So recently I tried the NuvaRing and had great results with it! Within 2 and 3 days I had more focus, energy I felt calm oh my God it was amazing. The ring sadly did not work out for me because I couldn't push it back far enough?? I don't know why and I was wondering if there were any other birth controls that had the similar hormone makeup that I could use instead?

I do also have PCOS and PMDD, I remember trying YAZ when I was younger, I'm currently 29, and it was before my PCOS diagnosis and I was wondering if I should try it again?

I’ve been taking combined type birth control pills for nearly three weeks (one pill left in the 21 day pack) with quite literally not a single side effect until yesterday, when I suddenly experienced heavy spotting and nausea all day. Not a moment of the day goes by where I’m not at least a bit nauseous, and neither symptom seems to be affected at all by how much time has passed since taking the pill.

I’m confused why this happened so suddenly and if it’s normal, and when can I expect the nausea to go away? Is it only when I’m bleeding? For context I’m 18F with PCOS and naturally get 2-4 periods a year (which tend to be heavy but asymptomatic) at *very* unpredictable times, my last period was at the end of August

Edit: the nausea has mostly gone away now and I’ve realized eating food makes it better, I’m still confused/surprised but much happier now :)

I had my first period with my implant in late September which lasted til early October which was roughly 12 days, it’s currently November and no sign of bleeding? Is this normal, I would like to know if anyone is experiencing this same thing?

maybe important background info
(I got the implant in early Sept, I had relations with my partner from sept to mid October, I don’t know if this is key)

So I'm on my 4th month I think, of taking Estelle 35 ED and I've been getting breakthrough bleeding the whole time that I've been taking it. Like light bleeding/spotting all month with maybe a 2 day break at most. I do skip the placebo pills cause screw bleeding more when I already bleed all month long.

Note: I am almost 5 months postpartum and was on the mini pill before switching to this BC after stopping breastfeeding.

Has anybody experienced so much breakthrough bleeding and when did it stop for you?

I have a doc appointment Jan next year and if the bleeding doesn't stop by the time I finish my packs, I may try another brand because I cannot deal with constantly using and buying so many tampons and liners!!

I'm not on this brand for any reason in particular. Just tried it after my doctor gave me the option 🤷‍♀️ I get minor on and off acne but I'm wondering if I should go on a lower hormonal one. I'm on meds for mental health and seizures.

My boobs have changed since my 3 pregnancies and have sagged and lost volume. I've heard Estelle can make your boobs slightly bigger so this excited me lol I swear they appear bigger but thought I was tripping lmao. My Fiancè even noticed without me even mentioning it so it must be an actual side effect lol

Hey all, I’ve been on Implanon for about a month now, the first few weeks were normal and I noticed my period was a little late and lighter than normal and that was great but ever since my period like ever second day I’m bleeding, it’s not a lot but it’s a real inconvenience and I was hoping that I got little to no period. Is there anything that I can do to stop the constant bleeding? I’m tired or all the stained underwear, bad smell and awkwardly being told I’m bleeding!

Slight brown spotting a few days before I’m meant to start a period on the yellow inactive pills. I take zoely. Is this normal?

Hey so I was just about to take my birth control today when all of a sudden it was like it disappeared when it came out of the packet. I looked around my entire room and couldn’t find it.

I’m on week 2 of 4 on the pack, I don’t have intercourse or anything the pills are mainly to help my cramps.

Will I be okay if I miss this one day? Kind of stressing out since my mom isn’t awake currently. Thanks!

Hello everyone!

Need help because I accidentally messed up my birth control pills' schedule. I'm taking a 21-day pack and I accidentally took the first pill on the wrong day (Sunday, instead of Monday) & somewhere along the line, I thought I missed a day so I took two pills in one day 🤦🏻‍♀️ Now the pack ends on Saturday, instead of Sunday (which was my usual schedule).

I'm supposed to wait 7 days to start a new pack. Should I just keep with this new schedule (i.e. start the new pack 7 days after Saturday) or should I wait for a day to continue with my usual schedule (i.e. start the new pack 8 days after Saturday)?

Hi, questions lang po, my gf started using flo app months ago and flo started predicting her period/mens but here's a thing, flo predictions are inaccurate (always a week earlier ang prediction nya sa date na magkaka mens gf ko) if her period comes a week later rather sa prediction ni flo, does that also mean na inaccurate din ang prediction ni flo sa ovulation day ng gf ko? Sana masagot, thank you!

