I am 23 years old, I have been on birth control pills for 5 years straight.
My doctor changed my pills to a different brand about 8 months ago. Last month I noticed I was having break through bleeding. I was spotting brown blood everyday for 2 weeks.
I have never missed a pill or taken any late. I finished that pack, had a short 4 day period, and started my new pill pack two days ago and I am having break through bleeding again!
My husband and I have unprotected sex, so I took a pregnancy test 3 weeks ago and one again today and both were negative.
I am not having any pregnancy symptoms, and I am 100% sure it is not STDs. All my check ups are perfect and I have never had this happen before or ever been pregnant.
Why would my pills all of a sudden start causing this after 8 months?
Is my body rejecting my birth control pills?
Could I get pregnant because of the break through bleeding?
2006-09-26 15:36:43 · 5 answers · asked by PrettyWifey 2 in Health ➔ Women's Health
different brands and types of pills have different amounts of hormones (estrogen and progesterone). The bleeding could be a result from the lower estrogen in the new pills. Ask your doctor if this is a problem, but no, you aren't rejecting birth control pills, just readjusting to the hormones.
2006-09-26 15:55:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get back to your Doctor as soon as you can and let him/her know about the break through bleeding. Sounds as though this is not the right pill for you....Maybe an additional form of birth control wouldn't be a bad idea until you hear what the Doctor has to say. Good Luck!
2006-09-26 16:04:33 · answer #2 · answered by KathieJo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birth control pill use.
The effect of using birth control pills on a woman’s subsequent
menopausal period is in large measure an unstudied phenomenon,
but birth control pills – which work by suppressing your native
hormones, can themselves lead to many health problems. Many of the
problems of estrogen dominance, including fluid retention,
depression, headaches, and urinary tract infections, are experienced
by women using birth control pills. Everything we’ve said about the
negative effects for menopausal women of using progestins applies to
the progestins used in birth control pills. Having altered your
normal hormonal cycles when using the Pill, you are more prone to
symptoms at midlife as well as potentially more serious health problems.
This is because the synthetic estrogens and progestins used in the
Pill can interfere with the body’s own progesterone receptors. The
progestins are more potent and may inhibit the product of your body’s
own sex hormones.
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2006-09-26 15:40:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It might be the brand. They may call it generic and theoretically it should work the same way as the others. But it doesn't always happen that way. Also, have you been under more stress? That could also be a problem.
2006-09-26 15:41:16 · answer #4 · answered by lilgracie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most likely you wont be able to use birth control pills anymore, you might need to just use normal condoms, i did this years ago and ended up with cancer, so do take care of yourself.
2006-09-26 15:40:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