Female-type dilemma

[juthwara]

Okay, so I started back on the pill (the mini-pill actually) exactly a week ago. And guess what decided to show up today after almost exactly a year? My period. (And after 8 freaking weeks of post-partum bleeding too. I have now made up for every period I missed while pregnant)

I really wasn't expecting this. Breastfeeding can delay your period for quite a while and even if that hadn't done it, I thought that it would have waited until I got the inactive pills in the pack. But no, my body had ovulated and it would not be denied (gee, I ovulated all on my own - how novel!).

But as people who've used the Pill know, it's best started on the first day of your cycle, the day your period starts. I had decided to just start taking the pills because, as I said before, I wasn't expecting my period to show up any time soon. But now here I am, at the beginning of my cycle but a week into the pack of pills. So here's my dilemma: do I just keep taking them from this pack and have my period again in two weeks? Or do I toss this pack and start fresh with a new one?

I would go with option two without question except that my insurance gets really shirty about paying for prescription refills more than two seconds before I need them (Really. When I spent the fall in Michigan after my mother's accident and was only home every two weeks or so, I tried to fill a prescription six days before I needed the new prescription while I was home for two days and was told no, I had to wait until four days before the old prescription ran out. Of course, this is also an insurance company that believes the year only has 360 days, to judge by their 1 month=30 days rule of prescriptions). And I'm using a mail-order pharmacy, so it's a lot harder to argue with them or just pay for the prescription out of pocket.

I would call my doctor and ask, but well, it's Sunday and I don't think I would get the best reaction if I had my doctor paged to ask a question about the Pill. So instead, I turn to the Internets for help: what would you do?

Comments

[archangelbeth]

1) My mother said that she went about 2 years without a period while nursing me full-time. Me? Try maybe five months and for once I was actually regular instead of Extended Interval. Pbpbpbpbpth.

2) I'd stick with the pill-pack and have it again in 2 weeks, if your insurance is going to be a pain. I've had 2-week intervals on my own, and unless you have horrible cramps or the like, it will probably not be worth the insurance hassle. I doubt there will be much in the way of medical issues -- you probably just want to make sure you get extra fluids for nursing + period flows.

3) I've never been on the Pill. Take my advice for what it's worth.

[archangelbeth]

PS: I love your mood icon/term there. *snicker*

[juthwara.livejournal.com]

Hee. It was the icon for "annoyed," and I was very pleased when it turned out to be red.