Question: Dear Ask The Doctor:
I took bc pill chateal for a while and decided to stop them bc i was not sexually active. I was off for a couple od months and started to be sexually active again. A week later i decided to start them again. This time around i did not do well taking them on time. there were several days I was a couple of hours late taking the, and two days I missed it but took it in the morning. Those days were not consecutively, During this time my boyfriend and i were having a very active sex life. Never with protection. Pull out method only. I noticed a change in my mood. I got depressed and had mood changes very easily. I also started having nausea and headaches. I dis none of this when on these pills before. I decided to stop taking the pill to see if that was the cause. The day i noticed my emotions back to normal...that evening i noticed some darker blood spotting. The next day it got little heavier and i had cramps as well as bad pain going through my colon and into my lower back. By the next evening the blood got even heavier. I bled through tampons. In the middle of the night i woke up with severe cramps. Similar to contractions. I just tries to sleep through it. By the time i got to work that morning the heavy blood and cramps started again. When i went into bathroom to clean up i passed a pretty good sized clot. It was mostly tissue covered in blood and not a solid blood mass. Which is something I've never done. After that occurred the pain died down and didn't come back. The bleeding slowed and went away over the next day or so. Is this something from the pill? I talked to my friend about it and she said it sounded like what happened with her when she miscarried. Could they be what happened? I've had no symptoms since then so im not sure what to do. On top of taking the pills during this time I also had drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes. Also I have recently gone through several procedures for pre cervical cancer if that could play a part. I also have a picture of clot i passed if that needs to be looked at. Thanks.