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If period delay is need of the hour for you then contact us. Periods have always posed challenges and hurt women. Ideally they would like to get rid of periods for ever but realistically speaking they can at most delay periods if need arises. At times women badly need to delay periods and pharmacies like ours come to their rescue. Let us assume a woman is planning a big event, like a wedding or long-awaited holiday, and she realises it will fall during her period. A thought then is bound to cross her mind as a menstruating person: Wouldn’t it be prudent to delay my period—just for a few days?
Period delay treatment for women taking the combined oral contraceptive pill
If you are already taking a fixed-dose combined oral contraceptive (COC) pill (often just termed ‘the pill’) then avoid the usual seven-day break and start the next pack immediately after expiry of previous pack. Taking two packs back-to-back in this manner is quite safe if it is done occasionally. You need to do nothing else other then have a seven-day break at the end of these two packets. If you are using a triphasic or biphasic kind of pill then you will require to take the last phase of the pills from the second pack straightaway after finishing the first pack. Otherwise, you can change to a fixed-dose pill.

Period delay treatment for women not taking combined oral contraceptive pill
In case you are not taking the COC pill (‘the pill’) then a hormone tablet (progestogen) called norethisterone can be prescribed. You need to take one tablet (5 mg) thrice a day. You have to begin medication three days before a period is due. Medication can be discontinued once your need for period delay ends. Your period will then typically start 2-3 days after stopping it. It can be used for up to 3-4 weeks if needed. Point to be noted here is that this medication is only for occasional use, rather than something to be used regularly. A different hormone (progestogen) medicine called medroxyprogesterone has a lower risk of DVT can be used alternatively.