Breakthrough Bleeding and Spotting
Irregular vaginal bleeding or spotting between periods and (losses minimum drip rate between two periods) are two of the most common side effects of hormonal oral contraceptives, and not infrequently are an unnecessary cause for abandoning the method.
Breakthrough bleeding and spotting during the first cycles of microdose contraceptive use is a common event that is not cause for alarm.
It is because when using low-dose contraceptive steroids to lessen the side effects and maximize safety, is not achieved complete control of the cycle.
In any case, these disorders are often disappear with use, over the cycles.
Moreover, the irregular use of birth control pills often result in poor cycle control, increasing the incidence of bleeding.
Also smokers experienced users between 20 and 90% more dribbling and breakthrough bleeding than nonsmokers.
However, the weight or age have no influence on bleeding irregularities.
Anyway, if the bleeding is heavy or persistent must be carefully assessed to the user and found the existence of some gynecological pathology that could explain the bleeding, for which you must go to your gynecologist.