(This rule is actually true for all the new methods of taking the combined contraceptive pill. If you do choose to take a break you need to remember: You must have taken 7 pills in a row before any break and your break can not be longer than 7 days. If the bleeding bothers you, you can take 4 day break and then start again.Just keep taking the pill every day and it may well stop.If you get some bleeding with this method you have 2 options: Continuous Pill Taking In this method, you keep taking your pill, without any breaks.Then take a break – again we would recommend a shorter break like 4 days to keep the risk of pregnancy low. It’s called tricycling because you take 3 packs of pills one after each other without a break. Tricycling Doctors have been recommending this for many years especially for patients who have heavy or painful periods.You might want to use an app or phone reminder to help you remember. After another 21 days, you would do the same thing. You would then start the next packet after 4 days without a pill – on Saturday. So you would take: 21 days of pill perhaps taking your last pill on a Monday.

This means you are very unlikely to ovulate: even if you accidentally take a 5 or 6 day break (just as long as it is not longer than 7 days).

The 4 Day Break You can take a shorter gap: for example 4 days instead of 7.

There are 3 ways you could take your pill that help reduce this problem.

To put it another way, a 7 day break gives you very little room for error with remembering to start your new packet. If you accidentally have an 8 day break you have a high change of ovulating and could therefore get pregnant. If you take a 7-day break your body starts getting ready to pop out an egg. The pill stops you getting pregnant partly by stopping your body ovulating (popping out an egg). The bleed you get when you stop the pill is not a “real period”: it is just a withdrawal from the hormones in the pill and it is not necessary. The 7-day break was invented when the contraceptive pill was created as they thought that women would want to have a bleed every month.

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