begun the pill on spotting not period!?

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begun the pill on spotting not period!?
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Wed, 07-12-2006 - 10:09pm

hey, please help!

so i got birth control (the pill) a couple weeks ago but had to wait until my period came. it usually comes between the 9th-14th (i'm weird, i know).

finally last night on the 11th i saw some bleeding. so i put in a tampon, waited until nine when i wanted to take the pill..and took the first pill.

this morning i changed tampons and instead of my normal bleeding there was a tiny spot with brownish blood. i was confused but figured it might be a slow start so i put in a new one and went on with my day. a while ago i changed tampons again, and like the first time..just a spot of brownish blood.

now..i don't know if this is some highly irregular (i'm weird, but not this weird) spotting coming when my period should..or if my period is just being slow starting or exceptionally light this month.

i haven't had sex in over a week, and every time we use a condom and it has never broken and i've gotten my period before after we had sex.

it also can't be spotting because of the pill, because last night was the first time taking it ever.

so my question is, should i take the second pill tonight at nine (it's seven pm here right now), and hope that im on my period and that everything is ok. or wait and see if i actually bleed more and then re-start it with the second pill..even that might mess it up.. or what should i do??

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance!

-kristine




Edited 7/12/2006 10:31 pm ET by klandy
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Wed, 07-12-2006 - 10:57pm

Hi

      Jill

    

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Wed, 07-12-2006 - 11:11pm

thanks :)

i think i'm going to take the pill tonight and from now on. thing is, i don't have any bleeding right now so i'm still very confused.

i talked to my boyfriend about all of this and now i'm in tears. he's incredibly supportive but he wants me to go to planned parenthood (i have a card for free help and stuff) to talk to them about this. but that would be a huge ordeal to get there without my parents knowing (i'm 18 but have very little freedom).

the next thing is my fault for being so stupid, but i have a huge anxiety about doctors. i have no idea how i survived going to get the pills in the first place. maybe because they didn't ask me too many questions.

what i want to do is keep taking the pills, hope that i'll get a real period and more bleeding or just keep taking them and wait for next month..while using condoms when we have sex.

but, even though the condom never broke or anything like that, he's worried that i may be pregnant. because i'm irregular-ish i dunno when you should use one of the otc pregnancy tests, nor do i know if i could go buy one tomorrow and get accurate results. i don't have any symptoms of being pregnant, and i went through the pms stuff last week so i dunno.

so now i'm just kind of waiting to see what happens and hope he doesn't try to force me to go to the doctors because i'll have some kind of mental breakdown. i dunno what to do. or if we're over-reacting over nothing. meh.

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Thu, 07-13-2006 - 1:46am

>>because i'm irregular-ish i dunno when you should use one of the otc pregnancy tests, nor do i know if i could go buy one tomorrow and get accurate results. <<


      Jill

    

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Thu, 07-13-2006 - 7:48am

You should also realize too

Judie Cl for Birth Control 
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Fri, 07-14-2006 - 3:44pm

thanks for your help you guys. you were right. it just seemed a little odd to me, because while i'm irregular..ish, i had never had spotting days before my period. so, it just seemed a little odd for it to happen right when i was trying to start the pill.

i've taken it for three days now, and all is well. yesterday i bought a pregnancy test (which was an ordeal itself because i got stuck in the wrong checkout line with a first day checker, behind a little old lady with a bunch of stuff who liked to talk, and who was checking out my loofa sponge, which was sitting right ontop of the box of tests. oy vey.) and it, as it should, said i wasn't pregnant.

then randomly right now (i just woke up at noon, it's summer..hush), i go to the bathroom and ta-da..real period-like blood. so who knows.

anywho. sorry i freaked out, it was just a little weird. i'll keep taking the pills and if i have anymore concerns i'll come here!