Posted on March 8, 2010.
When you have breakthrough bleeding while on the pill would it be considered your period? Or is it when you take your sugar pills and your "second" period arrives. Im taking an ovulation calculator to try to conceive our second child and I wanted to know which would be more accurate. Thank you very much!
I am a midwife and although not practicing at this time, remember this question a lot in our practice.
Any bleeding while not the "white pills (sugar pills) is considered breakthrough bleeding is the way your body to fight against the manipulation of hormones, and very common, even if you take the pills for a while, if the bleeding is severe (more than your heaviest period), it is possible that the pill failed, and you have an ectopic pregnancy (rare). or if you recently quit the pill, bleeding abundant and irregularities are common while your hormones return to normal (some women bleed for weeks).
In fact, the time you get there on the sugar pill part of your monthly package is not an actual period (since the pill has prevented you from ovulation) and is only there to give you an idea of regularity and the assurance that you are not pregnant. If you have recently quit the pill, it should take about three months to regulate your body, please do not be tempted to try to conceive during that time (I know it's so hard, if you want a baby). It is good to let your body recover and document your "real" periods of several hours, to tell your OB / midwife for pregnancy dating.
bleeding is just as bleeding. You will always have a period during your "week off.
You would count when you were taking sugar pills "
It took me nine months to get my x Prego time she had the pills I think it stays in your system awhile.but for shits and giggles from the date of your stay grace period.
your period is that during the sugar pills, although your cycle may change alittle time you stop the pill, so I'd ovulation calculator when you are off the pill for a few months.
I think it would be when you have your last menstruation. Your body cycle once you're out of your pill. Watch your flow of mucus and when it turns clear, slippery and "stringy" this is the time of ovulation. It helps the sperm to swim to the egg. You can also experience mild cramping on one side of the abdomen prior to discharge.
Although bleeding is common, it is not normal. But it is just that, "breakthrough". Would you like during your actual pill "OFF". Count 14 days from the day you start your period, and this is where you will most likely be the most fertile.
However, if you try to become pregnant, you should not take the pill. Hence the name of the pill, birth control.
No, you never have an effective duration of the pill because you are not ovulating. As your hormone levels drop during your placebo week of your body simply can not maintain the lining of the uterus and it throws. However, you do not make an egg with it. bleeding does not mean a decline in hormone levels still, it could just be stress.
In addition, an ovulation calculator does not work when you're on the pill because you never, never ovulate. You do ovulation once you've been off the pill for probably two or three weeks.
Looks like you need to take a pregnancy test and call your doctor in the morning.
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