According to your description you are probably experiencing prolonged menstruation or menorrhagia. Menorrhagia can be a side effect of using birth control pills. Cerazette can cause period changes like prolonged period (menorrhagia), irregular bleeding (metrorrhagia) or lack of the period (amenorrhea). If your menorrhagia is due to birth control pills that is functional menorrhagia because it is due to hormonal disturbances in the axis hypothalamus-pituitary-ovaries. Menorrhagia can be also due to organic reasons like presence of infection, tumor, endometriosis, injury, etc. It is very important to rule out or confirm these organic reasons for menorrhagia. For this, you need several diagnostic procedures like: vaginal examination, PAP-test, microbiological smear, ultrasound scan. An endometrial biopsy or curettage may be required later.
If all possible organic reasons for your problem are excluded then you may need to change the type of birth control pills.
You may want to consult your gynecologist about this.
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