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Originally posted by lurkette
If you're on a pill that has a constant hormone dose (one where every week is the same pill, not one where the pills change doses and colors every week) you can just stay on that same pill and skip the week of placebo pills. That's what my doctor had me do. The side effects are no different taking it constantly than they were taking it for three weeks and then having a period.
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That is how my Dr had me doing things for over a year before we switched to the Seasonale. The difference with Seasonale is that you get 2 extra weeks of pills before your period versus if you went through 3 packs, skipping the placebo pills.
The dosage in Seasonale is 0.15mg levonorgetrel/ 0.03 Ethinyl estradiol.
The estrogen is much lower than other pills I've used and I have much less intense headaches when I do go off. Partly it's the drop in estrogen that causes my headaches.
If I was going to have my period every other month I'd just go to POP pills. They mess with my system less than the estrogen/progesteron pills. Also the incidence of problems because of estrogen in the pills is absent because they ONLY have Progesterone.
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