[Tippiechick]

Craig, ANY woman can have hormonal issues. Hormones fluctuate throughout a woman's life. They can change from month to month. When you take birth control pills, you are taking hormone pills -- literally. So, if you are increasing the amounts of hormones in your body to fool your body into thinking it no longer needs to ovulate, you often have problems. Women have to switch types of pills, strengths of pills, even different methods of getting the hormones into their bodies. (Some other methods are NuvaRing, Depo shots, BC patch, etc.)

Breakthrough bleeding is any bleeding or spotting at any other time of the month other than a woman's actual time of the month.