Full Version: How long does it take for bcp to leave your system
Does anybody out there have a clue about how long it takes for bcp to leave your system. I asked my nurse practioner, she said a month. I asked a doctor online he said a few days. Futher reading I found someone said 3 months. I don't think this should be a guessing game for doctors, shouldn't they all have the same answers. I'm 51, took them for 17 months for peri issues. It's been almost a month since I stopped. Now I'm going to play the mystery game, will I get a period.
I haven't taken BCPs for 27 years...and one would think back then they were way stronger than they are now....I went off them after the 21 day run, got my period as usual and ended up pregnant before the next period was due!! I was told it would take 3 to 6 months before they would leave my system and I could get pregnant. Well not so! I ovulated within two weeks of stopping the BCPs.
Perhaps we are all different...I don't know for sure, I can only share my story!!
Kathie
Perhaps we are all different...I don't know for sure, I can only share my story!!
Kathie
I think my doctor said 1-3 months and to use something until then just in case. I am wondering if your body starts doing everything again sooner but there are certain hormones that will stay in you longer so that is why they say 1-3 months. I know things just take forever to leave my system.
Mopsy
Mopsy
My BF stopped hers during her honeymoon as her GP told her it would take " a few months" to clear her system and not to worry if she had not regulated before 6 months.
I became a fairy godmother 9 months and a week and 1 day after I had been her bridesmaid!
That was four years ago nearly, she is now pregnant again but it took over a year after she stopped her BCP again to conceive so I it just goes to show how different it is between everyone and your own body at different times in your life too.
Amanda Mx
I became a fairy godmother 9 months and a week and 1 day after I had been her bridesmaid!
That was four years ago nearly, she is now pregnant again but it took over a year after she stopped her BCP again to conceive so I it just goes to show how different it is between everyone and your own body at different times in your life too.
Amanda Mx
QUOTE (Amanda M @ Nov 15 2007, 07:56 AM) 
My BF stopped hers during her honeymoon as her GP told her it would take " a few months" to clear her system and not to worry if she had not regulated before 6 months.
I became a fairy godmother 9 months and a week and 1 day after I had been her bridesmaid!
That was four years ago nearly, she is now pregnant again but it took over a year after she stopped her BCP again to conceive so I it just goes to show how different it is between everyone and your own body at different times in your life too.
Amanda Mx
I became a fairy godmother 9 months and a week and 1 day after I had been her bridesmaid!
That was four years ago nearly, she is now pregnant again but it took over a year after she stopped her BCP again to conceive so I it just goes to show how different it is between everyone and your own body at different times in your life too.
Amanda Mx
Thanks for the replies. My husband got " fixed" years ago so that's not my worry. I was feeling like crap and the pills seemed to help. I don't want to go back to the way I was feeling. I've felt ok all month and was just hoping to stay that way. I was hoping I felt ok without the pills in my system.
Thanks, Angel
I took BCP for about 7 months, also for peri issues (to make the periods lighter and more predictable), but had to end them when I turned 55 because of potential clotting risks.
I asked the nurse them how long it took for the BCPs to be out of my system, and she said, oh, in a few days.
I had a regular period within 3 days of stopping the pills, like normal, but I haven't had one since then. It's been 2 months since the last period, but I think I had a 'phantom' period - all the signs but no bleeding. I did have one little hint of brown, but that was it.
I, too, keep wondering if some of the peri anxiety (which actually wasn't bad before the BCPs), etc., will return now that I'm off the BCPs, or if a phantom period is a sign the end of periods is near. It's such a guessing game.
I am taking natural plant Estroven (has black cohosh in it and other good stuff), and I get a little twinge of anxiety now and then in the morning, but otherwise, no big change. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop!
I really hope I don't go back to the heavy periods I was having. My daughter is getting married next spring, and I just can't be having that going on. Although, there isn't a lot I can do to prevent it, except maybe the endometrial ablation.
Has anyone else experienced any big changes after leaving BCPs? I heard one person on here say they were fine for 3 months, and then got hit with big-time meno symptoms.
I asked the nurse them how long it took for the BCPs to be out of my system, and she said, oh, in a few days.
I had a regular period within 3 days of stopping the pills, like normal, but I haven't had one since then. It's been 2 months since the last period, but I think I had a 'phantom' period - all the signs but no bleeding. I did have one little hint of brown, but that was it.
I, too, keep wondering if some of the peri anxiety (which actually wasn't bad before the BCPs), etc., will return now that I'm off the BCPs, or if a phantom period is a sign the end of periods is near. It's such a guessing game.
I am taking natural plant Estroven (has black cohosh in it and other good stuff), and I get a little twinge of anxiety now and then in the morning, but otherwise, no big change. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop!
I really hope I don't go back to the heavy periods I was having. My daughter is getting married next spring, and I just can't be having that going on. Although, there isn't a lot I can do to prevent it, except maybe the endometrial ablation.
Has anyone else experienced any big changes after leaving BCPs? I heard one person on here say they were fine for 3 months, and then got hit with big-time meno symptoms.
QUOTE (WriterMom @ Nov 15 2007, 02:50 PM)
I took BCP for about 7 months, also for peri issues (to make the periods lighter and more predictable), but had to end them when I turned 55 because of potential clotting risks.
I asked the nurse them how long it took for the BCPs to be out of my system, and she said, oh, in a few days.
I had a regular period within 3 days of stopping the pills, like normal, but I haven't had one since then. It's been 2 months since the last period, but I think I had a 'phantom' period - all the signs but no bleeding. I did have one little hint of brown, but that was it.
I, too, keep wondering if some of the peri anxiety (which actually wasn't bad before the BCPs), etc., will return now that I'm off the BCPs, or if a phantom period is a sign the end of periods is near. It's such a guessing game.
I am taking natural plant Estroven (has black cohosh in it and other good stuff), and I get a little twinge of anxiety now and then in the morning, but otherwise, no big change. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop!
I really hope I don't go back to the heavy periods I was having. My daughter is getting married next spring, and I just can't be having that going on. Although, there isn't a lot I can do to prevent it, except maybe the endometrial ablation.
Has anyone else experienced any big changes after leaving BCPs? I heard one person on here say they were fine for 3 months, and then got hit with big-time meno symptoms.
I asked the nurse them how long it took for the BCPs to be out of my system, and she said, oh, in a few days.
I had a regular period within 3 days of stopping the pills, like normal, but I haven't had one since then. It's been 2 months since the last period, but I think I had a 'phantom' period - all the signs but no bleeding. I did have one little hint of brown, but that was it.
I, too, keep wondering if some of the peri anxiety (which actually wasn't bad before the BCPs), etc., will return now that I'm off the BCPs, or if a phantom period is a sign the end of periods is near. It's such a guessing game.
I am taking natural plant Estroven (has black cohosh in it and other good stuff), and I get a little twinge of anxiety now and then in the morning, but otherwise, no big change. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop!
I really hope I don't go back to the heavy periods I was having. My daughter is getting married next spring, and I just can't be having that going on. Although, there isn't a lot I can do to prevent it, except maybe the endometrial ablation.
Has anyone else experienced any big changes after leaving BCPs? I heard one person on here say they were fine for 3 months, and then got hit with big-time meno symptoms.
Oops. You see were I'm coming from. I hope the nurse you talked to was right. I'm anxious and don't want to go backwards. But I have a feeling I'll get a period.I have a friend who stopped the pill at 50, only on a few years for peri, she never got her period again. The best case scenario.
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