still spotting?

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Registered: 12-12-2003
still spotting?
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Sun, 05-02-2004 - 6:05pm
Well, I appreciate the responces I recieved with my last question, but I have one more. So, its sunday and I have been spotting.. heavier spotting... since wed. Now I am on the sugar pills and I am wondering when I should expect it to get heavier, or if it will stay light. Also, if I did get pregent on the pill, would I be bleeding? I know we were carefull, but the hormone change is making me so nausious and tired. Is this normal too with a new birth control? Here is my background.. I had my son 15 months ago, went on the mini pill, went off of that for 3 months and now I am not tri vora. I still breast feed only at night before he goes to bed so could that make hormone difference too?

Sorry I have so many questions!

Sarah
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Registered: 03-19-2003
In reply to: sapenn1
Sun, 05-02-2004 - 6:12pm
That's okay Sarah, questions are better than guessing! If you're on the inactive pills, it may get heavier any time, or it might not. Personally when I've had late-cycle spotting most recently, it didn't change any once I was hormone-free. Usually in a typical cycle, bleeding starts 2-5 days after the last active pill.

#2, usually bleeding during pregnancy is a very bad thing, so if you're bleeding now, it wouldn't seem likely that you'd be pregnant!

#3, Nausea and fatigue can be common when you're starting the pill, and it wouldn't seem farfetched to me (not that I know anything...;) ) that you'd still have some hormonal weirdness if you're still producing milk. Fatigue, I hear, is very common with moms of infants too. ;)

Good luck! I hope things go well...

Judie

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