Postpone your period: How does it work and who can postpone your period?

Postpone your period

How can I get help to postpone my period?

If you need to postpone your period, you can fill in our health form which deals with questions about your health. A doctor then makes an assessment and you get help to postpone your period within 15 minutes.

Postpone your period!

Over half of all women who menstruate experience discomfort in the form of period pain, nausea, fatigue, mood swings, etc., which can ruin occasions that have been looked forward to. Are you planning a trip, participating in a sports competition or maybe getting married? Then period displacement could be something for you!

This is how postponing your period works

To understand how postponing your period works, you need to understand how your period and the menstrual cycle work. Menstruation is a bleeding that comes from the uterus about once a month. Menstruation looks different from woman to woman and varies in the number of days you bleed, how much you bleed and how you feel before, during and after menstruation. Menstruation depends on the menstrual cycle, which is a complex interplay between hormones that come from the brain and the ovaries, including estrogen and corpus luteum hormone (progesterone).

The function of estrogen is to build up the lining of the uterus and make it ready to receive an egg (from the ovaries) if fertilization occurs. The corpus luteum hormone helps to stabilize the mucous membrane and if no fertilization occurs, the corpus luteum hormone drops and the mucous membrane is expelled, you get your period.

When you postpone your period, you take synthetic luteinizing hormone, which prolongs the cycle so that the mucous membrane is not expelled. When you stop taking the tablets, the amount of corpus luteum hormone drops and the period comes. The recommendation is not to push the cycle for more than 14 days as the risk of breakthrough bleeding increases.

How long can you delay your period?

You can postpone your period for a maximum of 14 days. The risk of breakthrough bleeding increases the longer you postpone your period

How often can you postpone your period?

There is no fixed time interval for how often you can postpone your period, but if you want to postpone your period frequently or wish to avoid menstruation altogether, you should consider other methods, for example birth control pills or IUDs.

How can you postpone your period?

There are various possibilities to postpone your period. Temporary tablet treatment or with the help of your contraceptive. The possibility of delaying your period with the help of contraceptives depends on the type you use. If you do not use contraception or have a contraceptive that cannot be used to postpone the period, there is temporary tablet treatment. During temporary tablet treatment, corpus luteum hormone is added, which prolongs the cycle so that the mucous membrane is not expelled. Menstruation is moved forward. This type of treatment cannot be combined with mini-pills, intermediate pills, contraceptive sticks or contraceptive syringes.

Postpone your period with the help of birth control

For those of you who are already using contraception, you can postpone your period by using so-called long-cycle use. This means that you continue on the next map, patch or ring, depending on the contraceptive method, without taking a break or taking sugar pills. In this way, the bleeding is postponed until the next month or until it comes on its own. When the bleeding comes, a break of 4 days is recommended to then return to your contraceptive method. Note that long-cycle use does not work with all types of contraception. If you are unsure, we recommend that you contact the midwife or doctor who prescribed the contraceptive.

How long can you postpone your period with birth control pills?

Postponing your period with the help of birth control pills means taking the tablets according to the long-cycle principle. This means that the maps are "eaten together", so you skip the sugar pills and start the next map directly. This is now the recommended way to take your birth control pills and you can continue this way until you get a breakthrough. Then it is recommended that you take a break of 4 days and then continue on the map. Note that this only works when using combined oral contraceptives.

How to postpone your period naturally?

Postponing the period with corpus luteum hormone can be considered natural as it is the same type of hormone that the body normally produces. There is no over-the-counter medicine, health food, vitamins or other measures that can safely and effectively delay your period.

Who can postpone periods?

Actually, anyone can postpone the period, but period displacement with temporary tablet treatment (with synthetic luteinizing hormone) is aimed at those who have copper or hormonal IUDs or do not use any regular contraception, and have regular periods. It is important that you have regular periods and keep track of your menstrual cycle so that you take the tablets at the right time for the treatment to work. The tablets are started a couple of days before the expected menstruation and are taken for as long as you wish to postpone the period, but a maximum of 14 days. Menstruation then comes 2-3 days after the end of treatment. Temporary tablet treatment cannot be combined with minipills, intermediate pills, birth control sticks or birth control syringes as the period is more often irregular and the treatment has an uncertain effect.

Postpone your period when you've already had it

Unfortunately, when your period has already started, there is no way to postpone it. What you can do is keep track of it by registering your periods in an app, for example. Then you can see in advance when it is expected to arrive and plan ahead.

Is it dangerous to postpone your period?

No, it is not dangerous to postpone your period. There are certain conditions or circumstances that make it inappropriate to postpone your period, such as severe liver disease, previous blood clots or a family history of blood clots, vaginal bleeding without a known cause, or cancer. Fill out our health form to find out if the treatment is suitable for you or not. In some cases, you can still get help with menstrual displacement even with one of the above conditions, but should then seek physical care.

Does having a missed period affect my ability to get pregnant?

No, it does not affect future ability to get pregnant. Menstruation comes about 2-3 days after the end of treatment and your menstrual cycle then continues as usual. Please note that temporary period displacement does NOT protect against pregnancy. To safely avoid pregnancy, we recommend the use of contraception in some form as the medicine can affect the fetus.

Side effects of postponing your period

If you experience side effects, the most common are breast tension, headaches or PMS-like symptoms. This goes away as soon as you stop using the tablets.

If you have other questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact us via our chat or by email at info@recetasmedicas.com.