1st month Yaz - Long period!

JosieFB · 01-12-2007, 11:22 PM

My gyn gave me Yaz to try to make my periods less painful. I was planning on taking two packs back to back without taking the inactive pills. Everything went great for 4 1/2 weeks. Then I started spotting, and after a few days got a full blow period despite continuing to take active pills. I read on the internet that once you have breakthrough bleeding with any pill, it's better just to stop taking the active pills and let the withdrawal bleed happen. Since I've stopped taking the active pills, I've bled heavy for 4 straight days plus the two days before I stopped taking the active pills. I'm not cramping as much as I would if it was a non-BCP period, but I'm not used to having such heavy bleeding for so many days. When not on BCP, I have two heavy very painful days and then it's pretty light for 3 or 4 days. I'm hoping when I restart the active pills tonight the bleeding will slow/stop. Anybody had an experience like this? I feel for you ladies who have periods that go on for weeks or months. My uterus would be long gone if I had to deal with this all the time.

kid? · 01-20-2007, 07:17 PM

Hi there,
Um with yaz.. my af is unusually late, like you know the inactive pills go from wed-sat.. af comes on sat morning

and so I usually start the active pills on sunday, and it tapers off til tuesday or so..
Good luck.

dance0016 · 01-23-2007, 09:40 PM

I am currently on Yaz. My periods have always been long on them (its my 4th month). I start spotting on like week two, and it just continues until the beginning of week 4, when I have a full blown veyr heavy period until a few days into my next pack. So basically, yes, I've been having similar problems. I think I just really don't like Yaz lol.
I never read that you should stop the active pills though.. I think doing that would make it harder for your body to adjust, and might trigger your period? Not sure...

JosieFB · 01-24-2007, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by dance0016

I never read that you should stop the active pills though.. I think doing that would make it harder for your body to adjust, and might trigger your period? Not sure...

I think the problem is once you have breakthrough bleeding, it's not going to stop until you have a period. I'm not sure you should stop the active pills for spotting, but if you get a full blown period in the middle of the pack, stopping the active pills will trigger the withdrawal bleed, and hopefully the next cycle your body will adjust.

I finally stopped bleeding a couple of days into the 2nd pack, but I spotted for two or three more days. I've got about a week and a half left on the 2nd pack, and for now everything is working perfectly. Other than the slightly irregular bleeding, I've had no side effects so far.

sk8nshelli · 04-12-2008, 12:11 PM

So I started yaz about a month and a half ago and I randomly got my period while on the active pills.. That was 11 days ago and I still have my period!!! And this isn't just spotting, this is full-blown!!!
-shelli