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Birth Control Question
Hi Ladies! I'm new to posting here, so I hope you'll put up with me for this post which I'm sure is going to contain TMI! I was hoping someone out there might be able to give me a bit of advice.
I started taking the BCP a few months before my wedding (05/22/2010), not for BC purposes, but because I didn't want to have my period on the day of my wedding (big white dress + not even being able to pee unassisted = hellllls no). It worked like a charm! I get my period every Tuesday of the "off week" of my pack, and it ends on Friday night or Saturday morning. Like clockwork.
So I was AF free on my wedding day. But somehow, just a few days after the wedding, my period started!! (Mid pack!) The only thing that I can figure happened is that because I took one pill a day late by accident, that somehow threw everything off. Anyway, it started off as just heavy brown spotting (ew, sorry...TMI I know!!) and that lasted until I finished that pack of pills...I kept taking them as normal, because I didn't know what else to do. On my "off-the-pill-week", the brown spotting turned into really really heavy bleeding, and major major cramps...which is completely unusual for me. And instead of ending on Friday or Saturday, it is still going...and this is Monday! I started taking a new pack yesterday, again because I wasn't sure what the heck I was supposed to do.
So now that we have the backstory, here comes the question: I was planning on stopping the BCP anyway, because we really want to see a pregnancy in our near future. However, we are going on our honeymoon cruise in August, and I DON'T want to be having my period then...so I thought I'd continue taking the pill until after we get back from the cruise, and THEN stop taking it. So now I'm just really not sure what to do. Do I keep taking it even though I'm having this really long period? Do I stop taking it until the period stops and then start taking it again?? I am petrified that I am going to be bleeding from now until our cruise!! I am not in any real pain any more, just slightly uncomfortable...but my poor DH has had to deal with a bride who has been having her period since basically three or four days after the wedding!
Ahhhhhhhh!!!! Any advice ladies??
Re: Birth Control Question
You've heard what I've done, not what I've been through.
If you were in my shoes, you'd fall the first step."
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I took a pill a day late the week before our wedding and ended up spotting on and off the whole week of the honeymoon and had my regular period the week after. Like pps I don't think its anything serious, but you should mention it to your doc next week. Right now I'm on Ortho Tri Cyclen Lo and it works great for me. I used to be on Avian, but I was bleeding for two weeks every month on it. When I mentioned it to my doc she switched me to the Ortho which has a slightly higher dose of hormones. Maybe you need something slightly stronger.
I'm really sorry that I can't come up with anything insightful to say to this...
Just know that it's ok to go through a range of emotions even if you didn't know you were pregnant then. You don't have to think "so I guess I didn't really lose anything"... If loss is what you feel, that's ok.
My thoughts are with you!
The Benhams: Married May 1st, 2010!
Ugh! I'm so sorry! Quite a while back, I had a situation similar to yours-- bleeding like crazy for three weeks. I wasn't on any hormonal BC, but I had taken a Plan B, and the nurses told me that those can mess up your hormones and make your body do crazy things for a few weeks. But then the doc told me to take a pregnancy test to see if it was actually a miscarriage. I was most definitely in shock; I felt like I'd been kicked in the stomach when I heard that. My gyno told me that if it were a miscarriage, the pregnancy test would come back positive, and it didn't. So it must have just been the out-of-whack synthetic hormones. That helped me stop shaking. There's probably no way for you to know for sure, but know that it very well may NOT have been a pregnancy, too. ((Hugs))
when I first went on the pill, I got my period for a month straight, no joke. It's most likely because you missed a pill. That's what happened to me. My doctor told me to stop taking the pills until the bleeding was completely gone, then start a new pack. It worked like a charm.
oh wow I didn't read this whole post before putting my response...
HUGS to you. I'm so sorry
Praying that you will conceive again very soon!
Thanks for the kind words - it has definitely been an emotional day. On the one hand, I get this news, but at the same time, I teach kindergarten (5 and 6 year olds) and they were all sooo full of happiness and good cheer today that it's impossible to feel sad around them. We made mini pizzas today as a special treat, and according to them I'm "the best teacher ever" and today was "the best day ever". How can I be sad when they're all such little bundles of joy?
I went from having tears filling up my eyes to belly laughter to tears again all afternoon. So bizarre. I think that the next few days (until I see DH again this weekend) are going to be pretty tough. I hate that we are 4 hours apart when getting this news, when all I want is for him to be here with his arms around me. And I know he hates not being able to be here for me when I need him. The next two weeks can't go by quick enough!!
I agree, whatever emotions you are feeling right now are perfectly all right!