Birth Control and skipping periods...help?

Question

I skipped my period using BC but 7 days after starting the new pack I got it ( after having sex) Its been extremely light but enough to wear a pad. I've had it for 10 days. on the 3erd day there was a relly big like clump of bood. I think sometrhing is wrong. &i've never had my normal periodpast 6 days. I am taking the Tri BC and have stopped now becuase i dont kow whats happened

Answer 1

You should not have stopped taking it. What you had was called breakthrough bleeding and is common on the birth control. Wait until your next regular period and then start the pill again like you did when you first started it. Next time you have breakthrough bleeding keep taking the pill unless it is to much of a hassle with the bleeding but breathrough bleeding is common.

Answer 2

This JUST happened to me. First of all, you should never have started a new pack if you didn't get your period. I skipped my period because I doubled up for TWO weeks! Don't EVER do that! LOL I skipped a month and of course, I thought I was PG! LOL I took 3 pregnancy test and finally went to the doctor for blood tests - all negative. Got my period 7 weeks late! LOL
I think you're fine. Take a pregnancy test and if you're not comfortable with that, go for blood tests. Good Luck,

Answer 3

Is there a history of fiberoids in the women in yoru family? This would be indicated by painful cramping and early hysterectomies. Fibriods are non-cancerous growths in the uterus that can cause flow to become irregular, respond oddly to birth control and also cause some really weird clotting effects and even brown, extremely nasty flows. I would see your doctor since depending on your age, you can take things that will help control fibroid growth or get them monitored so they do not damage your reproduction. Some of the new BC pills can make them act crazy since they respond to hormone changes. If they are growing, they need to be controlled or removed, sometimes this is easy and sometimes it is major, but I would see the doctor first, since it really sounds like you have some, but they are probably small and just bugging you.

Answer 4

Nothing is wrong at all. Spotting is perfectly normal, is listed as a major side effect in ALL forms of hormonal birth control, and you are one of about 400,000 women nationally who use the Birth Control Pill to stop their periods.

That exact scenario happened to me 7 years ago when I started a new hormonal birth control (I went from the pill to Depo Provera) and I fled to the gynos office thinking I had miscarried, only to be told that I was just spotting and that clump of blood was a perfectly normal normal menstrual clot. I went off of all forms of hormonal birth control for one year and am now back on Depo Provera. Since going back on the shot, I have had a full mestruation just after the first injection, and a month after my last one, I became spotty and the spotting has lasted at least 10 days now. But this is PERFECTLY NORMAL. My body is merely readjusting to the hormones and shedding what remains of my uterine lining. Yours is doing the SAME thing. And yes, I have been wearing panty liners DAILY since it started. It's not enough for a full tampon, but enough to screw up my underwear if I don't wear a panty liner.

Here's What's Going On: Your body naturally builds up a uterine lining every month to give nutrients to an embryo. If there is no embryo, the body flushes the lining out of your body and that is menstruation. The pill mimics the hormones released during pregnancy to stop ovulation, but it doesn't stop the uterine lining from building up because you go off of the hormone for 7 days at the end of your 21 day cycle (the in between pills have no hormones in them at all. They are there so you get in the habit of taking the pill every day). As time goes on, the pill just makes your uterine lining lighter becuase your body thinks it is already pregnant, but even pregnant women can go a few months before discovering pregnancy because they may still spot and think it is a normal - but light - period. This is why your body MAY go through the symptoms of pregnancy during the first three months of hormonal birth control usage (swollen breasts, nasuea, bloating, headaches, fatigue, etc). Some pregnant women have been known to have a false menstruation up until delivery becuase their body just spots that way. (My best friend is a great example of this... she had light but regular monthly "periods" every month while pregnant with both of her two children) If you switch from using the hormones only 21 days a month to continually, as you have, your body is still prepared to shed the uterine lining as it always does, even though it's not supposed to. So you will be spotty. DON'T STOP TAKING YOUR BIRTH CONTROL!!! You will have to start all over if you miss more than three days, thus negating the point of hormonal birth control. If you have missed one day, make it up by taking the pill you missed. If you miss two, you just keep going with the pack and use an extra form of birth control (condoms!!) for the following three weeks. If you miss the third days pill, you have to wait until the end of your cycle and the real natural period to start a new pack.

All good gyno's warn you about these side effects when you start taking hormonal birth control and ALL of them are perfectly normal, INCLUDING spotting and menstrual clots. If your gyno did not and you still have questions, DO call a local Planned Parenthood. They are confidential and well educated. Had I not worked at planned parenthood for two years and been a patient there for 6 years, I would have found the information my family doctor gave me on hormonal birth control to have been woefully inadequate and thus I would have ended up just as scared as you are. But call Planned Parenthood if you want a second opinion. Their entire staff is very well-educated on the side effects, symptoms, and so forth of hormonal birth control and they can always answer any question you have confidentially.

Answer 5

i'm on your comparable boat. I even have in no way ovulated on my very very own. My husband and that i've got been attempting for 4 years. i don't understand why coverage companies do not pay for infertility. i'm saving funds to til i can get the photographs however the medical expert informed me that the photographs are like $a million,500.00 a month and the traditional woman gets pregnant in 3 months. enable me be responsive to what you come across out approximately skipping the start administration..

Answer 6

It's normal to have a messed up period on birth control, especially if you have just begun a new kind. If you're really concerned though, talk to your doctor who prescribed it to you, and they can give you the best advice. Best of luck.

Answer 7

Its normal BUT you should NOT have stopped it without DOCTORS approval, unless you were having really horrible side affects.

Did you skip your period with DOCTOR approval? IF not, you really should have gotten his or her OK.

As you found out, trying to skip your period does not always work.

Answer 8

when you just start BC or change BC it is normal because your body is adjusting. But if you are really worried go see a doctor!

Answer 9

when I took bc the first time right after my period I had another period...thats normal....the bc probably just cleaned you out...somedays your period will be really heavy...


always ask your gyno about it....and if you got it from Planned parenthood...call one of their doctors...

I think you're fine......

Answer 10

Check with your doctor, but it's probably nothing. I pass clots of blood frequently when I'm on my period.