I used to take ortho-lo as well. I never tried to skip a period with them, but with other triphasic pills, I have. It didn't work. I read that it only works in monophasic pills (the same dosage each pill for the cycle). I don't know what you can do about it... Maybe wear a tampon as long as possible so there'll be less mess?

I always wear tampons. I'm going to wait for some more advice, but it's sounding like I should go with the second plan, and go back a week..

Tri phasic are difficult to skip on, and usually most women are not able to skip with them.

=( sorry...

But does this mean i'd be able to simply go back a week on the pills, since i'm only in the second week, and I haven't started the third week yet?

I think I did accidentally lose a week last month, now that i'm looking at the packs...

I did this more than once on different pills and never had a problem. My period just came the next month when I starting taking the placebos. It's wasn't any heavier. The doctor recommended I do it b/c my periods were so heavy. I had one every three months for a year. I've also done it a couple of times when I went on vacation.

She is on tri-phasic pills though, mono phasics are needed to skip...

Eiri, be careful..For birth control to work you need at least 21 days of active pills every cycle! You can extend the pack all you want, but never shorten your 21 days of active pills..

The month I accidenally shortened, I didn't have sex anyway. So I think i'll be able to extend my period by one week, because i'll just be taking the same week i'm on right now, over again. I think I better do this too, just in case!

When I left my pills down south, i'd thought I was at the end of week 2, but I was only at the end of week 1, apparently (now that I have the other pack to look at). So my period came fine, and now i'm at the end of week two on a different pack. I have the original pack that I forgot, and it has pills that end week 1 and then it has all of the rest of the pills. It's two first-week pills and then it goes right into week two pills, so I should be fine! Because i'm keeping the horomone level high. The way my pills work, the prescription is higher in the beginning and it goes down as the month progresses. So week two (the week i'm ending/thinking of extending) is medium dosage. Even if I have the dosage direction wrong, (if for some reason it goes low-high) week two is the intermediate week anyway. There shouldn't be any problem extending it. Unless my logic is totally flawed? Because i'll be keeping the dosage exatly the same... The reason girls might have a problem skiping periods on tri-cyclen is because of the fact that by week three, the dose is so low that it is ready for the placebo pills, and to start the period.

My sister in law just recently told me how she skipped a period with triphasic pills. I questioned it.....Because it didn't make sense to me. She told me she asked her doctor about it, and she said it was perfectly safe to do, and that she could to it with triphasic pills. I don't remember which brand she said....But she said it worked perfectly fine...I still don't see how it worked, but she said it worked out fine for her....

Well I decided not to skip my period because i'm too damned paranoid and I need my period to prove to myself that i'm not pregnant. Turns out, I did have sex during the pack that I accidentally skipped week two; in fact, I had sex during the placebo week. I managed to terrify myself into hot flashes last night; but i've learned to manage my panic attacks. I got my period the day after we had sex, that month on the day I always get my period. It was a totally normal period, nothing odd at all.

So that should really be enough to assure me i'm not pregnant, except that my discharge has been a little heavier this month. That could be caused by a number of things; it's been way hotter here lately; i'm not showering as often as I should, etc. Yes, i'm reasoning it away because I thought of that fact last night and almost scared myself into a mental break down complete with incoherent screaming. I had totally consoled myself, until I thought of that. Also, once, my mother was pregnant for three months without knowing it; and I don't remember if she got her periods during that time or not. I know she didn't get her period after stoping pills later in life in order to conceieve my brother, and she did, the day before her period was due (and obviously didn't get her period). So that fact consoles me.


So now i've been taking this pack totally 100% correctly; but i'm so terrified that i'm going to make my boyfriend wear a condom every time when he comes up to visit this time, just to be extra safe.

I'm too scared to take a pregnancy test; so i'm just going to wait for the placebo week to roll around. I'm good at not worrying during that time, because I know that it will make my period late if I do.