Starting a New Pack a Week Late After Period. Posted: 06-29-07 16:36pm
I started a pack of Ortho-low the SECOND
sunday after I started my period. I got
confused with the directions. Will I be
protected in 7 days from when I started
even though I started late.
I am expecting that my cycle will be
different now. Some one told me that I
will be protected in 7 days but I should
expect some major breakthrough bleeding
and maybe a late period.
is this true?
please help. thanks in advance.
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Re: Starting a New Pack a Week Late After Period. Posted: 06-29-07 18:34pm
carcar66
wrote:
I started a pack of
Ortho-low the SECOND sunday after I
started my period. I got confused with the
directions. Will I be protected in 7 days
from when I started even though I started
late.
I am expecting that my cycle will be
different now. Some one told me that I
will be protected in 7 days but I should
expect some major breakthrough bleeding
and maybe a late period.
is this true?
please help. thanks in
advance.
There are two ways to start your pills for
the first time.
The first way is to start on the very
first day of your period, whether it's
sunday or thursday etc. If you had done it
that way, you would have been protected
immediately.
However, there is another perfectly fine
way to start, and it's actually what I
did. You start on a sunday. Any sunday,
doesn't matter when. It's what you did
too. You will be protected in 7 days.
You may or may not experience break
through bleeding, but if you do, it's
not because you're a
sunday-starter. I didn't have any
breakthrough bleeding at all. I never have
actually. Just because you started now
doesn't mean you'll have breakthrough
bleeding, and it certainly doesn't mean
your period will be late. Those things can
happen regardless of when you start.
