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  • Your menstrual period is a normal part of you body's cycle that can be a relief because it reminds you that everything is okay. On the flip side, your period is messy and can bring on all kinds of side effects like headaches, bloating and moodiness. Sometimes it can appear off schedule at some of the most inconvenient times--just ask a bride who was caught off guard. If your goal is to stop having your period, there are things you can do to make your period totally disappear or to have only a couple of scheduled periods a year.

    Birth Control Pills

    The most common way to stop your period is through the use of birth control pills. Formulas are available that specifically address reducing or eliminating your period. Lybrel is a pill that you take every day for a year and never have a period during that time frame. Seasonique and Seasonal reduce the frequency of your period to once every three months.

    Adapting Traditional Birth Control Pills

    You can also use regular birth control pills to stop your period. Your period occurs when you take the placebo pills while using traditional oral contraceptives, so skip the placebo pills and go right into the next pack after finishing the active pills in your current pack. You can always choose when you would want to have your period, but is advised to take the placebo pills every three months or so. This method works best with oral contraceptives that supply the same amount of hormone every day, as opposed to the ones that use phased hormones. You may experience breakthrough bleeding, which is bleeding that occurs outside of menstruation and is usually light. Headache, cramping and bloating has lessened or disappeared with this method of birth control.

    Depo-Provera and Mirena

    Depo-Provera, a hormonal birth control that is injected once every three months, has eliminated periods in many women who have used the drug for about a year or more. Depo-Provera does not let you choose when to have your period like oral contraceptives do, so it may not be the right solution for everyone. Mirena, a small T-shaped plastic device that is implanted in the uterus by your doctor, has also been shown to eliminate periods in about 20 percent of all users after one year. Besides acting as a form of IUD (intrauterine device) that prevents the sperm from meeting the eggs, Mirena releases low doses of hormones for the five years that it remains in your uterus unless you choose to remove it sooner. Your period returns to normal once Mirena is removed.

    Amenorrhea

    An extreme way to stop your period is through creating amenorrhea. Amenorrhea occurs when conditions in a woman's body have made it an undesirable place to carry a child, so your body stops producing the hormones that regulate reproduction and your reproductive cycle shuts down. Women who have lost a lot of weight suddenly, have an eating disorder or are severely underweight commonly have amenorrhea, as do serious athletes who train heavily for two to three hours or more a day. Severe stress, like that from the death of a loved one, can also cause amenorrhea. While this is a way to stop having your period, it is not recommended due to the major negative effect it can have on your health.

    Source:

    MayoClinic.com: Women's Health

    Mirena

    Women-to-Women

  • birth control, mine stopped when i had to get a hysterectomy cause of fibroids

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