Does the birth control pill effect a womans period?
Yes. You don’t actually have a real period on birth control, since on the birth control hormones, your uterine lining doesn’t thicken. What you have during the 7 days you are taking the non-hormone pills is withdrawal bleeding. A substitute period, as it were. Your hormones drop that week so the uterus lining weakens and bleeds in response. Because you don’t have that thickened lining in your uterus, the bleeding will be substantially less then an actual period you have while not taking birth control pills. You might bleed 1/3 of what your regular period looks like. Obviously, on the pill this comes at a precise time of hormonal withdraw every month. And because there’s less bleeding and no thickened lining, there’s also a lot less cramping for most women too. You may experience some effects from the hormonal withdraw in relation to your mood – like PMS – but because it isn’t your normal cycle of hormones, any other PMS types of things you might usually have your cycle would be lessene
