Started birth control in October, two days into the sugar pills but no period yet.

Give your doctor's office a call and ask to speak to that nurse. Ask her if your period should start on the first day of taking the inactive pills or if it is normal to have variable start dates during the first few months of being on the pill.

I don't know for certain if irregular periods are normal during the first months and then regulate once your body adjust. I don't want to give you incorrect information or advise you incorrectly.

Your doctor's nurse is more familiar with the birth control pills that have been prescribed.

Maryann

My family doctors. I remember the nurse saying, when I went in early November for nausea, that eventually my periods should level out to either start the first day of the sugar pills or the third day after I start the sugar pills, so that I would end up with a four to five day period, but she didn't say anything about them not becoming regular for a few months. Maybe it was implied? And she definitely didn't say that there would be no symptoms of a period at all while taking it. But I'm certainly not pregnant without sex, so it's odd how my period is late even though I'm on the pills.

Who prescribed the birth control pills for you?

Is it anything to do with the fact that this is only my second period while on birth control, possibly? I'm only 18, and I don't have a gynecologist yet. I do feel slight pains, but I don't really understand why my period hasn't started yet this month.

I don't know why you are responding to your birth control pills differently this month compared to last month. Give your gynecologist a call. He or she knows what prescription of birth control you are taking, knows your medical history and can best answer your question.

Maryann