This post is part of a series about continuous birth control pills. Please check back for more. And remember to seek advice from your medical professional before changing the way your take your birth control pills.

Before starting birth control pills for the treatment of endometriosis (a topic for later), I had never tried the pill before. I don’t want to be a side-effect freak, but sometimes I am.
I remember thinking I had a blood clot, but it was only a sore vein, phlebitis. After that, I calmed down a bit.
I’ve been taking birth control pills continuously for almost four years …read more

This post is part of a series about continuous birth control pills. Please check back for more. And remember to seek advice from your medical professional before changing the way your take your birth control pills.
Since we talked about what it means to take continuous birth control pills, now it’s time for why?
There are both lifestyle and health reasons for choosing to skip your periods through the use of birth control pills. One health reason is for the treatment of endometriosis (this is why I do it). If your cycles make you sick, why have them anyway?
And if you …read more

There’s a new poll in the sidebar: What do you think of continuous birth control pills?
Unsure what they are?
We’ll talk about them more, and I’ll tell you about my experiences with them too. To put it simply, if you’re taking continuous birth control pills, you’re skipping the placebo (inactive) pill, or you’re taking bcps designed without the inactive pills.
That means you don’t have a period. Or you have fewer periods, depending on how you take the pill.
Please give me your thoughts here or in the sidebar poll. Or both! And happy Friday to you.
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