TMI: 3-month Pill cycle

[asterroc]

I take a tri-phasil version of the Pill. Usually I start a pack on a Friday night, have 3 weeks of real pills, and week 4 starts placebos (or I just toss them) on a Friday night, and I menstruate for 4 days, Monday morning through Thursday. I am now taking the packs back-to-back: as soon as I get up to week 4 placebos I start the next pack, until the end of the third pack - I am not yet up to that week, my first placebo week will start on Friday.

W1-3 = P1.1-3 = As normal. I didn't even decide until sometime in week 3 that I would start taking the packs back-to-back.
W4 = P2.1 = Old P1.4 = Breakthrough bleeding starting near the middle of the week, continuing into P2.2 = W5, 4-7 days total, light flow.
W5-6 = P2.2-3 = As normal.
W7 = P3.1 = "P2.4" = Breakthrough bleeded started in the middle of the week, light flow
W8-9 = P3.2-3 = Breakthrough bleeding continues, light to moderate flow.
W10 = P3.4 = next week.

That's right, I've a pill-month of breakthrough bleeding - if any males are reading this, the term usually refers to light menstruation happening in the middle of the month while on the pill. ARGH! I keep hoping it will go away. I keep wondering if I should quit, but the problem is I feel I should give it at least 3 cycles to know for sure how it works, but at 10 weeks per cycle that's around half a year!

Anyone else ever try this? How long did it take your body to adjust?

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm feeling fed up, but my scientist brain is saying that one jumbo-cycle isn't statistically significant, plus I haven't yet given my body time to adjust. And yeah, I feel like I've had one non-stop period for nearly a month now, so it's pretty frustrating. I'm going to try and stick it out one more jumbo-cycle and see how it goes.

And I'm jealous at the 3-day period, mine's 4 on the Pill normally. :-P