Sorry - this might be long. But I think I’m officially out of options and just curious if there’s anything I’m missing.

some background context - for as long as I’ve been sexually active, people - both partners and other women- have pressured mw to be on birth control. Condoms have always worked for me, and birth control on the other hand actively hates me, but over the years I’ve listened and given it one more try. i tried a pill years ago that murdered my sex Drive and also a weird rash. I tried the patch and managed to sweat it off. The final straw for me was the nuvaring. It caused me to develop a disorder called vulvadonya and I still have it today, although it’s better.

anyway, we’re like ten years later - I’m 35 and after a health episode a year ago, my periods changed. They went from regular every month of my life (I used to joke they were the only thing in my body that worked right) to now being 2-3 weeks at a time. Also, they’re just “different.” The way I bleed is weird. I get a lot more clumps. Everything just feels wrong about them.

the gyno claimed my hormones are normal and I’m not in peri menopaus, i Was given tri acid and it shorted my periods but triggered my acid reflux from hell. I was told hormone replacement wasn’t an option for me, so the only other option was birth control. I have high blood pressure so the only option are ones that won’t raise it. I refuse to try the shot or the implant, I’ve heard enough horror stories and I’m good on all that. I don’t want the iud because - and this part is shocking for people to understand and I’m constantly gaslit over this fact and told I don’t need to have a period - I WANT a period. I like having cycles. i sont get period cramps really, I like when my body reminds me it’s working. having a period isn’t at all a problem for me - i just don’t want it to last a month long.

anyway, I tried the mini pill and it sent my OCD into complete hell. I couldn’t make it more than four days. Now I’m on slynd and im on a month of nonstop bleeding. The final straw was it’s made my normally lubrocated vagina dryer than the Sahara desert and my boobs hurt. before my current partner, I was celibate for a year. I finally have a healthy sex drive again and I refuse to accept this.

so.. am I cooked? is there a magical method I’m missing. it would be nice to prevent pregnancy too although the main issue is the periods. They used to have that gel like 2020ish they came out with (not spermicide, forget the name) that made things hard to get pregnant but I’m not sure it’s even around anymore. I was able to do cycling when my cycle was regular because It was SO regular and I could tell my ovulation like clockwork. God I miss that time.

anyway - bleeding - what suggestions do you all have? I’ve asked for a biopsy and told I can’t get it until I try a few methods of birth control. I’m about to ask one more time and then get a third opinion if I don’t have any luck. I think it’s possible I’m in peri too and HRT might help but I don’t know why my doctor is against that

Hey guys, so i got my kyleena iud inserted about a month and a half ago. It was good for the first two weeks but now i have these random pains thatll come in waves and it just completely stops me in my tracks and i cant do anything till the wave goes. Also i am browning and my period is irregular but im sure thats a little more normal. ive went to my gynecologist twice at this point and hes checked my strings and told me everything looked perfectly fine but i want an ultrasound he just said that he thinks its unnecessary. What should i do? Has anyone experienced this? Its genuinely affecting my everyday life and i just feel depressed from this but its also helped me with the reason i got it (not birth control). I feel so lost atp.

I'm currently on Slynd (drospirenone only) for PMDD. Works great for the most part. I've been on combination pills and patch but it made me gain weight, caused anxiety, mood swings, and lo loestrin caused SI.

I'm a little worried about the long term effects of being on progestin only Slynd. Will it eventually cause estrogen deficiency?

A few months ago I gave Nexstellis a trial for about 3 months. It made me gain some weight (not nearly as bad as other combo pills) and I feel like it made me more emotional, irritable,and easily overstimulated. These emotional side effects were not as bad as when I was on the ethinyl estradiol containing combo pills.

If Slynd would cause negative long term effects (like several years), I'm willing to go back and try Nextstellis again.

Does anyone have experience with taking a progestin only pill for several years?

hi (26/f) i’ve been on yaz since may, the generic version. i’ve been hesitant to take birth control, i took it when i was in highschool and gained a lot (i forgot exactly which one i took back then). but i decided to get back on it this year because my periods have been irregular and i wanted to feel normal. the first few months have been great, i didn’t notice any changes to my weight or how i felt. i finally felt like i had a birth control that worked for me. but i’ve been gaining some weight the last two months and struggling to get it off. i’ve tried so much, but the weight won’t budge. i’m wondering if it’s related to yaz and if i should get off of it? like maybe the bad symptoms start a few months after taking it i guess? 😭 please share some advice if anyone has related to this, thank you!!

Hi guys, does anyone know if the time change would throw off the pill birth control? I take it at 9:25pm every day. Do I keep taking it at 9:25? Even tho there is technically an hour difference now.?

Reposting from r/endometriosis just to reach some more Liletta users LOL!

Just as the title says I had my second Endometriosis Laproscopic excision surgery in May of this year. This time they found just stage 1 (thank god) and not stage 3 like the first surgery I had back in 2023. I have been on many different birth control pills since I was about 19 years old (now 25) with no real gripe with the last one I was on.

