Can birth control delay your period?

Answer 1

Yes because when you miss Birth Control pills it messed up your cycle and your period may be late and you might even experience spotting or breakthrough bleeding. When you miss more than 2 birth control pills it is best to use a back up method such as condoms until you have finished the pack of pills. If you have unprotected intercourse when you missed pills, you may become pregnant.

Answer 2

Sunday Start cycle: Start your first pack of birth control pills on the Sunday during or immediately following your menstrual period. Thus, if your period starts on a Sunday, you start the birth control pill that day OR Day 1 Start cycle: Start your first pack of pills the same day your period starts. Thus if your period starts on a Tuesday, you start the birth control pills that day. Day 5 Start cycle: Begin your pills on the 5th day after your period starts, counting the day that the bleeding starts as day 1 (even if it's 10 p.m. or later). The advantage to the Sunday Start cycle is that you will never have your period on the week-end. If this is important to you, use the Sunday Start. The advantage to the Day 1 start cycle is that you will be immediately protected from pregnancy. If maximizing the contraceptive effect of the "pill" is most important to you, use the Day 1 Start. There is no particular advantage to the Day 5 Start cycle. Many European manufactured pills instruct women to start their pills in this manner, and sometimes your clinician, for certain medical reasons, will have you use this start as well. Once you have taken that first pill, take one tablet every day thereafter until you have taken all 21 tablets in the package and there are no tablets left. You will take no pills for the next 7 days. If you have a 28-day package, you will have 7 tablets of a different color to take during these 7 days. These 7 different pills are not medication and serve only as reminder pills. No additional birth control is required during this week. About 3 days after finishing all 21 tablets, most women will have a "period", often much lighter and shorter than you're used to. On the next Sunday (the 8th day) begin a new package, whether or not you are still bleeding. You will now have a regular 28-day cycle: 21 days taking birth control pills and 7 days taking either the reminder pills or no pills, and during which time you will menstruate Theoretically, your pills are effective from the seventh day if you start using the Sunday Start or the Day 5 Start cycle. However, for practical purposes you should not consider yourself safe until the end of the first cycle. If you take them regularly, you are protected from then on, even during the week of no birth control pills. Using the Day 1 start, you are protected from pregnancy right away, since you are taking the pill at the beginning of your period, thus interrupting your natural hormonal cycle at the beginning.

Answer 3

No. If you're starting birth control pills for the first time (or after having been off them for at least a week or more), beginning a pill pack will not make your period start. You may experience spotting and bleeding, but it will not be your period. Your period happens when your body realizes it is not pregnant and it sheds out the endometrial lining it built up in preparation for a fertilized egg to implant itself onto the uterine wall to begin growing into a fetus. When you're on the pill, the pill stops ovulation and prevents your endometrium from building up in preparation. Instead, your body experiences a new surge/drop off of hormones and this can sometimes confuse your uterus and make you experience unusual bleeding. If this spotting lasts for more than 3 months after beginning a new hormonal birth control method, see your practitioner. There's probably a better hormonal method out there for you. If you think you might be pregnant and are trying to get your period to start, you should take a pregnancy test. If it comes out negative, you should either wait it out or see your medical practitioner. Almost all causes of late/missed periods in young women are benign.

Answer 4

Yes, it's possible for your period to be off for the first month or so of a new type of birth control pills. If it doesn't go back to normal within two or three months then you should switch brands.

Answer 5

Somewhat. You can use birth control pills to have a more controlled & predictable period.
It can.

Answer 6

No, it will just change the days your period is on.

Answer 7

The pill can alter your menstruation cycle making your period late or early. Spotting is also a possibility.

Answer 8

It may cause a delay until you reach the placebo pills.