Hormonal birth control can safely delay your period for important events or discomfort management. Delaying periods might help people with health conditions like heavy bleeding, endometriosis, or ...

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You can stop your period with continuous cycle pills, an IUD, shots, patches, or vaginal rings. To delay your period, you can skip your placebo week of birth control and start a new pack. You can't ...

Ok, let's kick this off by saying really there shouldn't be any rules around what you can - or cannot - do while on your period. It's totally a personal choice whether you want to have sex (or swerve ...

This article was reviewed by Julia Switzer, MD, FACOG. If you’re entering perimenopause or menopause, you’ve probably heard about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) — and you might be wondering about ...

My period is, and always has been, very regular, reliably arriving every 21 days. So when it was 10 days late this past September, I freaked out and called my doctor to figure out what the heck was ...