Two periods?

[ceinwyn81.livejournal.com]

I have been taking Ortho Tricyclen-lo For a few months now. I Recently just stopped taking it because I got a huge migraine last Thursday which progressed to diahrrea on friday and the feeling of gotta vomit on saturday.. Sunday night Was bad I couldn't sleep. Then Monday I had to call in because I actually threw up for a couple hours. I decided to stop taking the pill on monday because I was just gonna throw it up again. So now Thursday morning I wake up to find blood all over my thighs and underwear. I just got over my period on the 11th this month. I went to the bathroom and the toilet bowl was red. I called planned parenthood but my clinic is closed for a meeting. I am not sure what this is.. if it's a second period (Why I would have one I dunno) or something else. It didn't smell like Period blood. Should I be really worried?

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[archangelbeth]

From the sound of it, you're having another withdrawal bleed from the pill, which is perfectly normal and even expected in this situation.

See, as I understand it, the body tracks the relative and overall amounts of estrogen/progesterone in the body. The pill artificially raises those up to the "you already ovulated; don't do it again" levels and holds it there. When you take a placebo week, the levels drop to the "okay, time to bleed" levels and you have a withdrawal bleed. Then they're forced up to "don't ovulate" levels when you take active pills again.

What you've done, if I'm reading correctly, is took your pill for a while, then went off it. Taking it raised your hormone levels to "already ovulated," briefly, and going off the pill again lowered them to the "time to bleed" level. Your body apparently had enough uterine lining built up to respond to this, and... you wake up with another withdrawal bleed.

So don't fret. It would probably be stranger not to have any bleeding after going on-and-off the pill like that.

I hope you feel better soon!

[queensugar.livejournal.com]

It's just a second withdrawal bleed. I don't see any reason to be worried.

Your "periods" on hormonal birth control are just withdrawal bleeds caused by the removal of hormones from your system -- during that placebo week, the hormone level drops and that causes your body to bleed.

So when you started a pack and then stopped taking active pills recently, the hormone level dropped again, and triggered another bleed.

[ceinwyn81.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I feel more relieved lol