Does anyone know if changing my pill will calm my periods down? The first time I started my pill was to simply calm my periods down and that was all. Since last year I now use it as a birth control too but it just simply isn't calming my periods down at all and makes me really emotional when I am on my period and it's just really uncomf.y. I'm going through almost 3 packs of pads on a period where I'm heavy for like 3 days so that's a pack a day.