When will you get your period after stopping the birth control pill?

Answer 1

When you stop taking Birth Control pills you will experience a withdrawal bleed, just like you would on your placebo or pill-free week. As usual, that might look like:

• Spotting of blood in underwear.
• Brown vaginal discharge.
• Brown blood when you wipe or in underwear.
• Normal period bleeding.
• Light vaginal bleeding.
• Red or pinkish colored blood in underwear when you wipe.

Your regular period may arrive 4 to 6 weeks after the withdrawal bleeding. Once you're off the pill, your periods are likely to return to the same pattern before you were on the pill; if your periods were irregular before, they are likely to be irregular after stopping the pill.

If you go more than three months without a period, and are not on hormonal birth control, see your health care provider for advice.