could this be harmful & cause issues for us when TTC?

hiya all,

since december i've been skipping my sugar pills & continuing on with a new month so i skip my period. it has been fantastic - i do have a reason for wanting to do it though. our wedding is in november & my period would have fell right around our date, & there's no way in hell i'm having it on my wedding day :lol: so i'm still trying to sync it better.

last saturday when i wiped i had CM mixed with blood, i thought "NO WAY please go away we're leaving for gold coast" anyway i put a pad in thinking my period was here... well every day since then & it's still continuing every time i wipe it's either bloody CM, brown CM or thin tissue like stuff... sorry for TMI

now it has me thinking am i harming my body from skipping the sugar pills? anyone have any advice / personal experience?

we're planning to start TTC in october this year

thanks laides xx

It's generally not recommended to skip a period. I did for our wedding and honeymoon, but it was one. I don't see why you need to not have a period for a year, so that you don't have a period on your wedding day? Why can't you just skip the sugar pills if they happen to fall on that date?

not planning on doing it for a year, just until it syncs with a date that suits. i never thought of it that way :rofl: i guess i can just continue on with normal pills if it falls on/near our wedding. why do i always do things the hard way :wall:

I skipped mine for several cycles at a time as recommended by my gyno when I was younger as I suffered from endometriosis. It's not harmful at all! The only harm is you may fall pregnant and be none the wiser. My GPs over the years totally agreed with what I did and it did help me with my endometriosis.

I don think think it is necessarily harmful, but I always found that if I skipped more than 1 or 2 that I would breakthrough bleed like what you have until I let myself have a period. They slways seemed excessively heavy and painful when that happened too. We fell pregnant 2nd month off the pill (first natural cycle)

I skipped mine all the time on the pill because I would get bad headaches on the sugar pill, my gp didn't have a problem with it as she explained its not a real period anyway as you don't ovulate. I did this for a few years before swapping to implanon. The gp at the time was from the family planning clinic.

oh wow thanks everyone, i feel much much better :hug:! i have been really worried this past week thinking i broke my body :( lol. it was the end of my pack last night so i decided to take a sugar pill instead of going on with a new month (if i had read your replies last night i probably would have gone on with a new month!). i can feel my AF coming already i've had really horrid cramps, very bloated & some diarrhea. this is why i hate AF :wall:

thanks again so much for your replies xx

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It's generally not recommended to skip a period. I did for our wedding and honeymoon, but it was one. I don't see why you need to not have a period for a year, so that you don't have a period on your wedding day? Why can't you just skip the sugar pills if they happen to fall on that date?

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I don't agree, my gynae recommended going for 3-6 mths at a time for my endo. A lot of people do it.
You might be having some break through bleeding - a little spotting around when your period should be due.