What Medication Can You Take to Stop a Period?

Many forms of contraception, especially the birth control pill or the hormonal IUD, will affect your period in some way. Some patients experience heavier periods, but others find their period becomes much lighter or disappears altogether. If you aren't interested in going on birth control, but you'd like to make your period come later, Norethindrone is a safe and effective option. Norethindrone contains a form of progesterone (that is also used in birth control pills) to delay your menstrual cycle.

How Does Norethindrone Delay My Period?

Norethindrone is in a class of medications called progestins that are also common in birth control pills. Progestins play a role in regulating ovulation and menstruation. Taking the prescribed dose of norethindrone stabilizes your uterine lining so your body gets the message to hang on to it rather than shed it like you do during your period.

What Are The Side Effects of Norethindrone?

Similar to birth control, the most common side effect of any hormonal medication is sun sensitivity. Be sure to take breaks from direct sun exposure and wear SPF 50 sunscreen. You may also experience some side effects like lower mood, fluid retention, or mild acne. Everyone responds differently to changes in their hormone cycle so you may experience all of these side effects, or none at all.

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Put a pause on your period with a quick online consult. Privately message a licensed medical provider about delaying menstruation. After a medical review, your provider will prescribe treatment to put you in control. Most prescriptions are sent to your pharmacy within 3 hours of completing your medical intake form and phone call or video chat when necessary. Easy!

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How To Delay Your Period

We all know periods have a tendency to crash the party. To safely delay your period, check out with Norethindrone Acetate, and if treatment is considered safe and appropriate, your prescription will be sent to a local pharmacy in just a few hours.

Norethindrone Acetate is a form of progesterone, the hormone that plays an important role in regulating ovulation and menstruation—it can stop your period fast prior to your next flow. Begin taking it 3 days before your period is supposed to start to delay your period, and you can continue to take it for up to 20 days. Once you stop the medication, your period will begin a few days later.

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Periods can be an inconvenience at times—Norethindrone Acetate is a safe and effective way to postpone a period so it doesn't interfere with other important events in a patient's life.

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Delay Your Period (Norethindrone Acetate Tablets)

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