Brownish discharge symptoms and conditions

I had switched from Ortho Tri Cyclen Lo to Trinessa, and Trinessa was making my OCD and anxiety go through the roof. I was thinking that Yaz would be the best choice for me. I decided to talk to my doctor, and she gave me a month trial to see if I liked it or not. I messed up my pills a little bit, so I was late starting. I took my last placebo pill and finally started. It's been a lot of very light bleeding, and brownish discharge. This is my main annoyance with the pill. My periods are normally mildly heaving and last about five to six days. This period has been very light, almost non existent, and I am currently on day two. I have also experienced some mood swings, fatigue, and anxiety.
I will be switching back to Ortho this week.

I just started my second pack of pill yesterday and I don't know if I like these pills. I am taking zoloft also for anxiety and my side effects are horrilble. I have had a hard time falling asleep (I literally have to lay in bed with my eyes closed for hours before falling asleep), I have terrible nigh sweats and wake up drenched in sweat, I sleep all day long, I have horrific nightmares which I never had before, and massive headaches.
I am not sure if I want to stay on the pill, I know it is only my second month and it takes a couple months to regulate but the side effects are ruining my social life. I feel like a zombie.
About the third week in my first pack i started spotting (or what I thought was spotting). It lasted 8 days, and my normal period was only 6 days. I bled just as much as on my normal period and has severe cramps as well. The only reason I got my 'period' was because I was about an hour off on taking my pill the previous day. It is pathetic.
Has anyone else had these symptoms? Or have any suggestions on better birth control pills.?
Oh and I am 18 years old.

I got Mirena March 3rd, 2009 - The first 3 weeks I had the bleeding and small clots along with HORRIBLE cramping that about took me into the ER on 3 different occasions. After that it seemed a little better, well, until recently that is. I have been experiencing dizziness, headaches, lightheadedness and fainting spell. These were the unexplained symptoms. Next I noticed horrible tingling in my arms and hands and sometimes even legs and feet. Not just a little tingling, I mean a lot, like the kind that wont let you lay down at night or sleep. I have been very nauseated and often feel like I'm about to get sick but nothing comes out. It's amassing that all of my symptoms started about 4 months ago, around the time Mirena was inserted and have just been escalating. I have not had a period since the initial bleeding occurred, but i have had the brownish discharge that others have mentioned as well about once a month. Also heard palpitations and chest pain has been occurring more often. I blame this on my asthma, which has got worse over the last 4 months also along with an increase use of my inhaler. Can this be related? My neck is always tense and I feel my joints are also becoming more inflamed. My vision is sometimes blurred and at my last eye exam last week my doctor had noted a "drastic" vision change and increased my lens strength within the last 6 months. The last symptom I can think about is how tired I have been. I have a very active 16 month old and it's exhausting trying to keep up with him and finishing nursing school full time. My mom did mention today how "moody" I have became over the last few months, maybe its stress related? Maybe it's all Mirena related? I would like to know more...wouldn't you?

Ive been taking this for almost 3 months im about to take my first placebo pills in 4 days. the first month was amazing, i had no problems and my boobs even got a little bigger which made me happy. Around the 2nd half of the 2nd month i started getting the brownish discharge and i have it every day...i don't have any problems with sex drive..and the discharge doesn't bother my husband because it seems to go away until a few hours after we have sex and it never seems to get heavier. Ive always been a little underweight no matter how much i scarfed down everyday.. and i gained a few pounds so i look much healthier. I used to take ortho-tricyclen lo and i had pretty bad mood swings and they seem to be about the same now..so maybe im just naturally a moody bitch sometimes. Im going to keep taking this for at least the rest of the year until i either balance out and get better or something gets worse and i cant take it anymore.

I had been using the Nuvaring for over 3-years and took it out for a couple months (simply due to an insurance issue). Anyway, I JUST started using it again-- because i LOVE the Nuvaring, it has been great... up to now. I put it back in about a week ago and I am now experiencing serious tiredness, nausea, diarrhea, a brownish discharge (that I feel like might be due to the excretion the ring already causes and is maybe mixed with some old blood (spotting?)). Has anyone had a similar experience? Might you share and tell me what the outcome was?... please tell me it gets better and goes away!

I started NuvaRIng 2 weeks ago. Once my period ended, I began having the brownish discharge and headaches. And still I have it, only it seems to be getting worse (because I'm ovulating?) I've cried for three days pretty much straight. And I am so tired. Does it go away after the first month? As birth control goes, it's pretty effective. Not even interested in sex right now.

