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Dr. Andrew Rynne
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Dr. Andrew Rynne

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Hi, I Have Been Taking A Oral Birth Control For

Hi, I have been taking a oral birth control for about 4 months now. I take it religiously, within 20 minutes of the right time every night. I have 3 active pills left, my period has been beginning 2 to 3 days after my active pills end. Tonight, I went to the bathroom and wiped and there was brown blood which has lightly continued.
I am sexually active without a condom, we combine the pull out method with my birth control pill.
I have also read that having diarrhea can cause break through bleeding, but I take my pill at 8:30 PM and had the diarrhea at 11 AM. Unsure if this matters at all.
Please help me get to the bottom of this! Thank you so much.
posted on Mon, 22 Dec 2014
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