Birth Control Regulating Period? Posted: 07-15-07 14:39pm
How does birth control help regulate
periods and why is it when a person stops
takeing them and stays off they bleed
non-stop?
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Tylanas
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Re: Birth Control Regulating Period? Posted: 07-15-07 14:54pm
Lynn1
wrote:
How does birth control help
regulate periods and why is it when a
person stops takeing them and stays off
they bleed
non-stop?
Not every person who stops taking them
will bleed non-stop. I just got off birth
control and after my last pill-period
finished, I haven't bled since. It's not
time for my first real period yet; it
hasn't been a month yet. I also was on
birth control as a teen, and again, I did
not bleed non-stop after stopping them.
Birth control pills control your cycle
and prevent pregnancy by
making your body think it is already
pregnant. When you are pregnant, you do
not ovulate (release eggs). So, the pills
prevent ovulation. The hormone level in
your body also prevents you from bleeding.
When you get to the placebo week, your
body stops receiving hormones. This causes
the withdraw bleeding.
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Lynn1
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Posted: 07-15-07 17:08pm
Well I just stopped taking my birth
control and have started bleeding and have
been for the past couple days. I was just
wandering was that normal or could there
be something wrong.
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Tylanas
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Posted: 07-15-07 18:26pm
Lynn1
wrote:
Well I just stopped taking
my birth control and have started bleeding
and have been for the past couple days. I
was just wandering was that normal or
could there be something
wrong.
If you just stopped taking the pills and
it was the end of the month on the pills,
then you're just experiencing withdraw
bleeding, which is what is supposed to
happen every single month that you are on
the pills. This bleeding probably won't
last longer than a normal period on your
pills does, and then it'll go away. The
next period you get, a month from now,
will probably be a "real" period, meaning
you ovulated, etc.
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