What should I do if I bleed a week after taking birth control pills?

The main purpose of birth control pills is to prevent pregnancy, and this drug is not unfamiliar to young women. Of course, contraceptives can also cause certain harm to women's bodies, so you must consult in detail during the process of taking them to avoid accidents. In daily life, some women experience vaginal bleeding after taking contraceptive pills. What should they do?

Generally speaking, various combined contraceptives, as long as they are taken correctly, rarely cause irregular vaginal bleeding. On the contrary, the menstrual cycle is more regular, the bleeding time is shorter, and the amount of bleeding is less than those who do not take the medicine. However, some women who use birth control pills may experience a small amount of vaginal bleeding while taking the pill. There are two reasons for this side effect:

First, due to missed doses, late doses, wrong medication methods, damp tablets, peeling of the sugar coating, etc., the amount of medicine in the body is insufficient and part of the endometrium falls off;

The second reason is that due to different physical conditions of different people, the imbalance of hormone levels in the body after taking the medicine causes bleeding.

The preventive measures are:

1. For those with a small amount of bleeding, take 1 tablet of ethinyl estradiol (0.005 mg) every night, and take it together with the contraceptive pill until the 22nd day, then stop taking it;

2. For those with slightly more bleeding, take 2 tablets of ethinyl estradiol (0.01 mg) every night, together with contraceptive pills, until the 22nd day, then stop taking the medicine;

3. When the amount of bleeding is the same as menstrual flow, or the bleeding time is close to the menstrual period, you can stop taking the medicine and treat this bleeding as menstruation. Start taking the medicine again on the fifth day of bleeding;

4. If you do not want to use the method of taking ethinyl estradiol to prevent bleeding, you can change the medicine. That is, those who originally took medicine No. 1 and had bleeding can take medicine No. 2 instead, and those who originally took medicine No. 2 and had bleeding can take medicine No. 1 instead. However, you must complete a cycle of 22 days of medication before you can switch.

5. Among women who use implants and progesterone acetate contraceptive injections, 20-30% often experience irregular vaginal bleeding, but this will gradually improve as the period of use increases. If the bleeding is unbearable, you can stop the bleeding by stopping the medication or adding estrogen;

6. Master the correct method of taking medicine, develop the habit of taking medicine on time, and properly store medicine. If the tablets are found to be damp, the sugar coating is worn or cracked, they should not be taken.