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Question about birth control side effects?
I'm on Pirmella 1/35 for hormone regulation, and if I am late taking the pill by even 3-4 hours, I start spotting. By 6 hours, it doesn't matter if I take it or not, I will go into a full blown period, not just spotting. And it will last for 3-4 days and involve horrid cramping.
If this were an issue of forgetting it at all, it wouldn't bother me, but is it normal for these pills to be so temperamental? If not, is there anything I can do to stop this?
The kinds with varying hormones each week are also out of the question. It took 8 months to recover from what those things did to my cycle, but I have no choice but to take some form of estrogen pill.
1 Answer
- boneheaderssLv 75 years ago
The reason why a person gets their period during the placebo week is because the drop in hormones causes the uterine lining to shed.
Each person metabolizes (break down) medication differently. Birth control pills were designed for the entirely of the female population in mind. Certain people may metabolize at the correct rate while others will metabolize it so quickly so that the medication does not have time to do its job. It is entirely possible that you are one of those people.
Since I am not a doctor, I would talk to your pharmacist (not just any doctor, but a person who actually learned the medications in detail) regarding if the pill is effective for you.
