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breakthough followed by brown spotting as period

i have been on  the pill for three months and last active week before my period i experience breakthough bleeding. the sugar pill week when i expected to get my period i just had brown spotting. is this normal? some things that may be effecting it are stress, diet changes, and activity changes. what could this all mean?
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I've been there when I was around your age. The brown spotting is your period... it's old blood that has been in you and it's coming out. Through this ... you might be having a short period. Were you taking your BC pills every day around the same time? What are your diet and activity changes?
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yes i always take them within 5 minutes of eachother, and i was writing finals so i was fairly lazy while studying then when i started writing them i became substantially more active and diet just not eating the same amount as usual
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