How to Stop Your Period

Getting your periods at the most unexpected time can really mess up your plans. Menstruation, or bleeding, at the most crucial phase of the month, can shuffle your plans upside down. Thus, for some women, controlling their menstrual cycles of the month, gives them confidence to do whatever they want, whenever they want to. If you too are one of those wondering how to stop your period safely without having to wait for menopause, let me assure you there are some effective ways.

Oral Contraceptives
If you are on oral contraceptives or birth control pills, then may be you know what I am I talking about. Let me explain it, in a little detail. Your pack of oral contraceptives, has 28 pills. Out of these only 21 are active, which means, they subdue your fertility or ovulation, by controlling your hormones. The remaining 7 pills, are inactive, which make you bleed. This bleeding is a response to the withdrawal of hormones and not an actual menstrual cycle.

Timing
The 7 inactive pills have a placebo effect on your body. They do nothing harmful and nothing beneficial either. Delaying your monthly menstrual cycle, is just having the active pills, throughout the month. This means, you will have to skip the 7 inactive pills and continue with the fertility suppressing pills throughout the month.

Reasons for Delaying Periods
Wedding day, honeymoon, exams or if you are an athlete, I guess you have a valid reason for delaying your period. Menstrual symptoms, get too much to handle along with these important events. Here are a few reasons why innumerable women wish to delay their periods:

• Heavy bleeding and bouts of pain
• Tenderness of breasts, bloating, weight gain and mood swings
• Headaches, dizziness and nausea
• Urinary tract infections or any medical disability that make it impossible to use tampons or sanitary napkins

Which Contraceptives to Use
The first contraceptive, suggested is, Seasonale. This 91 day pill course, will reduce your periods to four in a year. That's a relief! This course is divided into 84 active pills and 7 inactive pills. You have the 84 active pills, which will delay your periods for three months and in the last week have the 7 inactive pills, which will give you periods, once every quarter. Seasonique, is another pill available in the market, with the same division of 84 and 7. Seasonique contains lesser amount of estrogen, which reduces the hormonal side effects too! Lybrel, is one more pill at your disposal. This has low levels of both, progesterone and estrogen. At the end of Lybrel's course, for a year, you will have stopped bleeding.

How to Do It
You can select the pills after consulting your doctor. Preferably, go in for a pill that contains 20 to 35 micrograms of estrogen. Start taking the pills, and by week three get another pack and discard the inactive pills. By week 7, have your inactive pills, so your menstrual cycle will be perfectly predictable. You may experience some vaginal spotting, as your body tries to adjust to the change. However, as time passes, you will be in total control of your menstrual cycle.

One way of stopping your period completely of course is by getting a hysterectomy done, as a health advice don't manipulate your menstrual cycle without a valid cause. Menstrual cycle is nature's way of making a woman's body ready for a beautiful change. Let nature take its course. Take care!