sugar pills - what now?
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| Mon, 02-23-2004 - 9:39am |
well, i feel like a lot of you have been watching my first month on bc unfold on this board! i keep coming back with more questions. hopefully, this will be the last one for a little while! i had been spotting since last saturday (so over a week, as of yesterday). the flow was a fairly light, pink and dark brown discharge. i called my doctor to see if this was ok and she assured me it was not uncommon and to just continue taking my pills as normal. anyway, i took my first sugar pill last night when i always take my pill and today i no longer have a flow and even my breasts are much less sensitive. is this normal? i'm worried that my period won't come at all now. i'm on loestrin. should i expect some sort of flow to start again in the middle of the week sometime? i just don't know what to expect anymore!
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Difficult as it is to deal with the uncertainty, anything could happen this week! You could start your "period" in a few days, or it could be that the spotting was this month's "period". I know that when I was on the pill sometimes my period came during the placebo week, sometimes it started a few days early, sometimes it was a week early, & sometimes I spotted for the last two weeks (one of hormones, one of placebo pills) of the month.
Unfortunately, no one can tell you what to expect. Hang in there & try not to stress out, if you've taken your pills correctly you shouldn't have to worry about pregnancy, any weird (lack of) bleeding patterns is likely just your body getting used to the pill.