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A 19-year-old female asked:

Ive been on birth control for a year now and im on my last pill before my period would start and ive just noticed i started having brown discharge today w no other symptoms. i am sexually active. i take sprintec?

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Dr. Wayne Ingram
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Specializes in Obstetrics and Gynecology
The brown discharge is probably the hormonal withdrawal bleeding that you interpret as a "period" on the Sprintec contraceptive.
Reviewed Mar 22, 2021
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