hey beccalee

i stopped the pill on 18/7! as i understand it, the 'period' you have that would have been your period on the pill had you continued with it is the withdrawal bleed. so - i stopped taking the pill on 18 july & if i'd continued on i would have had my period sometime in the following 7 days before the next pill packet. instead, because i stopped taking any of the pills altogether, this became the withdrawal bleed. am i making any sense here? lol.

so basically, that period & the withdrawal bleed are one in the same (i think!).

that means we now sit around waiting for the first real period, which should turn up around the 21st of this month for me (and a few days earlier for you), depending on whether my cycle has returned to normal. this is the time when it can take some time for your real period to return. hth!