Spotting when stacking birth control

[ambellina.livejournal.com]

Not happy with my birth control right now.

I've been using the Nuvaring for a long time, since I had my child 4+ years ago, actually. Lately, I have been using the method of keeping the ring in 4 weeks and then just putting a new one in to skip my period after that. (It's been approved as okay to do by my doc for those of you about to say you should only do 3 weeks...) I've done it for 2 months and this would have been my last month before I'd stop to get a period on purpose.

Well, my body didn't want any of that. I got my period while I still had the ring in, a good two weeks before I was going to take it out and have it on my own. They're calling it "breakthrough bleeding", I call it my damn period.

And to top it all off, the ring must have fell out sometime yesterday when I was taking my tampon out. So I am going to my pharmacy to get a new one and am encouraged by the lightening of the blood as hopefully it's a sign the damn period/bleeding thing is going away. And, needless to say, I do not intend on keeping the ring out for at least another 12 weeks from today. I'm calling that my quarterly period and am done with it.

:>

Any advice and/or thoughts?

Comments

[myrcwood-rose.livejournal.com]

Some times it just happens, and afterward you can continue stacking your BC and never have any breakthroughs again, and then there are some of us for whom stacking just doesn't work, who will always have breakthrough bleeds.

[kort-ni.livejournal.com]

Any chance the ring fell out prior to the bleeding or are you sure it came out yesterday?

I stacked the NuvaRing with 4 weeks in like you are for more than 2 years with no breakthrough bleeding (although I had other side effects which made me switch methods), but everyone's body responds differently.

Sorry you are frustrated with it.

[atalanta0jess.livejournal.com]

This happens to a lot of people when they try to stack. It may be a one time thing, or it may just be that your body doesn't like waiting that long, especially on that type of HBC. Another type of HBC (perhaps a higher dose one) might work better for you. Or it might not...there's really know way of knowing. Sometimes your body just does what the hell it wants! ;)

Oftentimes, the best way to stop breakthrough bleeding that has occurred while stacking is to just go ahead and take a ring-free week and let your body bleed. Many people find that if they try to keep taking the hormones, it just prolongs the bleeding. As long as you've had a ring in for at least 21 days, you can take it out for 7 or less days at any point. When you put the new one in after a break, the bleeding should stop. The only thing I'm not sure about is what happens if you take a ring out after 2 weeks of use...whether you can save it to use for 2 more weeks afterwards.

[themaybaby.livejournal.com]

Completely off topic but I <3 ur icon :-)

[pepperoni86.livejournal.com]

off topic, but when i saw your icon, I think it would be fair to say "I jizzed in my pants" :P

[pepperoni86.livejournal.com]

and by that I mean, I was very excited since it is an awesome icon XD

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[ambellina.livejournal.com]

No problem! Sorry about that. :>