I went to a doctor after skipping a few withdrawal bleeds (and confirmed with multiple tests that I am not pregnant). She told me the bleeding can lessen after taking the pills for a long time, and while usually my bleeding comes back every other month or so, it's very light. However, the past two m...

The bleeding lasted about five days and was heavy as my regular period. It's been a week and I've started bleeding again, and my period still isn't due for another two weeks! Is this normal for a lot of people? I've never had this problem on birth control and I'm a little confused with the nurse I m...

Thank you, that helps a lot! I actually have been super stressed lately since I'm supposed to graduate this semester, and I recently started tracking my calories through an app to keep them down. I guess I just wasn't aware that I could have breakthrough bleeding while on the pill, since the whole r...

I'm on birth control pill since March 2018, and it's been very regular since then. Four day periods. My last period was last week. However, last night when I wiped there was enough blood that it looked like a light period. I asked around and sent an email to my doctor, and the consensus for most tha...

I realize it's been several months since I have last posted here, but as per my doctor's advice, I waited two months to see if the irregularities would settle. Unfortunately, they haven't. My period has extended to three weeks (typically a two-week period followed by the placebo pill week, back-to-b...

Thank you guys for your advice! My period ended yesterday, but that happened to also be the day when I start the placebo week (since my birth control is the 3-week pill with no placebo pills), so it came back full force starting today. Can this actually happen? How common is it? As of today my famil...

Hi Kat! Since you mentioned your periods were really irregular, was it due to birth control or other factors, and how long did that last? My boyfriend and I did actually try clitoral stimulation on a period once but he didn't feel too good about it and quite frankly neither did I. (I wasn't producin...

My boyfriend has a terrible fear of blood and gets very lightheaded at the sight of it—he nearly fainted before a blood donation and they decided not to let him go through with it. I can usually do oral or something on him but nothing penetrative, and because we live two hours apart and have very bu...

I did actually have an issue with my previous birth control (Lupin) becaue of bad congestion before switching to Glenmark. My overall symptoms are usuly better when I'm on it--my periods are lighter and I don't get cramps, but the irregularities have happened regardless of brand. The option my docto...

Ever since I started my birth control in May, I've been having my period every two weeks, often for as 10 days. I only had a week between my current period and my last one, to the point where I am on my period more often than I'm not. I recently went to the doctor and did some blood tests and my thy...

Thank you for responding! My boyfriend and I did sign up for STI testing before we did anything via our university's health services, but the doctor didn't want to perform any tests as we were both virgins and our parents hadn't had any STDs before or at the time of our births. We can get tested aga...

A month ago I had sex for the first time and had spotting for three days afterwards. On the third day the spotting was nearly entirely gone, but the day after the spotting came back more heavily to the point where I wondered if it was a period (which wasn't due for a few more days), although I thoug...

This might sound like a dumb question but I had terrible paranoia about pregnancy every time I have sex. (I lost my virginity only a few weeks ago.) My boyfriend and I had sex about two days ago and he was playing with his penis for a little before asking if I wanted to do penetration--he tried wash...