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Originally posted by IvySpice
Little-known fact (from my OB/GYN): there is NOTHING NEW in the Seasonale pill except packaging and marketing. You can do this with ANY mono-phasic birth control. Constant-dose pill, patch, or Nuvaring. Just start a new cycle every three weeks instead of every four, and boom, no period. Whenever you want to have one, just put the one-week break back in. I currently do this with Nuvaring.
There is a good argument to be made that not having periods is actually MORE natural than having them, not less. We are not supposed to be fertile and nonpregnant for years on end. We are supposed to spend our childbearing years either pregnant or nursing, with a period once every two or three years when we wean a baby. That's what our bodies are designed for. Being on a constant-dose BC is actually closer to that norm than having periods every month.
Ivy
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I agree. I do this with my pills now. I move when my cycle starts based on vacations, special occasions, etc. I typically do every other month instead of every three. I ma a much happier camper that way.
I have also read articles speculating that this may help in the fight against breast cancer. Rates of breast cancer are higher in women who do not have kids before thirty. Part of the theory is that we are being exposed to different levels of certain hormones because we are not suspending our cycles due to child birth and nursing. This method will reduce the number of cycles and make it more similar to that "norm" you described. This is all very early on in the theory stage but interesting none the less.