I am going through what everyone else is going through as well! However I am taking the off brand of Seasonal. It is SUPER annoying and putting a HUGE damper on the sex life! It has happened to me before and normally I am able to get rid of it within the week if I take the pill I miss along with that days pill, but not this time! It's been nearly 3wks! I have been more stressed than usual the past few months & did miss a couple times last month but just took that days pill, ignoring the ones I missed (normally that helped). So I am in the same boat as all of you & I hope that is goes away before the end of this upcoming weekend!!! I will try & destress myself the next couple days with relaxation & an upcoming pedi-appointment!! Have a good New Year!!
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Ok, I had this and I went to a doctor to get it all figured out, got a pap smear, etc. I'm also on birth control. Yaz apparently is a common BC that causes the dark brown discharge, but it's rly all birth control. I do not take the inactive pills b/c my periods are severe with pain.
Basically, if you take BC to the point where you have little to no periods at all, you get the discharge b/c your body is trying to release the old eggs, uteran wall, etc.
According to my doctor, women need to have periods at least once every 3 months. So, what I do is when I end a third pack..I take the inactive pills and just suck it up and have a period. It's a nasty 1 mind you, but the discharge DOES disappear afterwards. So, to avoid the awkward moments and icky experiences, if you see it, stop taking ur pills and let ur body have a period.
Basically, if you take BC to the point where you have little to no periods at all, you get the discharge b/c your body is trying to release the old eggs, uteran wall, etc.
According to my doctor, women need to have periods at least once every 3 months. So, what I do is when I end a third pack..I take the inactive pills and just suck it up and have a period. It's a nasty 1 mind you, but the discharge DOES disappear afterwards. So, to avoid the awkward moments and icky experiences, if you see it, stop taking ur pills and let ur body have a period.
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I was so Happy When i got ON Birth control because i felt like the momment was to spiecal to say "hold on let me get the condom" ........me and my boyfreind are both clean so why not just get on birth control right .............but then the brown discharge started happening about a day later after we had unprotected sex. I was scared i thought to myself could this be a STD :( so i started to think hard.................my docter did tell me to start takng the bc during my period .... thats something that i didnt do ............then when the dicharge started it started out as my period with alot of blood clots with that ass of a discharge............and i also started having cramps ..............could this be my period ............well i need to find out soon before my panties start runnig out of my dresser :x do to what happen to the others
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i have been having the same problem now for maybe like a week. I used to be on ortho-lo but switched because I started to become crazy on it, like moody as helllll. so i switched to yaz. have been on for a long time now, but this discharge stuff is kinda new. me and my boyfriend have sex all the time without a condom, but this has never happened. I was just recently diagnosed with an abnormal pap, so i went for a colposcopy and those result said that i had hpv. hpv is that new thing you hear about all the time on tv now. they have shots for it. its very common now a days, and is transmitted by men (they are the carriers). well i was doing some research and came across something that said that if you have hpv, this could be from the infection. i am conducting more research. i will also be visting my gyno very soon.
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I had the same thing happen to me on the low dose BC Yaz. Once I switched to Yasmin 28, which is a higher hormonal dose, it went away. Hope this helps!
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Its not just Yaz because I take another form of BC. It is normal ladies. Its just something BC does to your body. But trust me it is normal.
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omg i am on ortho tricyclen lo and i had somewhat of a brown discharge. i called my gyno and she said it was nothing to worry about. she told me that if my period was different at all to let her. she thinks that my body is reacting to the hormones in the birth control differently after taking it for a year almost. it is scary and lately i have been having lower back pain and headaches which she said are not related to my period.
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Yeah this is my second month on yaz, my doctor suggested it because I have really heavy periods that cause my iron levels to sink drastically and make me so tired. Well, same as all of these women, second month rolls around and i forget to take a pill one day and the next day this brown discharge starts. after reading all these posts, i am almost positive its just a symptom of the pills messing with hormones. If it continues or gets painful or itchy tho, you may need to talk with your gyno.
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Ive been on Sronyx birth control for two months now. i took it once before in like november, but i didnt finish the pack because they made me feel weird. anyways, i started a new one on thursday and it is now monday. i started the day after my period which lasted from march 3 to march 9. ive missed a day and taken two at one point but after my period i started getting this brownish discharge along with a bit of blood. im not absolutely sure its from the birth control though because i think i might have had a miscarriage a while back. back in november i bled for about 20 days, but was too scared and embarassed to tell anyone or do anything about it. once it stopped my period began normally and i started the birth control first on january when i got a boyfriend. also, when we have sex, it doesnt hurt during, but afterwards i am so sensitive and sometimes it itches or feels really irritated down there. peeing kind of stings. hes only had sex with one other person and she was clean, me on the other hand, ive had sex with about 7 people and most were unprotected. i know what i should do, but im scared of being judged or told i shouldve done something earlier...what you think i dont know that?
