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I'm on birth control pills (and have been for years) and my period is a week early, brown, and has lasted two weeks now. is this a bad sign?
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Your hormones are in: .. flux for some reason, so hang on for the ride. Irregular periods and spotting could mean you may have some hormonal imbalance that could be affected by many different factors, including age (if approaching menopause?), nutrition, illness, exercise (or lack of it), body girth, psychological well-being, stress, season, or simple fluctuations of other related hormones (thyroid for example).
Answered 11/10/2015
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