something different, as you might be changing the amount of hormones you are taking.

[kira]

It's unlikely to completely stop your period the first month. Ideally if you want to skip your period you should start 2 months ahead of time. Anything else and you are probably going to experience some bleeding. Also not all pills work for all people. Some people get break through bleeding continually on certain pills and have to switch to others. Hormonal birth control doesn't make a good emergency system for stopping your period now. It takes awhile to work and even longer to know if it's going to work perfectly or not.

[Bubblegumyum]

Don't worry ladies, I'm not planning on using Yaz as birth control, just to delay my period for this weekend. I leave tomorrow and so far no period yet. We'll be using condoms.

I do understand how birth control works very well, but was just hoping to see if anyone had been in my predicament and been successful. I realize there's a good chance it won't work since it's so last minute. Usually I have short and lighter periods anyway and haven't had problems with spotting on the pill in the past. Fingers crossed!!

[Yazwoman]

The first few months of starting on a new pill will throw your body off a little bit. You should get your period during the withdrawal period if you do that. When I first started I had breakthrough bleeding a bit though I took in continuously. But that's pretty normal. If you don't bleed the first month, that's ok.. it's pretty common. If you take it for 24 days and then 4 of placebo in the second month it should come during placebos (3 or 4th sugar pill, depends)