Period delay
Treatments that give you flexibility with your period.
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Whether you want a period-free vacation or you want to take the premenstrual syndrome out of your already stressful week, you can now delay your period for up to 17 days.
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Period delay treatment allows you to postpone your period for up to 17 days. This can serve two purposes, one of them being postponing the bleeding. This can be done for many reasons, the most common being having plans which can be impacted by the symptoms of a period, like pain, discomfort and cravings.
Delaying your period has another huge benefit. It can help you manage heavy bleeding and make menstrual cramps less painful. So, all around, period delay treatment can make your life much easier and even healthier.
Period delay tablets are for all women who want to postpone their period a while longer. This can be because you might be going on holiday, you might be going on a date, or you simply have a stressful week ahead and you don’t wanna be dealing with pads and tampons. So delaying your period will eliminate the problem temporarily.
Contact us and one of our doctors will discuss your health with you, and advise you which period delay treatment is better for you.
For the most part, yes. It’s completely safe to delay your period. But you shouldn’t rely on it and use it regularly, so try to opt for it only when necessary.
Although period delay treatment is safe for almost everyone, there are a few exceptions:
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Period delay treatment essentially keeps the amount of progesterone in your body elevated. It accomplishes this by mimicking the natural progesterone already present in your body. This high level of progesterone can stop your uterus lining from breaking down, delaying your period.
Period delay treatment tablets have a few different uses, and the way you take them will depend on your final goal. But for period delay specifically, you’ll normally take three tablets per day, three days before your period is due. Your period will usually start within three days of finishing your treatment course.
You should continue taking the pills for as long as our doctor advises you to, and if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask. They’ll respond promptly and with your best interests in mind. Just log in to your account and send them a message.
Period delay tablets are considered to be effective when it comes to delaying your period while maintaining fertility.
This method of period delay treatment is proven to be more effective than combined contraceptive pills, which are often used to help delay periods. During a study to test this, only 8% of women who used period delay tablets reported spotting, while in the group who took combined contraceptive pills, 43% of women reported spotting.
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There are a few different period delay treatment tablets such as Norethisterone, which is also sold as Prevent N, Norlut-N, Martinor, Primolut N or Sysron-N. If your BMI is 25 or above, or if you’re a smoker, you can get Medroxyprogesterone acetate instead of Norethisterone.
Medroxyprogesterone acetate (Maxogest, Regumed, Medoel or Meprate) is prescribed off-label for period delay, but that doesn’t mean that the medication is unsafe in any way. Doctors and experts have found it to be suitable and effective for period delay purposes. It’s prescribed off-label simply because the manufacturer hasn’t extended the licence for use in period delay.
Medroxyprogesterone acetate and Norethisterone both work in the same way in your body to delay your period, and they’re both made by Pfizer, but they’re slightly different from each other. They both contain different types of progesterone: Maxogest has medroxyprogesterone acetate in it, whilst Prevent N contains norethisterone.
If your BMI is below 25 and you’re not a smoker, you’re likely to be given Prevent N initially. But if you end up showing sensitivity to it and it triggers unpleasant side effects, you will be given Maxogest as an alternative. And vice versa.
If you end up reacting negatively to both Medroxyprogesterone acetate and Norethisterone, our doctor will discuss with you alternative methods of treatment that are safe for you to use.
There isn’t a ‘best’ treatment as such. It depends on you and your body. If you’re more prone to side effects with certain types of progesterone, this will affect which period delay treatment tablets are recommended for you.
Norethisterone is suitable if you’re not already taking a contraceptive pill. If you're taking a progestogen-only contraceptive pill, you cannot delay your period by taking 2 packets back-to-back.
But you may be able to switch to the combined contraceptive pill or take another medication to delay your period.
There’s also the possibility that you’re allergic to a certain ingredient in a specific treatment. If this is the case, our doctor can advise you on other treatments that are safe for you to take, and which don't contain the ingredient you’re allergic or sensitive to.
There is no natural way to delay your period yet, but there are other ways besides taking period delay treatment tablets. For example, you can delay your period by taking two packets of the contraceptive pill back to back (though this isn’t advisable), skipping the usual break, or skipping the inactive pills you normally take if you’re using everyday pills.
If you’re thinking of taking the pill continuously to delay your period, you should speak to our doctor first, to make sure that it is safe for you to do so. Since the pill isn’t prescribed for this purpose in the first place, it can cause some side effects like nausea and vomiting, diarrhoea and vaginal bleeding.
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Norethindrone is superior to combined oral contraceptive pills in short-term delay of menses and onset of breakthrough bleeding: a randomized trial. BMC women’s health, [online] 19(1), p.70
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