Skip Your Period
Get relief from heavy, painful periods
Address cramping, heavy bleeding, hormonal breakouts, hormonal headaches, and other uncomfortable menstrual symptoms when you skip your period using hormonal birth control. Choose a birth control pill that works for you and receive a prescription that puts you in control of your cycle. Get FREE delivery right to your door in all 50 states!
Skip Your Period
How can I stop my period?
Stopping your period using birth control is a safe and effective way to take control of your menstrual cycle, either to soothe painful symptoms or simply to make life more convenient. There is no medical reason to continue having a period if you are taking hormonal contraception—the week of placebo pills built into every pack of birth control were put there to provide reassurance for women that they were not pregnant. These pills trigger a "withdrawal bleed" (not a real period) that more closely follows a woman's "natural" cycle, but it’s not medically necessary! You are still protected from pregnancy if you begin your next pack instead of taking the placebo pills, and you shouldn't experience bleeding after your first 3 packs.
Skipping your period lets you avoid
- Heavy bleeding
- Hormonal breakouts
- Cramping
- PMS
- Hormonal headaches
- Inconvenience
Your cycle, your schedule
Skip Your Period FAQ
Your Doctor
Periods aren't medically necessary while on combination hormonal birth control. This is a great option for those who deal with intolerable menstrual symptoms or are just looking for more convenience and will not impact future fertility!
