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January 28th, 2008
I just started my 3rd pack of YAZ, my dr instructed me to skip the white pills, and take only active pills for the first 3 months. The first month, my period lasted for 10 days!! Now, I havent had a period the second month, and I'm onto my third pack. Has anyone ever heard of this? Its supposed to be healthy for your body, and your supposed to have a period every three months. Please help?? Confused
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Tylanas
replied January 28th, 2008
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You're fine. Yes, it is perfectly healthy to only get a period every three months. Yes, it was normal that you spotted for 10 days. That wasn't a "period" because you were on active pills, so it is called spotting.

Of COURSE you didn't get a period the second month! You never stopped taking the active pills (right?) so you never had a drop in hormones so you never had a pill-period. Periods on the pill are actually just "withdraw" bleeding, and not an actual period caused by the ovulated egg etc. Because you never had a placebo week, there was no "withdraw" period from the hormones and THUS, you didn't get any bleeding!!

You will not (normally) get bleeding if you constantly take active pills. That's the point of doing it.

Now at the end of the third month, you will take the placebo pills for their duration - I'm not sure how many placebos Yaz has. You may bleed during this time, but you may not!! It's OK. You're still safe.
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