BCP - why do I seem to be starting my period? I'm still taking active pills!?

Question

-on second month of use of Alesse 28
-taking pill SAME time every SINGLE day

Tomorrow is the last day I take an active pill before starting the intert ones. HOWEVER. The last five days I've had cramps...menstral cramps...and two days now it seems like there's dried blood, though today it became more red. And my breasts are tender. Why if I'm on the active pills am I seeming to be getting my period?
It did a similar thing last month too, though I only got cramps; and it took 3 days on the intert pills before my period actually came.
My body has never been regular - heck my periods used to be 3 months apart or 6 months (the second reason I'm on the pill - to try and regulate the silly things), so I find it strange that I would be trying to menstrate while on an active BCP.
Is this a sign that I should change pills? Or is likely something that will happen will all the pills?
Is this normal?


oooh i hate these cramps. *reaches for a heat pack and presses it to her back*

Answer 1

This is totally normal for the first 1-3 months of being on a new birth control. if its been longer, get it changed, but dont be too concerned. I would still suggest going to the doctor and talking about it anyway, though, just to be on the safe side. are you on Ortho Tri Cyclen Lo? just curious.

Answer 2

I'm on orth tricyclen lo and for the first three months I started bleeding during the last week of the active pills. I complained to my doc but she told me that I needed to keep taking them, that it sometimes takes up to 6 months for the pills to sync with your body. My feeling was that my body was still trying to follow its own cycle and had not yet been "hijacked" by the hormones in the pills.

Answer 3

go to your doctor, i started bleeding inbetween periods and had to get off birth control pills.

Answer 4

could be the pill