Irregular periods; bleeding that lasts more than 8 days. For example, my most recent "period" lasted 8 days! I had 4 days of no bleeding, then began bleeding regularly for the next 3 days (and still bleeding). I began using Jolivette to help control my periods due to multiple fibroids but so far I've been bleeding more often than not. I'm not sure if I need to continue taking it for the side effects to lessen, but I'm seriously considering stopping it. I can't take anything with estrogen so my options are very limited.