| Re: Bleeding..! Help!
First of all, don't panic. Secondly, women on the pill experience breakthrough bleeding and spotting all the time, because it's the most common side effect - and that's when they're taking it like they're supposed to every day. But since you keep missing pills all the time, your body is freaking out and doesn't know what to do with all of these hormone fluctuations that are happening. I'm frankly not surprised that you're having bleeding problems, since you keep missing pills so often.
What you need to do is just force yourself to remember to take it at the same time every day. When I was still taking them, I took them at 10pm every night before going to bed. I set a watch with a very loud alarm to remind me every night. I never forgot to take it. You have to make this a habit that sticks with you, if you intend to use the pill at all. You're lucky you're not having sex, too, because otherwise you probably would have gotten pregnant by now with your poor track record of taking it.
But there's nothing wrong with you, you just have to let your body have a steady dose of the pill every day. You're probably going to have this bleeding problem until your next pack of pills when you start taking them regularly every day, and the hormones get leveled off. I'm telling you, you have to take them at the same time every single day and not forget any, because your bleeding is being caused by the hormones not being properly leveled off in your body right now. But there is no reason to think you need any kind of surgery or have any kind of serious problem. You are experiencing the same breakthrough bleeding that happens to majority of women who are on bcps, because they cause it all the time anyway.
Last edited by Bracelet; 08-08-2006 at 05:25 AM.
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