I took Yasmin for a month to delay my period 'cause I was getting married around the time when my period was supposed to start. So I took it for a month so I can enjoy my honeymoon. Ever since I stopped taking Yasmin, my period has been unpredictable. The 1st month I have my pd for a week (before the pill my period usually lasts 5 days), 2nd and 3rd month my pd lasted 7 days for the first 4 days my pd was very heavy with some sort of clots. On the 4th month I had my period for 5 days, 6 days later I started to experience some brownish discharge sometimes mixed with mucous and blood. I have not been sexually active for 1 month and half, my husband is away. I am loosing clumps of hair every day and now I have to worry about this brownish discharge. And I had a normal pap test last year.......don't know what to do?

oh when I was on Yasmin; I felt horrible...........my body felt heavy all the time, low sex drive, nausea and when taking stairs I get out of breath.

thanks

Okay! I wrote once before about my side effects. Its been about two weeks and i just got my mirena removed today. I thought i'd keep you guys posted on my recovery. So far, the removal didn't not hurt a bit. He said take a deep breath and exhale and then he pulled it out! I have had a little more dizzy spells, and some brownish discharge. I already feel a bit more energetic and happy go lucky. I just hope i continue to recover. If anything else changes or i have the "crash" some are talking about, i'll be sure to let y'all know all about it!

I had mirena inserted in Feb 2008. I experienced the whole bleeding for 4 months and then it finally stopped. By stopped i mean no bleeding at all, just strange brownish discharge that would last for maybe two days. I was extremely irritable all of the time, and my sex drive was non-exsistant. I started to develop acne on my chest and back....something i have never experienced in my entire life. I have always had beautiful skin and now i have scars from my acne. I have a 2 year old son that i adore and i was always yelling at him, when normally i was very patient with him. My fiance was almost to the point of leaving me because of how mean i was. He also thought that i was cheating on him because i never wanted to have sex. I just had no desire for it, and when we did have sex it hurt! I also have gained 10 pounds since giving birth to my son. I normally don't gain weight very easily. I have been at the same weight almost my entire adult life and now i'm so much heavier! This was is for me!! Finally i called my doctor and scheduled an appointment to have mirena removed. I just had it removed yesterday, but i already feel so much happier. I will write again in a few weeks after i really feel the effects of having it removed. The removal was so much less painful than the insertion. I have a better attitude just in one day!

I have been reading everyone's side effects. I know everyone is different. I have not experienced hair loss, bad acne, or horrible mood swings. I HAVE, however, gained about 40 pounds since having Mirena inserted in February 2007. My periods stopped after about 4 months; I would have the brownish discharge everyone else has spoken about, plus feeling like I didn't smell good. It did help with my migraines, but here in the last 3 months, I have been getting a migraine once a month, with severe pain and vomiting AND I have started to try and have a period again. This past week I actually did bleed enough to be a nuisance to me. I have had so many problems with birth control I am at my wits end. I am 34, have one child and 2 stepchildren; my fiance and I don't plan on having any more children, so I am seriously considering getting this thing taken out and having my tubes tied. I enjoy the fact that I don't have to think about birth control, but the weight gain among other things is just too much.

I've been on Nuvaring for 2 weeks now, put it in on the first day of my period. I was surprised, because my period was a bit different then normal, after three days it was like I wasn't even bleeding anymore, as opposed to normally having six days of bleeding/spotting. Since my period stopped though, I've been having this brownish discharge. At first I thought that my period / spotting was just extended because my body was adjusting to the ring. Then this past week, I've also started to feel really exhausted and have been having these bad headaches all week. I just blamed it all on stress from college and the city buses giving me motion sickness and the headaches; which made sense to me because I started Nuvaring my 2nd week back at college and the buses gave me headaches before. But they've been worse now, and last for hours and hours. I've been emotional, but again I just threw that under the "stress" category. I'm totally not so sure any more, I could easily see it being just stress and motion-sickness induced headaches; that'd made sense for me. But after reading this site... I'm questioning. Though thankfully, my strange discharge seems to be stopping. Anyone else have the discharge and it eventually stop after a while; before going off the ring?

I'm 25, on birth control for the first time and I am just finishing up my first month on Loestrin Fe (I was on Yaz for one month before that). I am a bit concerned that I'm set to start a new pack tomorrow and have not had a period, not even spotting. I haven't really had any of the side effects some are describing of weight gain, chest pain, or hair loss. Maybe a bit more acne than usual, but I had expected that since this is only my second month on The Pill.

However reading your experiences I'm beginning to wonder about the mood swings. I have been EXTREMELY pissed off this month, anxious, and stressed, and in general a horrible person to be around. It's like I'm 15 again going through "that stage." It's awful, and I'm quite embarrassed by my childish behavior though I can't seem to help it. I've attributed it to other factors (which, who knows?) but reading your experiences makes me wonder if this pill isn't contributing. I'm definitely going to pay attention; if this continues for another month I'm going to change to another pill. Ugh.

