Should I test or is it my period coming? My period is due in a week and I'm having some crazy things going on. I'm on the pill and Monday I start my sugar pills. Well the past couple of weeks I have been cramping, spotting, smelling weird stuff. Like Tuesday I went for a walk and I smelled cleaning stuff while walking down the road. I have been having lower back pain. Well today I started cramping again, feeling sick and that comes in random spurts and have been really thirsty. I have drank so much today it isn't even funny. I'm surprised I haven't drowned myself yet. I have been taking my birth control pills every night but not at the same time.