On pill, late period, brown discharge. Help?

[omfgBRAT]

I am 17. This is my 3rd month on birth control. I am sexually active with my boyfriend. We both have been tested and we are free of any STDs. I'm on Loestrin 24. My first month I had a few days of breakthrough bleeding but my period was on time. The 2nd month I had no breakthrough bleeding and everything was on time perfectly. Now this month, I've taken all of my pills on time except one, which I was two hours late. About two weeks to a week ago, in the middle of the package of pills, I had a week of brown discharge. It was light and light brown at first, but it got darker, heavier, and lasted a week. There was some blood too. Now it's time for my period to start. It should have started yesterday, but it hasn't. I'm on the four brown pills and mine has always started on the first one. I know I still have three more brown pills to take before I start my new package. Is this normal since this is only my 3rd month or could the brown discharge be a period or thrown my period off? Help?

[gheck3]

yeah... I was taking this for about 6 months and had the same problem.  except I had lots of breakthrough bleeding... except for the 5th month.  I wish I knew why.. it scared me so I switched birth control and am now having worse problems with it...so yeah, good luck (oh, I'm 24)

[peanut601]

ive been on them pills for a month i think nd i stop taken them cuz i think im pregnant.. so i missed two days already nd i started bleeding brown..nd i wanted to kno if this has any thing to do with the pills or being pregnant..oh nd me nd my bf had sex the day i missed a pill..can anybody help??

[Pcogale]

In your first post you said you were 2 hours late with your pill.  That's okay.  You have a certain window in which to take it which I think is 12 hours for a combined pill (of which loestrin is).

But in your next post you said you missed a pill.  If it's just the one white pill then that's okay.  If you've missed two in week 1 or 2 then you may have a problem but hopefully not.

It's likely what you've had is breakthrough bleeding, especially with the missed/late pills.

Do a pregnancy test.  If it's negative you may want to follow it up with a blood test just in case it's too early to test positive on a urine test.