I'm also wondering if I'm going to get my period back? I began taking birth control to control my normally heavy bleeding and severe cramps. Not to eliminate my period entirely!

I have only been on using the NuvaRing for about 2 weeks now but I am already having mood swings and extreme irritability. I go to school with all men because I am trying to get into the aviation field and the guys I go to school with have informed me that I have become a super bitch. I did not attribute it to the ring until reading the other post's here. I usually ignore all the immature comments that the guys make but lately I have found myself bickering with them on a regular basis.

I have only had sex 3 times since I have been on the ring but each time I had an intense burning sensation on the exterior of my vagina, almost like a yeast infection. The reason that I decided to google the side effects of the ring is because ever since me period has ended I have had a think brownish discharge and cramps every day. I have been wearing panty liners for almost two weeks and this definitely needs to stop. The number one reason I decided to try birth control was because of my severe menstrual cramps, heavy periods and mid month spotting. Now I have all month spotting, what the hell!

By far the worst experience I have had since using the ring happened yesterday. As I mentioned before my irritability has definitely increased. That was very evident yesterday when while at work, of all places, I attacked a girl and beat her up. I was arrested and charged with battery. Granted the girl and I have been having an escalating fued for the last couple of months. My mother was also involved and she was more pissed with my mother than with me. But the fight had in no way been physical until yesterday when she began to curse at my mother. I lost it and swung her into the wall by her hair, she never even saw it coming. I sort of blacked out and cant even remember all the events. This whole thing was definitely out of character for me, especially since I was at work. I am fortunate to work at an office where we are all close enough to be called a family. My boss stood by me and did not fire me. He even bailed me out of jail but that is definitely one hell of a side effect

I was on Jolessa too, but got switched to Quasense. I have gained thirteen pounds in the five weeks I have been on it, and for the last two weeks, I have really made sure I was eating right (nutritionist) and I work out five days per week and yet the scale keeps going up. ???????????? I feel like a cow. This pill has to go. Like someone else said, I would rather be thin and happy. I also get weird brownish discharge, and am moody. I also recently had a zit and I am way too old for that to start: I am headed for my 30s and have never had acne. I feel bloated so I just ditched most carbs and am eating according to South Beach. I am desperate to get back into my skinny pants. I was a size 4 or 6 before I gained weight on this pill. Now I had to buy some bigger stuff and I am unhappy with my appearance. I think I am going to switch to an IUD.

I don't know if seeing all these posts help me or scare the crap outta me even more (none the less very helpful), I have no insurance and really want to get my IUD removed. I had it inserted when my daughter was 8 weeks old that was about 11 months ago. I have had nothing but problems, severe cramping, nausea, periods that last a whole month, one month it will be icky brownish discharge with a lil blood here and there, I will stop for about 2 weeks and get it again this time lasting about 3 weeks then i will go about 6 weeks and have it again this time with severe cramping and bleeding for a whole month straight. then i may not have it again for 6 weeks etc... I have really nasty blood clots that look very fleshy. I also have had very thick yellowish stinky discharge everyday i don't have my period ( I have NEVER smelt this bad) I feel like im losing my mind Im so absent minded i forget the simplest things, my arms and legs go numb and tingly, my hair is falling out in clumps, im extremely moody and very impatient. and the tiredness is really starting to bother me, no matter how much i try to stay awake its almost impossible, i literally need to take a nap every 3 hours it seems like just to function...I feel like im falling apart. Has anyone else had a lot of these symptoms? And what should I do about getting it taken out....I don't qualify for Medicaid so I was wondering if i should just go into the hospital the next time the pain gets bad and see if they will remove it any advice will be helpful! And good luck to anyone else going through problems with this IUD.

Hello everyone! Well I started with Loestrin 24 January 2008. I have previously used the ortho evra patch & the NuvaRing. I decided to try bc in the first place, because I had extreme periods lasting more than 9 days sometimes 13 days every two weeks. I tried to stay away from pills in general mostly because I have a tendency to forget to take them. Once the other methods failed to control my periods, I decided to to try the pill. The first month I got that really weird brownish discharge type period then a couple of weeks later, during the white pills I got very heavy spotting to a light period for almost a week. then the normal period. After that my periods are amazing! a few days, very light & hardly any cramping. that only lasted a couple of months. Now I have very ugly acne on my face, back and chest. I have gained about 10 lbs & I am always crying! I found myself just running home to lay down just to get away from people... I am going to finish this trail & discontinue the pill. Hopefully my heavy irregular periods don't start up again right away.

I LOVE NUVARING!!! I've been using it for over a year, usually keeping it in for a month then replacing it with a new one to avoid having a period. I sometimes have some spotting at the end of the month; then I just take out the ring and have a full period and put in a new ring one week later. I have none of the problems with mood swings that others have posted - on the contrary, I no longer have PMS symptoms.

