Hello everyone! I've been on the birth control pill Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo for the past five or six months now, and in the last... I'd say 3 months, when I start taking my placebo pills, my period is mostly brown. There is some red in there, but I am used to only getting brown blood toward the end of my period, but this time it's during the entire thing. I have had no break-through bleeding at any point, and I start my period on the third placebo pill every month like clockwork. So, nothing unusual in the way of cycle, or amount of blood, just the color of it.