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Just curious for all those using spiro, the pill or both.

I got off the pill last year and my periods were pretty regular. Started spiro in February and my first period after that was over a week late. In the second month my period started just a few days late, and then I started the pill (Yaz), right at the time I upped the spiro dosage to 100mg.

April - Mid May: Was on Yaz for one full pack and one half pack (this pill made me so nauseous and weak I stopped using it in mid pack, which I know if not the best thing to do but I was vommiting almost every morning on it).

July: Even though I stopped the pill mid pack, my period didn't come until it was supposed to, two weeks later. Had a normal period again the next month, but my doc insisted I get back on the pill, so I chose trisprintec, as I had taken it for 10 years in the past and it was good to my skin.

July - Sept: I was on trisprintec for 3 months, during which I had a normal period at the end of the first pack, and at the end of the second pack I went directly into the third pack in order to skip my period because it was the week I was on vacation. At the end of the two continuous packs, I got off the pill (again, due to side effects).

End of Sept: Upon stopping the trisprintec after taking two packs in a row with no break my period was a little late and very short and light.

October: No period at all and no spotting, etc.

November: On Nov 1st, Reduced Spiro dosage from 100mg to 50 mg to start weaning off it. I had one day of extremely light, brownish bleeding exactly a week later, Nov 7th. Nothing since then, just tons of bloating (the gassy kind, not just the water weight kind), but no cramps, no mood swings or other PMS-type symptoms either. I would be thrilled about this if I knew one day it wasn't all going to reverse or something.

I've read that getting off the pill can cause the cycle to stop for a while. Does anyone have any with experience with not getting a period either on the pill or on spiro or both? I thought spiro without the pill would make my periods either heavier or closer together or something, but they seem to have stopped altogether. Any idea when I can expect a regular period again?