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I have been taking my current contraceptive pill(mercilon) for 10 days now and yesterday i began bleeding. this has never happened before.

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Breakthrough bleed: this is not uncommon with oral contraceptives, usually due to hormonal influences. Continue taking you BC pills wheter you are bleeding or not.

Answered 1/22/2015

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