The commercial for Seasonale, a birth control pill, raves about getting only 4 periods a year. So what's the deal? Is that safe? Birth control pills can either be monophasic, where you get the same amount of hormones each day, or triphasic, where you get a different amount of hormones over 3 weeks. When you take a monophasic birth control pill, each 4 week supply contains 3 weeks of hormones Read more

See ya Aunt Flo. Adios cramps! Sayonara uncontrollable mood swings and chocolate cravings! Hello Lybrel! This new birth control pill, expected to be announced on Tuesday by the FDA, will help women avoid their periods altogether! Allow me to throw a little background history your way. Before the wonderful invention of birth control, women spent most of their time pregnant or breast feeding, Read more

The commercial for Seasonale, a birth control pill, raves about getting only 4 periods a year. So what's the deal? Is that safe? Birth control pills can either be monophasic, where you get the same amount of hormones each day, or triphasic, where you get a different amount of hormones over 3 weeks. Seasonale and other monophasic pills allow you to take them in any sequence you want. Each pill Read more