Thread: Contraception inconvieninces!!

URGH!!!!
What a hassel I am having!! I'm sitting here with a sore arm after having the implant taken out ( talk about slice and dice!! there was a lot of blood!) And now I am trying ANOTHER pill. Everything seems to make me put weight on or messes up my cycle completely or gives me a million spots. But I suppose its better then a baby!!!

Anyone else have my trouble or is my body just a perdiciment on itself lol!!
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Sometimes it's SOOOOOOOO nice to be male! Our plumbing is much simpler!

Go look into getting and IUD.
I had nothing but trouble with the pill.
I tried the injection and the implant and both sent me loopy.

So far so good with the IUD

Uncomfy getting it put in and i bled for a month after, but no worse than what happened with the injection.

I'm now happy healthy and sane. Definitely better than messing with hormones! and 45% of married women of child bearing age in china can't be wrong. UK and US are the only place where this isn't used as the recommended form of contraceptive.

Ugh, hormones. What's wrong with barrier methods? Bloody government trying to get everyone onto hormones when they don't need to, gets right on my wick!

Originally Posted by Fleur du Mal

Ugh, hormones. What's wrong with barrier methods? Bloody government trying to get everyone onto hormones when they don't need to, gets right on my wick!

On a serious point (for once!) I have to agree - hormones are enormously potent things and slurping them down when a bit of rubber can do the job without running the risk of making a mess of your organs...

I have had a huge amount of trouble with this matter and as it stand I have the IUD which I once referred to as the USB lol. I have an awful spot problem but understand there are treatments I can get whilst on this. When I first got the IUD I remember the pains being so bad I would pass out, I have some how managed to gain a stone but I am not sure if is anything to do with my contraception.

I must admit it had been difficult but then again its better than getting myself into a situation where I would not wish to be.

Originally Posted by evildrneil

On a serious point (for once!) I have to agree - hormones are enormously potent things and slurping them down when a bit of rubber can do the job without running the risk of making a mess of your organs...

... doesn't quite seem worth it, does it?

What bugs me is that I've been on numerous types of hormonal contraception, and they don't bother fully explaining the side effects to you when they prescribe. You get a quick run down and told that there's a slight chance you might get one or two. And then when you suffer them you speak to other women and find out that they're not as rare as you've been told >_<

I hate using different contraceptives. I have tried (and really dont want) the implant. I cant have an IUD as i have a small tumour/polip (Doctor says different things each time) and its positioned so that an IUD wouldnt fit or work to its full potential...but that tumour/polip needs a form of hormone treatment, (as its supposedly formed as i have high levels of testosterone..i have a similar problem to women who have PCOS) so recently i have been on the pill, and it has been fantastic, its helping both problems quite well. I believe im one of the lucky few who dont get any of the side effects, which i am glad.

Only problem is remembering to take it everday.

I had one of the non-hormonal IUDs for a while (not even sure whether you can get the hormone-releasing kind here?) but it kicked the crap out of me! Worst cramps of life, it's hard to keep a job if you can't get out of bed for 3 or 4 days every month. I got that removed (shudder to think of how it went, too, arg) after about a year and now I'm on the pill. Thankfully no side effects to report, other than clearer skin and bigger breasts? Surely these are not bad things. Hah! I must be the only person to have all-positive side effects.
It is a dilemma though, and I must admit I've just taken the easy way out on this one. I don't *like* the thought of all these hormones... yet still I take them.

I hear you! I've been thinking a LOT about contraception lately. Like you I have friends who had to have their implant removed. One ballooned from a size 10-12 to a large 14 in 6 months and was constantly angry and depressed and had had enough basically. That put me off ever wanting to try it!

I was on the microgynon pill for five years and in that time gained 3 stone. The whole time my blood pressure was described as being "borderline high", but I have anxiety and am always stressed as well as having a bit of the white-coat-syndrome. I never came off the pill even when not seeing anyone because my periods are heavy and agony without it, to the point where I have to stay home in bed and I like to think I have a high pain tolerance! The pill means they are much less painful, I don't need painkillers even.

Now I am at risk of not being able to get an operation in April because at my pre-op assessment last week the blood pressure had shot up. I had to go to the doctor today to try and fix it in time for the op, and my b.p. was back down to being borderline again. They still decided to change my pill to progesterone only (Cerazette) because there was no other reason why my b.p. would be so high, usually weight and smoking are factors but these aren't relevant to my case! I'm a bit worried because I am rubbish at remembering to take any of my medication and you don't get the 12 hour window with POPs if you forget!

I was thinking of other ways of er...contracepting. I don't want any kids, so the long term methods are maybe ideal, and I know there is a drive to reduce NHS costs by encouraging people to go for these. I just don't want to use anything that will make periods worse or result in cramping or irregular/heavy bleeding eg. the IUD. Anyone have any ideas? I like the idea of sterilisation actually but I'm not sure if that still gives you periods! Do not want and do not need!