but this brown discharge stuff, could it be from the birth control, or sex, or whatttt? i have no clue :$ :-( 3
but this brown discharge stuff, could it be from the birth control, or sex, or whatttt? i have no clue :$ :-( 3
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My situation is somewhat similar to everyone's story I've read, however, let me explain. Around May Last year I got what I thought was going to be a normal period. It was ridiculously heavy and I bled through everything, I had it every day after that, some days getting extremely light as if it were barely there, some days vanishing. Of course on the few lucky days I didnt have it my boyfriend and I had sex. I found that the next days my period was even heavier with nasty blood clots accompanying my urine. I became pale, very weak and extremely moody. 7 monthes later, I checked myself into the hospital, they ended up giving me 4 blood transfusions and the nurse there prescribed me birth control (loestrin) and iron pills.. the first month did nothing, I stopped bleeding for four days I was ecstatic! But then I started bleeding, again. matter of fact I think I bled worse than before I entered the hospital, but a month later the pills started to take affect. As long as I am taking my pills, I don't bleed, but the day I miss one, I get a dark brown almost black muddy sometimes slimey brown discharge for days and days and days that sometimes turns back into a period. I havent been to my follow up exam but I have no idea whats going on? will I always have to be on birth control pills? Can I have kids? has this happened to anone before?
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I am also going through the same thing...2 weeks ago my gyn doc called me and informed me that I had an abnormal pap (ascus). I was so freaked out that day i forgot to take my Yaz pill. I took it the following morning and the next one at the regular time. Since then I have had brownish discharge and am worried because i don't know if the discharge is from the missed pill or the abnormal pap. I have a colposcopy scheduled for a week from today and am pretty scared too. I'll repost in a week and let everyone know how it turs out. %-)
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I just started taking Yaz and am now on my second month. Halfway through week 2 I got that awful brown mucuos discharge that everyone has been talking about. It's not heavy enough for a tampon, but it does require a pantyliner or else I am going to run out of underwear very quickly! It's been a week now and there has been no change...just the same grossness every day. It's quite annoying and has been killing the mood for sure. I have also noticed that it has made me feel very PMSy - I have been crying and getting upset over nothing, feeling anxious - all the things I went on BC to avoid!
I am going to see my gyno in a couple weeks and I'm not sure if I should stay on the pill until then or just stop right now. It's making me miserable! :-(
I am going to see my gyno in a couple weeks and I'm not sure if I should stay on the pill until then or just stop right now. It's making me miserable! :-(
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hey i just got on birth control and i got my period for a whole too weeks maybe and it bothers me so much i hate it but i din get my period for the 3rd week and after i had sex i got it. then all of a sudden it started to hurt when i peed i thought it was a uti but i went for a test they said it was negative but it hurt as if it was. and im gettin brown discharge which is gross i dnt like to use public bathrooms or n e thin what is wrong with me.
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It might be a vagina infection, you should try to research some medicine to use for your vajayjay.
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So I've been on YAZ birth control for a little over a year now and have been just fine with it up until this past month. I started my period on May 1st and usually it lasts about 4-5 days or so.. I'm not bleeding red anymore, but have lots of brown discharge that only comes out if I push (bowel movement, or cough really hard, etc).
Basically, to answer your questions... the brown discharge is old blood. Stuff that didnt come out on your last cycle or that is left over from the one you just had. The period I had in April was pretty short, like 3 days and was really light so I can only assume that what I have now (the discharge) is just because my body didnt have enough of a cycle last month. Birth control basically "tricks" your body into having a period and "tricks" it into stopping. It's basically the hormones. I got put on birth control because my hormones were out of whack. I'd go 2-3 months without a period and then would have one for about 2-3 months. Theres a hormone that releases in your body to have the period and then when your body has enough estrogen (or a hormone like that) then that's when it stops. That's what my OB/GYN told me anyway.
I wouldn't be too worried. I've had plenty of problems and actually went into the ER yesterday for this problem and they didnt seem too worried about it either. Just give it time. Think of it this way.. at least your (probably) not pregnant! XD
Basically, to answer your questions... the brown discharge is old blood. Stuff that didnt come out on your last cycle or that is left over from the one you just had. The period I had in April was pretty short, like 3 days and was really light so I can only assume that what I have now (the discharge) is just because my body didnt have enough of a cycle last month. Birth control basically "tricks" your body into having a period and "tricks" it into stopping. It's basically the hormones. I got put on birth control because my hormones were out of whack. I'd go 2-3 months without a period and then would have one for about 2-3 months. Theres a hormone that releases in your body to have the period and then when your body has enough estrogen (or a hormone like that) then that's when it stops. That's what my OB/GYN told me anyway.
I wouldn't be too worried. I've had plenty of problems and actually went into the ER yesterday for this problem and they didnt seem too worried about it either. Just give it time. Think of it this way.. at least your (probably) not pregnant! XD
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