However, during those rare menstrual periods, I sometimes pass a few thumbprint-sized pieces of an unusual MEMBRANOUS BROWN TISSUE-LIKE SUBSTANCE (cap'd to draw attention). No other symptoms.

Has anyone else experienced this? My nurse practitioner hasn't had any other patients mention it and she can't think of what it could be (uterine lining??).

I just wanted to give an alternative perspective to the comments on this board.

I've been on Yaz for two months, and I'm very happy with it. The first week or so wasn't great: weird muscle aches, fatigue, lightheadedness occasionally. I had light brownish discharge/spotting for about a week. The second week I had some striking headaches, and over the first two weeks I lost 10 pounds (water weight).

But since then it's been smooth sailing. My period came exactly on time and lasted about 2.5 days. I no longer have any symptoms besides breast tenderness (akin to what my breasts felt like before my period, before).

So - keep in mind when you're reading these negative comments that usually the happy folks don't feel the need to post!

Ok well I'm 16 and I've been on Loestrin for almost a month now and its been ok so far but the only thing like everyone else has been saying is that brownish discharge which is really irritating but other that I've been ok but in time we will see...good luck everyone!!

I have been on LoEstrin24 for over a year and a half. For the first year, I had no side effects. After starting a very competitive graduate program this fall, I began having panic attacks, anxiety, hot flashes and am sweating constantly during the first week of a new pill pack. I believe that the stress have exacerbated the potential side effects of the pills and only now am I seeing the downside of this method. I was previously on Depo Provera for 7 years and then tried the patch for 1 year (HATED it). I've found that controlling my stress levels has helped but not completely ameliorated the side effects. Also, as an FYI for those who are worried about the brownish discharge - I still have it after 18 months on this pill.

Wow! Very interesting! I was thinking the same thing about this stupid pill! My first 3 months were very spotty, my second pack was better, but then I decided to skip the non hormonal pills and start the third pack right away. I've basically been on the rag since 12/12/07! This is 02/07/08, and I have had this brownish discharge for about 3 weeks! What the hell! I'm pissed because I'm 36 and I'm taking it to normalize my hormones, which have been messing me up the older I get!

Wow! I wasn't sure I was really right to be suspicious of this ring, but I'm convinced now! I have only been on the ring for 2 weeks. My back broke out and I have a brownish discharge and slight itch. I can't deal with that. My doctor suggested trying it another month and if things don't improve we'll go to something different, but these stories have me thinking I should cut my losses and get out ahead of anymore symptoms.

Wow am I glad I found this! I decided to check out NuvaRing side effects because I suddenly have a brownish discharge and oder I can not wash away. I've been using it about six months now, this began a few weeks ago. But after reading the other postings it answers a lot of questions for me! About 3 months ago I developed an awful pain in my lower abdomen (left side) went through a bunch of test which found nothing! Then it after over a month of suffering, it's just stopped! I never even considered the problem could be the NuvaRing but now I do. I'll be calling my GYN on Monday!

For those of you asking about live after having the Mirena removed, I can happily report that mine has been out almost 2 months and MOST of my page-long list of side effects have gone.

The first and most noticable one was that my breast tenderness was gone and they retruned quickly to their normal size. Sex drive almost immediately started to return to normal and the pain during sex is GONE! Ditto for the joint pain Depression, mood swings, all better. Period? After having constant spotting for 17 months (a brownish discharge most of the time), I was never so glad to see a bright red, normal period. Of course it was heavier, but I was actually relieved, and it actually had a real beginning and end. It even snuck up on me, as I didn't seem to experience any PMS symptoms before it started (much to the relief of my husband). The only two things that remain is I still seem to be retaining some water in my hands, face, and feet, I haven't gained any more weight, but the weight I gained on Mirena hasn't come off easily, either. And, for the time being, it seems that my acne has gotten a bit worse! Hoping its the last of the hormones rearing their ugly heads. So, chin up, there is hope!

i had mirena inserted in jan 07...all was good thereafter spotting for a couple months...and when i finally got a "normal bleeding" i felt like i was in the bathroom every 20 minutes...there were times when i felt like i didn't deserve my family because i was so mean to them..i constantly pick on my husband just to see how mad i can get him..this is not me at all..i used to love being with him and just hanging out with the kids, but now i feel like i always wanna be away from them..I HATE THIS FEELING...there have been times when i felt dizzy..I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE BUT I FEEL A LIL BETTER KNOWING THAT IM NOT THE ONLY ONE GOING THRU THIS...I'M GETTIN ON THE PHONE RIGHT NOW AND MAKING MY APPT TO TAKE THIS CRAP OUT! THANKS TO ALL U WHO EXPRESS THE REALITY OF THIS DAMN THING!!