I've been on Ortho-Cyclen for about four months, and am trying to do that nifty thing where you take it continuously and don't have a period at all. It's a nice idea, but this month, I've bled for 18 days, going from light to heavy to light. I'm pretty sure if I'm on the rag for much longer, I'm going to keel over from blood-loss:P What pills are you all on? What has worked best for you? Specific formulas or brands would be good to know for when I next hit up Planned Parenthood. They keep telling me 'weird periods' are normal on the pill and to tough it out, but a two-and-a-half-week period is wrecking my professional life and destroying my sheets. Help!



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I take the same pill you do and I'm trying to skip the placebo week and just start a new pack every 3 weeks, too. The first couple months I did this, I think I had spotting every single day, but it slowly went away and the last two months I've had no period at all! Yay! However, my body is probably way more adjusted to BC since I've been continuously on it for like 6 years. I also feel like when I very first started taking BC, it took almost a year for my periods to stabilize, and they were extremely unpredictable. Maybe you can try talking to your doc about your plan to eradicate your periods entirely?

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