brown discharge?? Help!

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Registered: 09-11-2005
brown discharge?? Help!
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Wed, 11-29-2006 - 11:17am
Ok so here is the situation. I was on the last week of my active pills and my period was starting over them. I got annoyed and decided to skip my placebo week and just start on the next pack of active pills. Well the bleeding stopped but now I have had this brown discharge for about a week and a half or so. I am wearing a pad still because it is more than a mini pad worth. What do I do? Please help!
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Registered: 07-20-2005
Wed, 11-29-2006 - 12:24pm
I can sympathize with you!!! I started taking the pill last month, and after 14 days began with dark brown discharge. That was 3 weeks ago!!! ARghhhhhhh. The discharge seems to be a little redder for the past few days. Could this be my REAL period? My MD started me on another brand of pills, which I started on Sunday, but just wondering how long this will take to kick in and stop the bleeding???!!!!
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Registered: 12-30-2003
Wed, 11-29-2006 - 1:10pm

Hi snowboardsweetie, welcome back!


      Jill

    

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Registered: 08-27-2004
Wed, 11-29-2006 - 3:18pm

i just wanted to add in, the two times I tried to skip my period by skipping the placebo week, I did not have an "actual" period but I had brown discharge for about a two weeks and one time for nearly the whole month. I'm not a professional of course, but I think its the same kind of stuff that you get during your period but since you took pills its a little less and different. I'm not sure about typical women, but the first day and last few days of my period are always sort of a brownish color (I figured it was like blood, which turns brownish when its old/dry). So I figured skipping it is along the same thing as those ending days after heavy flow of tissue, and the body is just confused a little.

Good luck I hope it works out for you!