No period?

[brokenskylines]

I'm on my second month of taking Microgestin Fe 1/20 after about two years of taking Ortho TriCyclen Lo. My first month, I didn't really have my withdraw bleeding, just a day of light bleeding. This month, I haven't had anything at all, except for some brown discharge that I thought was blood. I even put in a tampon and nothing came out on it.  I

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[frolicnaked]

It could be that your body hasn't adjusted to the new pill yet, but it could also be that your body has adjusted -- and this is it. It's not terribly uncommon for folks to experience very light withdrawal bleeds, of the kind you describe here, on some brands of hormonal birth control. Anecdotally, Loestrin and its generics (including Microgestin) seem to have a higher-than-average incidence of this -- though that might be some "remembering bias" on my part.