I’m on my 5th day of breakthrough bleeding and I was just wondering how long it could last and what I should do.

there’s no way to know how long it will last and you’ll just have to wait it out.

Any bleeding during your active pills is break through bleeding. Break through bleeding is a side effect of birth control. Break through bleeding is completely normal. Break through bleeding can occur at anytime for any length of time no matter how long you have been on your brand. Break through bleeding can be any flow type from light spotting to heavy bleeding. Break through bleeding can last seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months. There is no way to stop break through bleeding. There’s no way to tell when it is going to stop. You just have to wait it out.

Why can you get breakthrough bleeding?

@Nicky28765 it’s a side effect of birth control and it’s listed in your pamphlet.

@Nicky28765 If you are still new to the brand your body could be adjusting. Or if you are on the pill and skip your break week pills sometimes that triggers break through bleeding. Break through bleeding is just a normal side effect of the pill in general. It’s doesn’t matter how long you’ve been on your brand you can still experience break through bleeding.