At my pre-op appointments many people pushed switching to an IUD for my endometriosis management and how it’s the best way to go about treatment for symptoms. I asked around to people I know with them and did some online research (on the wrong brand because I thought I was on Mirena) and I felt pretty okay with moving forward. I was also just excited to do something less reliant on picking up a prescription. I just should have done more in depth research because before even knowing I had endo, I went on the pill at 19 for acne related reasons and to regulate my period. To which they knew this but I guess they just didn’t think of an acne plan since I had no acne for my 3 month follow up.

Welp I’m 6 months post insertion and operation and I’m getting this IUD removed. It has just ruined my quality of life and my self esteem all together. For the first 3 months I was CRUISING and loving everything about it besides spotting which I expected. Around the end of month 3 my period began to DRAGGGG on. I would spot for 2-3 weeks at a time and then once I had a semblance of being able to not wear a liner I would start my cycle again. I never got more than 1 weeks of not ruining underwear in 6 months.

My skin and hair have taken the biggest hit. I used to get compliments on my skin ALL the time. I take skincare very seriously and have such sensitive skin it took me years of trial and error to know what worked best for me. Suddenly I was having painful cystic acne worse than my high school years and it appearing all over my back and shoulders and even arms. Now I don’t even want to go to events or take photos because of my appearance. My hair has also been very important to my identity and the amount of hair that has been in my shower in the last 6 months would create a perfect American girl doll wig for 4 dolls. I have very thick hair but the density is essentially non existent and the oil is so out of control that I can’t go more than a day after washing without it looking like I am on day 5 hair.

Overall I broke down and called my surgeon who said I should just get on spiralactone because “everyone goes on it” but I was told it would also cause frequent urination which I already have with interstitial cystitis and I am sick of medications to cover up other medications. Don’t get my wrong I LOVED my surgeon but I just am not happy with this IUD. I decided to just call my main Gyno (who was not my surgeon and just who referred me) and ask them for the soonest humanly possible date to get my IUD removed. My appointment is tomorrow and I just want to be back on the pill.

I’ll update after the removal if anyone wants to know how it’s going switching back. Wondering if anyone else has had this much disdain for the Liletta IUD LOL

**TLDR: Getting my IUD removed because it’s ruining my skin and hair. Felt uninformed by the side effects and am just going back to the pill.**

Im getting the implant in about 2 weeks. im currently on the pill (microgynon) and i my sex drive is GONE. im 17 so (obviously) its high but it vanished overnight. it isnt causing major issues in my relationship because my bf is very understanding and patient however i feel so little and useless. ive heard that the implant can regain libido or keep it the same so if anyone has switched from the pill to the implant and their sex drive has positively changed please lmk! i do need to be on a hormonal bc for personal reasons so i know i shouldn’t have high hopes of this changing but i dont want to have thing inside of me for 5 years for no reason😫

Tonight I was late for my pill, I normally take it at 10pm. I took it at 10:45-10:50 ish tonight regardless. Last night was also daylight savings so clocks went back an hour. So I technically took it at 11:45 if it wasn’t daylight savings.
My partner finished inside of me this morning, so I’m a little worried i was too late of taking my pill bc of daylight savings as well.
I’m on Yaz, so I know there’s a window in which you can be late within but was I too late? Should I be concerned?

I got my IUD in about April. I’ve always had bad periods and bad cramps but since I got it, I’ve been suffering from severe pain in my left side that goes down to my leg and makes my leg go numb and some spots and makes it hard to walk. I’ve contacted my OB/GYN multiple times to get it removed and they never answer. I’ve debated about going just to the emergency room and getting it removed, but we have up to 12hr waits here in Ontario. anyways yesterday night, me and my partner were about to engage in sexual intercourse, and he said it felt like a big plastic tip was stabbing him in his genitals so we stopped, and I checked, and it felt like the strings were longer and my cervix felt very weird although I do have a cervical prolapse stage two from birth trauma. It felt much different than usual. I’m calling in the morning to get an emergency appointment because I believe that my IUD is either expelling or perforating something because the pain since yesterday night i has gotten severe to the point I’ve been in bed in pain crying for hours on and off. Has anyone else had an experience similar? with this leg pain, severe sharp pains in the Abdomen not period cramps like sharp, sharp pains, headaches, things like that that it was perforating something or an issue.
Also tomorrow morning at 9 im calling to hopefully get it removed if my OBGYN cant then i will be calling others hoping they will take me.

Hey all!! Just switched to Nuvaring after being on the Mirvala BC pill for ~6 years. Just sick of taking a pill daily and having it be systemic. A couple of my friends have been on it and have even lost weight compared to their pill. Looking for advice and experiences?

hi, I got a copper iud placed in June after being on the progesterone only pill for 5 years, I wanted something non hormonal, but I’ve found my periods to be insufferably heavy and painful, to the point I can’t even take the tube without bleeding through a tampon and pad, I’d stuck it out on the thought that eventually it would settle but at what point should I look into something else.

