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A member asked:

Ive noticed brown discharge instead of a period since stopping the pill 6 weeks ago is this a side effect of stopping the pill?

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Dr. Robert Killian answered

Specializes in General Practice

Brown is Blood: The Brown discharge is your period. It is blood. It just has lost all of its oxygen and is fully deoxygenated.

Dr Maes agreed

Answered 7/12/2014

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