Suddenly Spotting While Taking Birth Control Pills

I have been on the pill for many years. I've had occasional spotting if I forgot one pill or took it later in the day. The type of pill can determine how likely spotting is and how strict you need to be in taking it at the same time each day. I've not had an unintended pregancy in 25+ years of being on the pill.

If you don't want any more children, however, I would be talking with your doctor about permanent birth control options, for you or your husband. Vasectomies are inexpensive, quick, and barely painful.

Breakthrough bleeding is normal when you're on the pill. You took care of things the way you were supposed to at the beginning of the pack when you were late starting it by ONLY a day. And the other pill was late by ONLY a few hours.

However, I'm going to tell you that the pill is not permanent birth control if you never want to get pregnant again. I got pregnant twice on the pill (while taking other medications that interfered). I was religious about taking my medications properly.

If you want permanent and reliable then you don't want a hormonal or barrier birth control.

Spotting is pretty normal when your pill schedule gets messed up a bit.

When I was on the pill that happened to me all the time... the doc told me the pill was working it just wasn't doing as good a job at regulating my periods, apparently it's pretty normal but definitely not cool. The odds of getting pregnant on BC is pretty dang slim so breathe easy and be positive until your appointment!

Don't worry too much right now. I take the same pills and the exact same thing happened to me about a month ago. And I, too, was freaking out! I was sure I hadn't missed a pill. But I got my normal period last time and I am not pregnant. I also was afraid to take a pregnancy test, so I just waited to see if I got my period, and I did. Phew! I don't know what caused the spotting in the middle of the month, and never did find out. But it turned out to be nothing.

Everyone has already said that it's normal on the pill, but you mentioned you noticed it right after sex, could really be nothing more than a little irritation for one reason or another, the brown this morning would have been old blood, so just left over from the night before. I really wouldn't worry, but if you really are done having kids, you might want to look into something with less risk for human error than the pill, so you don't stress yourself out like this again.