How to Temporarily Stop Your Period

The concept of altering the normal functioning of the human body is neither a new nor an unusual premise. In particular, control over the woman's menstrual cycle has been a primary focus for centuries. Ancient Greeks and Egyptians chose medicinal plants with an eye to their merit at preventing pregnancy or inducing abortion. Today, women have an array of medicines to prevent pregnancy, many of which can also stop the bleed of her period. Healthy women with no known risk factors can consult their physicians for the proper prescription to stop their period for a month, a season or a year.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Birth control pill

Stop Your Period

1. Manipulate your medicine. Although not generally recommended, if you are looking for a short, one-time stop, you may have the power to do this without seeking the assistance of your doctor. If you are already on the pill, you are probably aware that the full cycle contains 21 pills with active ingredients ( a combination of progesterone and estrogen) and 7 days that are placebo pills. It is during the 7-day period, when the hormones are withheld, that you have your period. If instead you continue to have active pills, you will not have your period.

2. Try Seasonique. Seasonique is a birth control pill that is designed to allow a woman to have a period only once a season. By choosing this method of birth control, you will effectively stop 8 of your 12 periods.

3. Choose Lybrel. Another birth control pill that will stop your period, the 2007 FDA-approved Lybrel delivers a low dose of hormones with no placebo break. Because women do not have their period while on Lybrel, they can stop their periods for as long as they want--for months or even years.

References

• Mayo Clinic
• Seasonique
• Lybrel

Resources

• History of Birth Control

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