Hi Anonymous,
Congrats on your husband coming back! How exciting for both of you. Thanks for your question, and for finding EmpowHER.
OK...let's take this step-by-step. I would suggest you advocate for yourself first by taking a pregnancy test to see if you are pregnant. If it comes out negative, then you may want to call your doctor and discuss different birth control options that may be more permanent since you are not planning on having more children. Depending on your age and true intent to not have children in the future, a different method may be right for you since it's becoming harder to remember to take your pill. It is possible your menstrual cycle has changed, and even if you take the pill back-to-back in successive months like that, as my doctor told me, "the blood has to come out sometime, and backing up the packs doesn't always work how you plan it to," as you found out.
Hope that helps. Let us know if you need more information about other forms of birth control, etc.
Good luck, and let us know how you are doing.
-Christine
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Hi Anonymous,
November 1, 2010 - 1:19pmCongrats on your husband coming back! How exciting for both of you. Thanks for your question, and for finding EmpowHER.
OK...let's take this step-by-step. I would suggest you advocate for yourself first by taking a pregnancy test to see if you are pregnant. If it comes out negative, then you may want to call your doctor and discuss different birth control options that may be more permanent since you are not planning on having more children. Depending on your age and true intent to not have children in the future, a different method may be right for you since it's becoming harder to remember to take your pill. It is possible your menstrual cycle has changed, and even if you take the pill back-to-back in successive months like that, as my doctor told me, "the blood has to come out sometime, and backing up the packs doesn't always work how you plan it to," as you found out.
Hope that helps. Let us know if you need more information about other forms of birth control, etc.
Good luck, and let us know how you are doing.
-Christine
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