Can the pill stop your period?

[Fruit Tingles]

I was waiting for my period to arrive so I could start taking the pill.

My period arrived on Sunday morning at 1am, and I started the pill on Monday morning. By Tuesday my period had completely stopped.

It was a weird period:

• It was shorter. My period usually goes for a week, this time it only went for 2 days, if that.
• It was lighter. It wasn't really a flow at all, it was just random spotting.
• It wasnt fresh blood, the spotting was mainly brown, with some pink spotting, but mainly brown. My periods are usually quite heavy for the first 3 days.
• There was absolutely no pain or cramping, usually I have horrible pain.
• I dont think that the pill can stop your period once it has started, and I wasn't even on the pill long enough for it to have an effect, right?

So what could be going on? This is not notmal for me, I usually only spot at the end of my period, never any other time.

I was on the pill as a teen from the age of 14 to the age of 17, same pill (monofeme) and this has NEVER happened to me.

[Fruit Tingles]

*Edited original post to add more info*

[AliBaby]

In my experience, if you take the hormonal pills during your period once it has started then it will only prolong your period and make the brown spotting continue for normal then longer. That may just be me though. Did you take the sugar pills when your period was around?

[Fruit Tingles]

No because I was only starting the pill, so started on the active pills as it says to in the leaflet.
When I was on it as a teen it made no difference to my period what so ever, which is why I am a bit concerned.

I'll do a test in a few days time, in case this is implantation bleeding.

[AliBaby]

I think that is where the problem is. If you have the hormonal pills during your period, it wont stop your period once its started. Because you had only had your period for one day when you started the hormonals, the period has to continue and finish. The hormonal pills will just makes it lighter and more of that brownish blood than red blood.

In the past when I have gone back on the pill, my doctor has always told me to get back on it, start the 1st of the hormonal pills on the day after my period finishes.

Everyone's bodies are different though so who knows?

[ss_storm]

I'm on a different pill, but I know my body reacted to it differently when I went back on it after having DD. It might just be that your body is going to react differently to it than it did when you were a teen?

[~clover~]

Back when I took the pill (years ago) I was told to start on the sugar pills on the first day of AF. (I was on monofeme as well & they had days labeled I think.) I always started on the day of the week in the sugar ones.
I think from memory it slowed/stopped mine, but cen't remember. Sorry. I don't think I ever did it that way.

[Purple Penguin]

Back when I took the pill (years ago) I was told to start on the sugar pills on the first day of AF. (I was on monofeme as well & they had days labeled I think.) I always started on the day of the week in the sugar ones.
I think from memory it slowed/stopped mine, but cen't remember. Sorry. I don't think I ever did it that way.

I was told to start with the sugar pills when AF started as well.

[Maruschke]

I was also taught to start the active pills at the end of the first period, not the start.

[Fruit Tingles]

I've read the instructions millions of times now, so has df, and it definately says that when starting it for the first time to take the white pills in the grey shaded area on the first day of your period.
I am doing it right, besides I'm not asking if I'm doing it right, I'm asking if the pill can stop your period..
The answer is no, it can't.