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We understand your worries especially with the symptoms of brown discharge. Taking birth control pills can lead to a range of side effects such as brown vaginal discharge. It is very common to have brown discharge while on birth control pills. For your information, there are various causes of brown discharge while on birth control pills.

Causes of Brown Discharge While on Birth Control Pills:

• Old blood: Brown discharge can sometimes be the remnants of old blood that could not pass the last time you had periods.
• Spotting : If a woman is on birth control pills, in the initial 6 months of taking birth control pills, her body will try to adjust to the hormones in the pills but a consequence of this is spotting or breakthrough bleeding that is brown in colour.
• Low Dose of Birth Control Pills: In some cases, brown discharge is basically spotting which is a result of very low levels of hormones present in the birth control pills.
• Missed Pills : Birth control pills work effectively only if they are taken at the same time each day.
• Fibroids
• Implantation: If you are on birth control pills but still ovulating, you may get pregnant. In this case, the cause of the brown discharge is implantation bleeding.
• Infections

You might consult a doctor if your brown discharge become a serious problems:

• foul or fishy odour
• redness in the vaginal area
• swelling and soreness
• pain and cramps in the abdomen
• fever
• symptoms similar to flu

With this symptoms, your doctor might suggest you to change to other choice of birth control method.

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