How do you take the Pill?

In the UK, you’re given a pack containing 21 Pills and you take one every day for three weeks. At the end of those three weeks, you ‘break’ for a week. During those seven days, you’ll have your period.

It is stopping the Pill at the end of the pack that brings on the period.

After the week’s break, you start on your next packet. So it’s ‘three weeks on and one week off’ throughout the year.

If you want to, you can set your mobile phone so that it beeps at the same time every day, to remind you to take your Pill.