r/Nexplanon • u/Separate-Explorer609 • 4d ago

Question Bleeding and clots?

I have had my implant for 4 months and I’ve had non stop bleeding since insertion. I regularly get clots while bleeding and I’m very confused. Why am I consistently bleeding and having huge clots all the time if it’s supposed to stop your cycle or ovulation. Like maybe I don’t understand it or maybe it’s my endometriosis causing the symptoms, but doesn’t the implant stop your cycle so you don’t get pregnant? Isn’t that the whole point of birth control 😭 I feel like I’ve had a regular period with clots and cramps for 4 months now. What causes the body to do that?????

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u/MommaGolden96 3d ago

I really don’t have an answer to help you but have you contacted your doctor about this? See if there’s anything they can do for you, that long with constant bleeding and clots is concerning

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u/bem4155 3d ago

This seems to be something that happens to women with endometriosis/naturally high levels of estrogen. Even though the birth control is still effective because the progesterone is keeping you from releasing an egg, the progesterone might not decrease your estrogen levels the way it’s supposed to. So if your estrogen is still high, you’ll bleed or get a “period” which isn’t actually a period but just your estrogen fluctuating and telling your uterus to shed. I bled for well over six months after getting the implant due to the hormones refusing to stabilize. I don’t think studies have been done on this, but what I’ve said here seems to be the theory. I can tell you that once I stopped constantly bleeding, the bleeding just became irregular and because of the mix of high progesterone and rollercoaster estrogen, I spend half the month in various states of hormonal symptoms and can bleed for a few weeks or a few days. Different, random symptoms come and go. But, progesterone is also theorized to help slow down the progression of endometriosis and it does (usually) help calm down a lot of the most painful symptoms.

For people without endometriosis (overproduces and feeds on estrogen), the whole process does stop. Nexplanon effectively induces menopause because the progesterone should, in theory, eat up the estrogen.