Today, I figured out how my birth control works. If you're on your period for four months straight you can't have sex, so you won't be pregnant. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, thanks to a new form of birth control, I've now been having my period non-stop for six weeks. FML
Today, I found out that after using several types of birth control, and being paranoid about pregnancy, I've been infertile for years. FML
Today, after my wife and I have been trying for a baby for 2 years, I found out she's still on the pill. Apparently when she was a teen she had bad period cramps, so her doctor gave her the pill for the pain. She never realized it stops pregnancy. FML
Today, I realized that without my birth control pills, I would have no idea what day it is. FML
Today, I’ve had an irregular period my whole life. I was on birth control and took out my IUD in January. I’ve had my period ever since. It’s going on 5 months now. FML
Today, I found out that morning after pills don't work if you're already ovulating. I also found out that I might become a father wayyyy sooner than expected. FML
Today, I found out that I'm going to be a mother. This was a mystery, since I take birth control and use condoms all the time. Or, at least, it was, until my mother admitted to swapping my pills and poking holes in my condoms so she could have a grandchild before she died. FML
Today, I went to the health department to get on some birth control. I left the health department without birth control, and with the news that I'm pregnant. FML
Today, I was told that since I've had only three or four periods since 2013, there's 60 periods worth of blood clotted in my uterus. They gave me medicine to make it all come out in one week. FML
Today, I found out the hard way that my girlfriend lied about being on the pill four months ago. FML
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Top comments
_whyme_o 12
I think you should see your doctor, because that's not normal :o
Wizardo 34
You should really go to a specialist for this, it could be a serious problem down the line.
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Comments (226)
Cemetery87 10
I call bullshit. OP would be dead from that much blood loss. You body expends nutrients to create period blood. Excessive loss should lead to an iron deficiency. my period was heavy flow for 6 days and i felt weak like i was dying. no way you can have a 4 month one and still be well enough to post this.
Dominion42 12
That's a great point
renjisgirl12 22
You're assuming that she's bleeding every day as much as you do on your 'heavy flow'. also you're probably just more sensitive to blood loss than other women. I used to have a heavy flow that lasted 7 days before I was on birth control, but i didn't feel weak. As people have said multiple times on here, when you bleed for months on end due to birth control, it's slightly less than you would on your normal period, only worsening on you 'actual' period. It's not as though she's constantly spurting out blood like something from a horror film!
janfleury 19
Something is not right. Please see a doc ASAP.
NamelessFace 22
You poor, tortured soul. Satan himself could not create a more devastating fate. Except the Book of Job. But otherwise not.
shaysimonds 8
That happened to me too. Go to a OBGYN.
gracehi 33
I can't believe no one else has said this. Some of us just can't handle hormonal birth control. I can't. I suggest you try non hormonal birth control, such as condoms or the copper IUD. I have the copper IUD, and I love it. No side effects other than heavier heavy period days and slightly more intense cramping, but I have my period for only a few days once a month just like I did before, instead of for two straight weeks every two weeks like I did on hormonal birth control. I also have to do literally nothing to maintain it for ten years. So that's my recommendation, but good luck with whatever you decide to do.
murph_fml 21
I don't understand you kids. Blood is lube, don't you like sex?
uhnevermind 24
That's a really unhealthy way to view sex, and I feel bad for you, and anyone you have sex with.
nadene52 12
You took the depovera shot huh. It did the same thing to it was the worse not cause you couldn't have sex but because of the constant bleeding everyday -. I suggest switching to the oral contraception pills OP
allyiscute1 22
Umm you need to see a doctor ASAP doll that's really not normal;o
PANDORUM89 21
sounds like you went with nexplannon. my Dr said that periods on that can be weird where you could bleed for a month straight have no period for 3 days then start again for 2 days etc. she said people that have heavy periods before starting it can spot the entire time they are on it. I'd switch to something else op.
tossaway2321 5
Idk if your grammar is weird or not but I don't understand what the problem is.
limabeans101029 21
A possible side effect of birth control is bleeding between periods, especially when you first start taking it, which isn't pleasant.