lots of spotting with high dose pill

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Registered: 09-01-2006
lots of spotting with high dose pill
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Sat, 02-03-2007 - 9:56am

Hi,

if anyone can give me some information or advice about the following it would be greatly appreciated! I'm 23 years old and have a clean medical history.

I was on Marvelon (medium dose) for about a year with no problems. Then, I became sexually active in a long-term relationship, and since then I have had bleeding for about 2 out of three weeks that I am taking the pills. I then have a normal period during the week off.

I explained this to my doctor, who gave me some samples of Diane 35 (high dose), which I used for about 5 months, but the bleeding was much worse, almost every day. Then, I tried an old pack of Alesse I had (I know this is a lot of different pills, it's low dose) and the spotting was much better! As in, about three days during the month I had light spotting. Does this make any sense?

I am living in Switzerland, and it takes about 3-4 months here to get an appt to see a gynecologist, so I don't know what to do in the meantime. I am still regularly sexually active. Is it dangerous to keep taking the Diane 35 even though it's still making me bleed between periods? Could this be something serious? Should I try going off the pill for a month? Why did this start when I started having sex? We are both responsible and have clean sexual histories.

I really have no idea what to do, any help would be greatly appreciated. Has this happened to anyone else?

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Registered: 12-30-2003
Sat, 02-03-2007 - 3:16pm

Hi luar_888, welcome!


      Jill