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Skip Placebo Week And Wait Till Following Week? Help!! Posted: 08-07-07 20:41pm


Hi everyone, I'm researching as my Wife thinks she is Dr Wife MD and I know absolutely nothing. (Which she is right to some account). She says shes been on the pill since she was 16 and knows everything there is to know about it. That said, I don't feel the same way. So I ask two questions. First, she thinks that if she "Skips" the placebo pills (4th week pills) and takes "NO" pills during that time that she can not get pregnant? Because all the pills do, is kick start her period. Then after that week of missing the 4th week pills she can just start her new pack? This doesn't make any sense to me, as how are you protected if you aren't taking the designed pills? Is she protected from getting pregnant when not taking her 4th week pills, and taking no pills until the following week? Second question. This word "Sugar Pill" she refers to them as, are these truly "Sugar" pills or is this some nickname someone made up? Because this sugar pill name i think is party to blame on why she thinks question number one above is valid? I think this is not a "Sugar" pill, and think it does have some significant value. Thanks for any help!! And no we don't need a marriage counselor. Mark

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Posted: 08-07-07 21:31pm


Your wife is right. The last week of pills in her pack are inactive. They are called reminder pills normally and are put there to keep you in the act of taking a pill everday. It will not lower the effectiveness of the pill if she does not take the last row of pills. You are totally fine and can just calm down. I did the same thing for four years of taking my bc pills.

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Posted: 08-07-07 21:52pm


The fourth row of pills really are sugar pills and don't do anything. They are just there to keep you in the habit of taking the pills. It doesn't matter if you take them or not. Maybe you should trust your wife more?? Or read the instructions they'll say the same thing.

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