My boyfriend and I are long distance and our one year is coming up, however the week that I was planning on visiting him, I will be on my period. It's not something that I really want to deal with on our one year anniversary, so I was wanting to either skip or delay my period. I am on Ortho-Tri-Cyclen, which is a triphasic pill. I have tried skipping my period before by just taking a new pack before I started my period, but I had break through bleeding. After doing some research, I found that that isn't the best way to skip your period on a triphasic pill. I found out that in order to at least delay my period by a week, I would take my pack like regular, but when I got to the darker blue pills (week 3) before I start my "sugar pills" (week 4), I get a new pack and take those same dark blue pills instead of starting with the week 1 pills. So it would look something like this: pack 1- take weeks 1,2,3, skip week 4 (the week I should get my period), start pack 2- take week 3. I was wondering if anyone has done this method before and if they were successful? Also, as long as I take my pills at the same time everyday, will I still be protected from pregnancy by doing this?