Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding

This same thing happened to me last month! It was even twenty-three days long! I went to the doctor and they did a full blood test and said there wasn't anything abnormal... But they put my on a different birth control pill... The doctor didn't really help at all. She didn't even really say anything about it, which might be because I was there for more reasons than that... But I'm dying to know why this was happening to my body!

I'm experiencing the same thing. I have irregular periods and although I spotted 3 months ago, I haven't really had a normal 4-5 day period for nearly 6-7 months. I recently started taking blood pressure medication and 5 days after starting the regimen, I started bleeding lightly. It's been going on for 17 days now and although I know I ought to call the doctor, I am going in a week so am just waiting it out. It's exactly as you stated. Just enough to have you buy new panties if you're trusting your body to be done with the muss. It's barely enough to wear a liner during the day, unless I'm walking around. When I wipe, blood is there, but not necessarily on the liner. None throughout the night or when I'm lounging around. I'm not pregnant either and have never taken birth control. I have had a forced miscarriage (long story short, lost a lot of blood due to an accident on my part and ended up having to have the fetus removed). I was in pain. It felt like sharp menstrual cramps with harpoons trying to rip their way out of my ovaries >_< So, I highly doubt it's a miscarriage. I have lost a lot of weight because of a radical diet change and the medication and I am assuming it's my body's way to tell me, 'Hey, I still can function if you take care of me'. Then again, only a doctor can know for fact (or at least I hope so). I've never been to an OB-GYN other than for my incident and that was an emergency trip to the hospital, so I guess it's truly time to buck up and head on down to the health clinic to find out what's going on. I'd like to know what other people have experienced 'cause I am curious.

When I was 23, I went one year without a period. The following year, I had my period for ten months straight. (There were two breaks lasting no more than a week each during this time.) I wasn't taking birth control or any prescription medications. I went to the doctor to have blood work done, and everything came back normal. My doctor told me that stress and anxiety play important roles in women's cycles; however, I was diagnosed with "endometriosis", a very common health disorder that millions of women have. There are three solutions: An annual scraping of the uterus (some insurance providers do cover this procedure), having a child (which doesn't guarantee that it will stay away forever), or a hysterectomy. At least, those were the solutions five years ago; they may have discovered more since then.

When I was twelve or so this happened to me... turns out I had build up in my colon that was causing pressure on my uterus, resulting in constant light flow instead of heavy flow once a month. That may not be the typical issue, but bleeding for 23 days isn't either.