Change of pill; period for over 2 weeks!
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| Mon, 05-26-2008 - 9:15pm |
Hi all,
I'm not sure where to start, but I'll try to make the background as short and as informative as possible.
I started on the pill at 17 b/c of very heavy, painful, long periods (a curse mom my mom was able to escape - but she thought I was going on BC due to sex, and that was NOT the truth). I'm now almost 36 and have been on about 7-8 different pills ever since about 1990. Got prego in 2000 and have one very healthy son- no issues there. Skip to today - I'm on the pill and also have a script for Flexeril (muscle relaxer) to help with cramps (had the Flexeril since about 1999). About 2 years ago the PMS symptoms started getting worse..... HORRIBLY painful an long periods, etc. They did an ultrasound to see if I had fibroids or some other issue - nothing showed up. Bad genes I guess... So last year my gyno put me on Seasonique - just to lessen the PMS issues to once every 3 months rather than every month - didn't work. I still got ALLLLLL the symptoms, but without the period. At my last visit, I told him so..
He put me on a new pill - Loestrin 35 and told me to take in continuously so I don't get a period at all. Well, I've been on the new pill for about 6 weeks and all was great up up until about 2.5 weeks ago. I started having spotting, which he said was normal, but I've had a flat-out period for like 2 weeks! I called their office and talked to his nurse. She said my only other alternatives were an IUD, another pill or a hysterectomy. I'm not sure what to do at this point.
My main reason for calling was to see if that after changing to this new pill you get your P for a LONG time before your body synch's in and you don't get it at all.
Any suggestions? ALL WELCOME - PLEASE! :-)

Hi stray_daisy and welcome to the board.
It isn't unusual, when making a change in hormonal birth control, for your body to take 2-3 months to adjust.
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Hi Lisa,
Thanks for the info.
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