"i am towards the end of my third month on lo loestrin fe and i&#039;m wearing a pad for spotting half the month still. it tends to start the second week of pills in the pack and last about a week, then it goes away and comes back about 4 days before the white pills.  i&#039;m not really sure when the spotting stops and the period begins.  the bleeding is mostly brownish.  i have gained close to 15 pounds in the last three months, which is depressing, and i seem to be more moody than i used to be.  i was hoping that the breakthrough bleeding would have decreased by now, but i have been keeping track on a calendar and it has not.  one good thing is that i do not have the weekly migraines that i had on my old birth control (yaz)."