Odds are you're just one of the unlucky women who can't skip their periods by skipping placebos. I tried to skip mine too, and I went through the same thing you're going through (i was also taking ortho tri cyclen lo at the time). My period lasted off and on for 3 weeks then the week after that, I got my regular period. Talk about not fun. anyway, don't try to skip your period by skipping placebos since it doesn't work for everyone and for some people it really screws up their cycles. Continue taking your pills regularly and things will get back to normal.

If you want shorter, lighter periods you may want to see about switching to a different brand of pill since another pill could affect you differently. I take alesse and my periods are never longer than 2-4 days.

Nicole

Unsure.. The same thing happened to me when I tried to skip on ortho.. It regulated back the next month afterwards.. But for some of us it only delays our period a week or two (then screws it up!). I would give it time to clear up.. I wouldn't worry about it.

You've had your period for over a week because you tried to skip it using triphasic pills. You can only skip periods if you are on monophasic pills. Triphasic means that there are 3 different hormone levels in the pills depending on which colour pill you are taking (for example, i'm on triquilar, also triphasic, and the brown pills are one hormone leve, the white ones are another, and the light brown ones are still another). Monophasic means that, throughout your entire cycle, you are only taking pills that all have the exact same hormone level. All the pills will be the same colour.

Every time you try to skip your period with triphasic pills you will mess up your cycle. If you want to skip it sometimes, talk to your doctor about monophasic pills.

I really doubt it's a miscarriage. It's probably just because you screwed up your hormones by skipping the week off. If you're worried that it might be, though, talk to a doctor.

I hope this has helped a bit!

Its pretty difficult to do the whole skip period thing if you're on tri-phasic pills like ortho... That would explain why you ended up bleeding even though you skipped the placebos. My advice is, if you want to skip periods, switch to a different brand, like yasmin, or alesse, or seasonale, or any of the monophasic pills.

Okay Same Situation with me..however I'm on tri-sprintec with is also tri-phasic. I skipped the placebo and started new pack and have been spotting and now getting heavier. I have only been trying this now for five days..what would be better to continue on with this pack?? Or..just stop tonight taking anything since i've only done five days and just have my period and then next sunday start another pack of pills and hopefully my period will cooperate by only being another week starting tonight????? HELP if you have wisdom