Hi! I use ortho evra and have been for years. Today (sunday) is the beginning of week 3 and next sunday would be the beginning of week 4, and I would normally receive my period a few days later. We are going away the following weekend and usually my period sticks around long enough that it would put a damper on the weekend. So, I want to safely switch my period to another week if at all possible.

I figure I have two options:
1) interrupt my current cycle by not putting week 3 patch on and try to start my period this week, starting my new cycle next sunday.

2) continue my current cycle and instead of leaving a patch off for week 4 next sunday, start my new cycle of patches right away.

Suggestions, anyone? If you can help me out right away that would be great because I pretty much have to make a decision today. (if all else fails, I just continue as normal -- better to be safe than sorry.)

thank you all! I'm curious about this too because i'll probably be anticipating the same situations for next fall when we're getting married. definitely don't want to be on my period then!!!

Thank you thank you!

Ps - I know this is probably tmi, but he usually pulls out before ejaculation anyway b/c we're super-cautious since we're not married yet.

Pps - I apologize for any strange typos of capitalization and such... I have it properly spelled out when i'm typing, but for some reason the forum isn't reading all of the capitalizations.