Random post but has anyone used this birth control? I’ve never been on birth control and tbh I don’t fully understand it. I’ve been basically spotting and sometimes heavier for the past 2 weeks since a week after I started it and I’m about to take the different colored pill. Can someone explain it to me like I’m a child because I don’t understand lol also they say spotting is normal but for almost a month straight ?!?
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I have used this. Yeah with any birth control you may face this. Give it time. You are introducing something foreign to your body. You will redirect your body in a sense… give it time… ask your physician though if you’re really concerned

I haven’t taken this brand before, but essentially you’ll take the blue pills for 3 weeks, and then the white pills on the fourth week. The white pills are placebos (not actual birth control) so that you can have your regular period. For that week, it’s best to not have unprotected sex until you’re back on the blue pills.
The reason they give you placebos is so you still have a pill to take every day so you don’t lose that habit and then forget to start taking your birth control again after your period has ended.

I was on this on/off about 10 years. I was told of all the hormonal bc, it’s the lowest amt of hormones you can get on the market. But you have to give it time, if this is your first pack you may need to go another 2-3 before things level out.
Weirdly enough this pill made my periods VERY irregular. I generally still got my period, it was very light and sometimes only 3 days, sometimes nothing at all, but spotting is normal. (My GYN even said I could skip the white and brown pills and only take the blue pills continuously if I wanted to not get a period)
You have to take it every day for it to work. There are instructions for what to do if you miss a pill but do your best not to miss more than 2 at most.
Having been on it for an extended amount of time, it worked well for me, and once I stopped I never had an issue getting pregnant soon after. So I don’t have an issue with this brand. However it is a pharmaceutical.. just remember that.