... but that day is a friday sugar pill and the following saturday and sunday are hormone pills.. do I take them or go to the start of the sugar pills and take them so I have taken all sugar pills, have 1 day of no pill, then begin the hormone saturday and so on pill?
I just started on levlen ED, instructions say to start in the red zone, on the corresponding day,?
Question posted by Elyzian on 12 Dec 2014
Last updated on 16 December 2014
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kaismama
12 Dec 2014
I am so confused. I cannot find a reference with the patient instructions so I have no idea what is in the red zone. I do know one thing. You don't start a pack with an inactive pill. What kind of pills are in the red zone, sugar pills? I can see why they might tell you to do that, but I've never seen it before. All the info I find says take the first pill. Big help. What did the dr tell you to do?
kaismama
12 Dec 2014
Ok, It really doesn't matter if you start with an active or inactive pill. In the long run it will be the same, 21 active pills then 7 inactive pills. The start on the red insructions are if you start the pill on the first day of your period. Here is what I found if you start it any other time. Start taking LEVLEN ED on the first day of your cycle, i.e. the first day of menstrual bleeding. Take a tablet marked with that day of the week. Take your first tablet from the green section. For example, if your period starts on a Monday, take the tablet marked Monday from the green section of the pack. Then follow the days in order of the directional arrows. When you start taking LEVLEN ED your very first cycle may be shorter than usual. However, if you think about it, starting it on the red section makes perfect sense. Must be doing this too long, lol... I would do what the instructions say and just use a condom for the first 8 days.
Elyzian
12 Dec 2014
The red zone is when your period comes, the 2 pills before the start of the red zone are sugar pills (inactive) and the red zone is 5 sugar (inactive) pills followed by 2 hormone (active) pills.. if I take the next pill following the arrows on the pack, it is a active pill which will result in me only having 3 days (approximately) of bleeding instead of the usual 5-7... the doctor told me I could begin to take them whenever, it didn't matter whether I was bleeding or not, it was the leaflet that came with the pills that told me if it was the first time taking it I had to wait until the first day of my period.
I think I figured it out, I'm just going to take the active pill the arrows point to.. I was worried about it forcing my period to stop so early, but I see many women occasionally skipping the inactive pills to avoid a period all together and they're fine.
tina1b
16 Dec 2014
I'm even more confused now... my doc has also prescribed Levlev ED and I had my period about 20 days ago but I want to start taking the pills to induce my period to this week or delay them to come 5th Jan onwards. I dont know where on the pill packet to start. Please help
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