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Skipped last week of birth control pills, and I'm on my period?
21/f
I've been on birth control for 2 years now. I am on microestrogin. The last week of pills are brown and contain iron and no hormones. I have not missed a pill so far and I needed to skip this months period since I am going on a trip. I heard that if you skipped the last week of birth control, I won't get my period. I did that, I did not get my period, the second week, I've been bleeding/spotting/and I'm on my period. It looks like old blood. I thought it was supposed to skip it? What do I do? Does it not work for this particular birth control? Is my body just getting used to it so that means I can only skip my next month period?
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You shouldn't have bled at all but it's possible that your body isn't used to not having a period so you... Call your doctor and ask... It's still effective though.
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Birth control is supposed to be taken according to doctors and pharmecuetical instructions. So deviating from them can cause issues. Your body was getting used to this schedule so your uterus was building up a certain amount of the lining. Your particular prescription has a week of different pills. So unless you've been told by your doctor that your type of pill will shorten periods to only a few days or you wont have a period at all, then yours requires your body to have a weeks time for period flow. When you passed by the week of the non hormone pills, it means the body didnt have a chance to shed the current lining built up in your uterus. What you did wouldn't stop a period until the following month came along, it only delayed it. It doesn't mean your pill isnt working right or body needs to get used to...it simply means you are expecting one product to produce the results of another. I personally believe that confusing the body too much into thinking its pregnant and messing with the period cycle by shortening or stopping it altogether is a technology of today that is not in a womans best interest. Many getting off the pill later trying to start a family have difficulty getting pregnant cus their body is confused after so many years on the pill.
If there was a pill you could take that changes the color of your eyes from brown to blue, would you do it if there's a chance one in a thousand people become blind from taking it? I certainly wouldnt. My eyesight is a precious thing, just as my ability to have children is. I didnt want to mess with it so I used Paragard, the copper IUD...no hormones.
Some pills have shortened the time of rest for the body to expell any lining from a week to a few days. And some allow you to not have a period at all but those are totally different prescriptions. You cant take a prescription that has a week of placebo's (non hormonal pills) and expect it to act and respond the same as the others just because you varied the way you took them. Check with your doctor about what your particular pill will do. If you want to be on one that guarantees no period, its your choice to mess with your bodies natural processes that way, just ask if the Dr. can put you on it.
However, if I were you, I'd check into Paragard. One time insertion into uterus by Dr and it lasts for 7-10 years. No having to take something daily. No hormones to mess with your body which means your body will have its normal functions not messed with. You'll still release eggs, you'll still have your normal periods. The difference is that the copper of the IUD makes the lining too slippery or inhospitable for a fertilized egg to attach to and without it being able to attach, it can't grow into a baby, it dies and flushes out with your period blood. A woman is not pregnant until an egg attaches to the uterus lining.
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