I take the birth control pill Diane ED 35, and I am in my second month of using it. When it came around to take my first lot of sugar pills, I took them for two days and then went straight back to the active pills. I did this about 13 days ago, and for the last 11 or so days I have had my period. It is fairly light but still noticeable. Why is this happening, and will it go away within the next 6-7 days? Because I am so sick of it and really really can't have my period next weekend. It may be of note that the last pill I was on was Yasmin, and I had a period like this for the entire month that I took it, even though I took all the pills correctly, which was very frustrating! As a result I went on this one. Anyway, thank you! I hope you can help.

Is there a reason you took just two of the sugar pills? Regardless, it is not unusual to have irregular cycles at first when starting a new pill or switching to a new one so there is not really anything you can do differently.

It is annoying, but everyone's body responds differently. Some women never have irregular bleeding, some have it just in the first few months, or off and on, some have it throughout the entire time they use a hormonal type contraceptive.

I originally planned to take them all like I'm meant to, but then I decided I kind of wanted it to be shorter, so I thought by just taking 2, I could shorten it... thank you though!