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I’ve lost my period.

It’s due to the Implanon which has been happily residing in my left arm for the past three and a half months. For the first month and a half, I had pretty much non-stop spotting. It was never heavy bleeding necessitating a tampon change every hour. In fact, the bleeding was so light that I could generally get away without using a tampon and without using a sanitary pad – simply by going to the toilet every couple of hours to pee, I could clean the menstrual blood from myself sufficiently.

In the past few months though, the spotting has pretty much stopped altogether, and I’m yet to have a proper period. My vagina has been menstrual blood free, although I still seem to go through monthly cycles of emotional irrationality and skin breakouts. Despite these negatives however, I still consider myself lucky enough to have fallen into the small percentage of women who become menstruation-free upon getting the Implanon. I’m certainly not complaining – not bleeding from the vagina can only be a good thing!

Though now that I think about it, I should perhaps do a home pregnancy test to make sure that it’s actually an effective Implanon that’s causing my lack of menstruation, rather than unexpected Dylan spawn in my belly.