okay so my boyfriend and i have been together for the past year and a half, and i just started my first pack of Microgestin birth control on January 31 and so far i thought it was going fine. This saturday im suppose to stop my birth control and next week i get my period and the week after i start em up again [so on and so forth]. Well, last saturday [February 13th] i started noticing brown spotting and ive been getting very small cramps, today however the brown spotting was heavier and the cramps arent bad but im getting more of them. I dont think it can be pregnancy because i havent had sex in almost 3 months, the gyno even said im not pregnant or anything . could this be a sign of my period coming or could it be a side effect of my birth control? im so lost and sorta scared, im not sure what it is. have i done something wrong?
If you are on birth control pills, you have probably experienced breakthrough bleeding at some point, which also often shows as a brown discharge. This can happen as your body adjusts to the artificial hormones in the pills, which work like natural hormones to regulate your uterus when it sheds its lining.