Any pill with active pills taken for more than three weeks will reduce the number of periods. Some pills are packaged for this purpose (e.g. Seasonale, Seasonique), but any monophasic pill can be used in this way.
Birth control is used primarily as a contraceptive, to decrease periods, and to decrease PMS symptoms
Hormonal birth control methods, including the pill, can decrease the amount of bleeding and cramping with periods. Some women use them for this purpose and not for birth control.
There is no special pill for 16 year olds. In general, all combination birth control pills decrease menstrual flow and cramps. Some are in specially designed packages to reduce the number of periods, but any monophasic birth control pill can be used this way. Talk with your health care provider about options.
Women can take the birth control pills continuously without a break to skip the periods.
While on birth control, your periods should last just as long as when you're not on birth control. Some women regularly experience 2-3 day periods while other women can regularly experience 6-8 day periods.
You shouldn't be taking birth control if you're not prescribed it. Birth control pills don't stop periods, they stop pregnancy.
no
they say that working out allot helps decrease it but I'm not sure.
It will change your periods but they will still be there but you will just have them at different times of the month.
Yes. However you decrease the chances by taking your birth control correctly and by using condoms.
caused from prenacy or birth control
If your on birth control you won't get periods. In some cases people can have quite severe periods where a dangerous amount of blood is lost, and some people have painful experiences, so birth control pills can be medically prescribed.