Well, your birth control normally overwrites your actual cycle - so you have a withdrawal bleed every 3 months, but you're not having a period ever. Bleeding now doesn't mean a lot except that your body isn't getting the hormones it's really, really used to - it takes a week or so for the ovaries to wake up and consider ovulating. Five days after you stop bleeding is something like ten or eleven days after you stopped taking active pills, right? Even an anovulatory cycle is more than 4 days long, generally speaking.
The good news is that it doesn't actually matter if you take your BC while you're bleeding. You don't need to try to match it up with your natural cycles, because it makes you not have natural cycles anyway. You're not sexually active, so you don't need to worry about using backup for the first seven days. The whole 'start on the first day of your period" thing is for heterosexually active people, so that they don't have to use backup for the first week.
So pick the day you feel like starting on and start. :)
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Date: 2011-12-09 05:48 pm (UTC)The good news is that it doesn't actually matter if you take your BC while you're bleeding. You don't need to try to match it up with your natural cycles, because it makes you not have natural cycles anyway. You're not sexually active, so you don't need to worry about using backup for the first seven days. The whole 'start on the first day of your period" thing is for heterosexually active people, so that they don't have to use backup for the first week.
So pick the day you feel like starting on and start. :)