I apologize for my embarassing lack of knowledge on the topic (it's my first time on HBC), hopefully someone will be kind enough to shed some light on the matter.
I'm going on holiday at the end of this month, but my period was scheduled to arrive exactly during those days (talk about perfect timing). Knowing my period and its crippling effects on my body fairly well, I decided to ask my gyno for something to delay it. She put me on Zoely and told me to skip the 4 placebos and go straight for the second pack of active pills in order to be period-free while on holiday.
Now, my boyfriend and I are in a long term relationship, but we've always used condoms as I'm not exactly thrilled about the idea of taking HBC for prolonged periods of time. However since I'm already on birth control at the moment, I thought we might as well make the most of it. But since I'm as paranoid as they come, before ditching the condoms I'd like to know: will the pill be fully effective when I start the second pack even though I skipped the sugar pills from the first one?
I probably should add that now we're still using condoms since I started the pills on the 8th day of my menstrual cycle (a couple days after my period ended) and, you know, better safe and sorry.
Thanks in advance to everyone!
