How to Use Birth Control to Skip Your Period Before getting started, let's quickly reviewhow birth control pills work. Most pill packs have three weeks' worth of active pills containing hormones that keep you from being fertile, and in turn, help prevent pregnancy, according to theMayo Clinic...
preventing your body from ovulating. They also tend to come with four to seven days worth of “inactive pills”. The inactive pills are essentially sugar pills or “placebo” pills that contain no useful active
green pills that are the sugar pills. Rushing to the computer to read about it I realized I started the wrong week & have now pushed my period up a week. Would it be terrible to just skip the green pills and start a new pack since I'm not suppose to have my period this week ...