i'm 17 and have been on the combined pill for about 5-6 years now. despite the amount of time i've spent taking it, i still forget to all the time. i recently got diagnosed with adhd so that probably explains a lot of it lmao
this past week i've been incredibly busy, and have forgotten to take it for about 5 days in a row. on the fifth day, yesterday, i wiped and got the weird brown-ish colour that i've learnt warns my actual period would be starting in the next day or so. i took 2 pills that evening and didn't have any red/brown when i wiped the rest of the night, or at all today.
just now, i went to the bathroom and found bright red blood when i wiped. i don't have a clue when it started, but it must've been in the last hour or so. i remember last time this happened, i took three of my combined pills immediately after the bright red started and by the following day it had disappeared. i did the same thing today, and while i'm not sure if it will work again (last time i think i just got lucky), i wondered if anyone else had experienced a similar thing? getting bright red, fresh blood and then being able to stop it in the following day or two using birth control? (im guessing it's probably not advised to do what i did, but desperate times call for... impulsive measures?)