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So I was talking with some girls at work, and we started discussing how they came out with a new birth-control that you can take year round. Yes I said year round!
“LYBREL is the first and only FDA-approved, low dose combination birth control pill you take 365 days a year, with no placebo or pill-free intervals. LYBREL provides the same low level of hormones every day — so for as long as you take LYBREL, you won’t have your regular monthly period. Breakthrough bleeding and spotting is likely while taking LYBREL. However, for the majority of women this usually decreases over time.”
Lybrel works much the same way as regular birth control pills and has the same rate of effectiveness (99%) in preventing pregnancy. Lybrel contains the same widely used hormones as other birth control pills but is taken every day without a break for menstruation. The continual daily dosing of these hormones no uterine lining is formed, and so most women experience no bleeding or only some spotting or break-through bleeding.
I talked with the some of the pharmacists here at my work, and they said they’ve seen a lot of doctors writting for it now.
Only one question left in my mind. Who do you think pushed for this discovery of year round birth control, men or women? 
~HB~
December 13th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I want I want I WANT!
June 9th, 2008 at 10:05 am
i have been taking lybrel for a month and a half now…..let me tell you for the past 2 to 3 weeks its been non stop bleeding thru. I have not had actual red blood but it’s just non stop spotting. I wonder when it will go away? I dont know anyone else on it who can tell me.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I have been taking Lybrel for three months now and I have had intermittent spotting the entire time! I guess it’s not working out so great for me either.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:33 am
I’ve been on it for months - at least 8 now..
i had a perfect clear first month or two. then a couple weeks of spotting. then a few weeks of clear. then a month spotting and a painfully heavy period. then two months clear. then two month spotting, and one more month light bleeding.
according to my doctor, the longer you take a monophasic pill like this, the more your body will adjust. everyone is different - but most will have spotting in the beginning months. your body is used to building up that uterine lining, and every day that you take the pills, it trains your body to make less and less lining. since it won’t stop producing lining immediately, you’ll still have spotting/bleeding until your body learns to just knock off production altogether.
my body is apparently a slow learner.
i’m going to stick with it for now, because the promise of a period-free life is something i’ve dreamt of since this awful curse started!
PS - To all you uneducated ladies out there who think that you need to have a period because it’s “natural” or “cleansing” need to do some serious research. If you’re on hormonal birth control, that period you’re having is fake anyways! So why not just get rid of it?