Progestin only pills do not actually have a placebo week, they are all active pills. Progestin only pills do not regulate your periods like regular pills, so you cannot skip a period while on them. It does not take 2 full months to become effective, most docs do say to give progestin only pills a full 2 weeks before engaging in unportected sex. This is the policy where I work.

[quote="carifairy"]progestin only pills do not actually have a placebo week, they are all active pills. Progestin only pills do not regulate your periods like regular pills, so you cannot skip a period while on them. It does not take 2 full months to become effective, most docs do say to give progestin only pills a full 2 weeks before engaging in unportected sex. This is the policy where I work.[/]

so all progestron pills are like that? I was certain that the brand I was on had a placebo week.... At least thats what the doc said.

Please tell me what brand of pill you are on. Progestin pills are not meant to regulate periods, they cause your cervical mucous to thicken and cause your uterine lining to thin.
No they do not have a placebo week.



Here is a website which is answered every week by a harvard trained gyn doc about birth control. It includes qusestions on the mini pill


also if you look online you will notice artivles and info about the mini pill.

Thanks for teh clarification, the pill im on is micronor, I ended up spending some time yesterday searching for more info on it, as obviously my doc was misinforming me.

this is very interesting, i've found quite a bit of literature that says its not as "effective" as it should be untill after the 2nd month. The few people that i've known that have taken the progestron only pill have said the same thing.
The pamthlet that comes with my bc, doesn't say anything about waiting two months, just two weeks or something like that...

So you only have to wait two weeks? Very interesting, again thanks for the the info!

Yeah a lot of people hear many different things from docs... It would not hurt to wait a month for it to become effective, but technically 2 weeks is all it is supposed to take. But hey anyhting that makes you feel safer..