Quote: many people/docs believe that if you don't have at least a couple per year that it can be bad for your health. The idea being that if you don't allow your system to flush itself out you'll end up building up things in your system that shouldn't be there. I don't know if there is any truth to that.
No, that's right up there with "you have to have colonics to flush out your colon" as medical misinformation. Remember that if you're on the pill/patch/implant/ring, you are not having a period! The endometrial lining does not build up. When you stop the hormones, you have withdrawal bleeding but not a real period. If you're on continuous use of hormonal birth control, then the build-up is even less - there's literally nothing to flush!
You can read more at The Well-Timed Period or No Period. Of course, everyone is different, but no one should be afraid to use menstrual suppression if they want to.
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Re: We definately don't need 12 or 13 (or more) cycles per year but...