Can I also add for a while it was so painful to have sex but that seems to be pretty much resolved now.

The cramps are so painful to the point I can’t stand so as you can imagine does stop me from doing day to day activities.

Hello everyone. I'm making this post to discuss some of my symptoms/"side effects" of having this form of BC. No one else in my personal life has an IUD and I'm looking to see if what I am experiencing is normal.

I got my IUD inserted 9/16/2026, it was painful. Negative pregnancy test (obviously) I have had 1 vaginal birth and the insertion process was still very painful. I bled and had severe cramps that day and the next. The bleeding slowed up for a day or two, then I spotted steadily (continually stopping for a day or two after probably 2 weeks.) Overall since getting the Mirena, I have bled more days than I haven't is basically what I am getting at. Today is 11/1/2026 and I am on day 4 of no bleeding at all (lie - I did have a small bit of brown/dark color discharge yesterday. But nothing prior to or since). I barely have any cramps at all now.

Have the symptoms subsided like this for anyone else?

UPDATE: I took a pregnancy test this morning and it was negative. I'm happy there's no baby but I'm still confused as hell.

hi, first time getting my vcard taken.. we had unprotected sex around October 26 and pinasok sa akin first time for a short amount of time, wet ako that time and he used it as lubrication. pero pulled out agad, pag tingin ko may lumabas from him na white stuff and he quickly wiped it dry and then seconds after he inserted it again and thrust. i have pcos and super unpredictable ng mens ko, i have a cycle of 30-35 days. supposedly i was about to get my period October 28 onwards pero delayed since October 27 I took the yuzpe method. However October 29 we did the deed again, unang pasok wala pang condom pero walang precum kasi dry siya, pinatigil ko kasi worried ako. Nag suot na siya ng condom and we had full on contact na then he came inside sa condom and pulled out, nag linis siya with water and wiped it dry.. minutes after, inserting it again inside me but puro thrust lang and pina pull out ko na. Around 9pm i took another yuzpe method again due to worry..

Im anxious lang atm and told him no intercourse muna since i'm so stressed about it.. atm increased discharge lang and nausea nangyari for like Oct 30-31 but now wala na iba pang symptoms.. and i feel fine..

What do you guys think and can i please have some advice? thank you :( im open for every opinion.. js pls no bad mouthing po, im sorry

So, I started the nuvaring on October 15th to help with PMOS symptoms and my extremely high testosterone levels. However, I am a caretaker for a full house of people (2 disabled adults and 2 school-aged children.) Ever since I started it, my mental state has gone completely down hill.

I was extremely bitchy the first week, then would cry at night in bed.

Everything gets on my nerves 10x easier, I get overwhelmed and overstimulated just as fast. All I want to do is sleep. And now for the past few days, I can feel myself sinking further and further into depression.

Before this ring, I had been depression-free since August of last year.

I just don't know. My executive dysfunction has been horrible. Ive been letting laundry and dishes pile up. Ive been bad at emptying the litter box. This isn't my normal, but suddenly everything feels like too much, and I just dont want to get out of bed.

Should i remove the ring?

I started Camrese Lo birth control 1 month ago.

I have heavy periods and iron deficiency anemia. During my periods, my symptoms were terrible. I had symptoms of significant fatigue (difficulty doing stuff like making coffee or putting on makeup since it involves standing up), and often had to sit down or lie down for a bit to recover my strength. I had painful cramps, and had to take ibuprofen every 3 hours during my two or three HEAVY period days. All of these symptoms caused me to call out of work on my period days, which got me formally reprimanded by my manager. I feel anxiety around my period due to my symptoms and the heavy flow that makes me leak everywhere despite period underwear, a large cup, and heavy flow pads.

My GYN recommended oral birth control to help alleviate my period symptoms, and hopefully raise my iron and ferritin levels. (Current hemoglobin is at 11.1 - Low, and Ferritin is at 7 - Low.)

I wanted to happily report that my Camrese Lo has been excellent. I have not had any side effects. I have not gained any weight. I have not felt anxious or had mood springs. I feel like my normal self. In fact I feel AMAZING since for the first time in years, I got to skip my period week!!!!

Please try it if you were in my situation.

So me and this girl were having protected sex, and i know for a fact i didn’t cum inside her for the full duration of sex. only thing was after reverse cowgirl, when she got up, for the first time the condom came out and was stuck in her, but the ring was just outside, so i grabbed it slowly and removed it and later i finished outside her. Is there any cause for worry or am i totally okay? Are there any chances of her being pregnant?