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If you keep taking the pill when you're pregnant will you still get a period?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

No: No, not if you are pregnant. But that doesn't mean that you can't have spotting or bleeding (just not from your period).

Answered 4/7/2013

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