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I've been on birth control for 6 months and every month my period come a week early. i continue to take my pills though while i'm on it should i stop?
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Keep taking them: Definitely do NOT stop your pills because you are bleeding. You appear to be in that small percentage of women on the pill who regularly get this sort of late breakthrough bleeding. This is not a problem in terms of effectiveness and is usually not worth the trouble of finding a different pill that doesn't do this. Stopping the pill will only create more problems.
Answered 3/26/2017
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