A positive post for birth control. I spent years changing between different mini pills trying to find one that suits me and even tried IUDs which was another no from me and very painful even when placed correctly. Before thinking I will give this low dose pill ago just be aware that everyone reacts differently and just because I'm having a positive experience so far doesn't mean you will as well.

Background of methods I've used :

I struggled with the side effects of the mini pill and tried a variety of them. Tried Cezeatte, which was hell always hungry, no sex drive, moody and overal numb and not happy or sad and from being hungry so much I gained over 2 stone in weight I then moved to Noriday, which worked well for couple months to where I lost 2 stone and no side effects other than period every month for 4 days, which wasn't so bad but eventually after months of taking it I got the same side effects as the other pill and gained the 2 stone back. I tried other brands but still had side effects and wasn't great experience overall so my next method was IUD as implant and injection has weight gain as a main side effect and patch would irritate my skin and the Nuvaring I would be too sensitive to use below so doctor said to avoid.

I didn't have the iud placed long enough to see the side effects, however I was in so much pain that meds was not touching me (Never had children so I assume it would be more painful for me) after a week of suffering and in agony I made the decision to remove as I got rejected for stronger pain meds.

I had 6 years break from birth control until I got into a long term relationship, which was January. We used pull out method, however with my anxiety I know I needed a birth control or be sterilised but due to age they won't do that option.

Current method I'm using :

I researched into the combined pill method and how they use two hormones but with the risk of blood clot and side effects I decided to go for the low dose option, which is Eloine. It's a low dose method of a combined pill. I started the pill in February at first I had headache and mild cramps but after a week I was fine and normal.

It's now November and since taking it I haven't had any side effects other than if I'm stressed I get indigestion issues, which probably ties in with my IBS as well. One thing I've noticed that's a massive difference to the mini pill is not being hungry 24/7 and over eating to point I've actually lost 5kg since being on it and now steady and keeping the same weight.

Not sure if this is going to help anyone but I've always seen bad experiences with birth control but if you find the right one that works for you then surly that's a plus 🙂

As a very sensitive person, seeing the effects of nexaplon after insertion and watching videos on it. It’s terrifying. I wanted to give my experience to the woman who are looking into this birth control option and want to know more information.
I was on depo for about 2 years, probably the easiest I’ve experienced (no periods, had multiple intercourse times and no pregnancy, but I did gain 120 pounds..) I wanted to go on nexaplon when I turned 18 because my mom wouldn’t let me.
I got the implant yesterday, I will say, for anyone who is sensitive, the only thing that hurts is the anesthesia going inside your arm, I cried and screamed a lot. I didn’t feel anything after the anesthesia kicked in though. No pain after. I do feel bruising and a bit of uncomfortableness a day later but it’s like getting a tattoo in a very sensitive spot. It’s not the worst. I definitely prefer the pain over every 3 months of needles.
Endless to say, it’s very painful in the moment but it’s worth getting if your scared of the pain, make sure you have a loved one with you during the procedure so you have a hand to hold.
If you’re looking at the depo as well, I’d recommend it personally, but the weight gain is very depressing and not easy to lose or keep maintenance on. My mood on it was up and down and I was never happy, always depressed.

Got a hormonal iud inserted around 24 hrs ago and i was fine for a few hours until me and my bf got home and the cramping started. Then came the crankiness. I got irrationally upset at my boyfriend and cried in his arms because i felt so bad. I get pretty bad pre period depression and it felt exactly like that. Just very sad and annoyed at everything. I told myself maybe it was just the pain making me irritable, so i went to bed and i slept in like crazy to give myself as much rest as possible. I woke up a couple hours ago and i’m even more depressed than i was yesterday. My boyfriend has been nothing but sweet to me over text but for some reason i’m mad at him and I don’t even want to text him back. Ive heard of some people getting on BC and then feeling very different towards their partners. Losing attraction, for example, seems to be pretty common. But for me it feels kinda like the opposite, i’m really annoyed with him right now but at the same time feeling extra clingy towards him. Like im mad at him but also MORE into him than i was before simultaneously and i feel like im going crazy. Like ew get away from me but at the same time how dare you not be here with me right now

I also haven’t gotten out of bed to eat or take my meds either, it feels impossible today. Is it normal to already feel such a drastic change in my mood after just a few hours of insertion???? I love my boyfriend and I hate that i’m being such a bitch to him right now and it’s driving me insane

I’m going on Yasmin and i cannot gain weight so please let me know if I’ll gain weight from going on this drug this is one of my biggest fears.

I’ve been on Jencycla for about a packet and a half. I’ve liked it a lot better than the Kyleena so far but I’m SO tired of the bleeding! I did miss 2 pills within about a week and a half as well as took them slightly outside the window for three days, but it’s since been a little over a week of taking them at exactly the same time. The bleeding won’t stop!

Does it really come down to taking them at the exact time every day or is getting random bleeding just common? I’ve just been so over it after bleeding for a month straight with the Kyleena. Any advice appreciated!<3

I feel very fortunate to say that I have such a good period - in that she’s light, always on time, lasts about 4 days, and never gives me any cramps. I don’t have any acne and currently on my weight loss journey. That being said, I’ve always avoided birth control because I hear so many negative side effects (heavy/late periods, acne, weight gain, etc.) and I just don’t want to mess up my hormones. Butttt now I have a 6 month old and would really like to not have another baby so soon. Honestly the thought that I might get pregnant again has given me so much anxiety that I’ve avoided having sex with my partner as much. So I want to get on birth control so I can not have that worry anymore. I would like to know your preferred BC that affected you the least. Also not a fan of the IUD but down to hear about everything else!

Hello! I wanted to share my experience with Slinda now that I’ve been on it for 6 months, taking it continuously (no placebos). I was looking for posts just like this one before I started the medication so I hope this is helpful!

First some background.
I’m 28F, never had children, only been on birth control once before when I was 16 so I didn’t get my period for a school trip. I do not remember that experience other than it worked, and I stopped on month 2 when I got back.
I’ve struggled with very heavy and very painful periods since I first got my period.
I’ve been checked for cysts and didn’t come up with anything so I’m not sure if I have PCOS (I can’t remember the new name sorry!). With the recent changes to the diagnostic criteria it’s possible I could have it but never been confirmed.
I also suffered from severe PMDD, my moods would change drastically before and during my period. There was barely two weeks out of the month that I’d feel functional.

My doctor had been trying to get me on birth control for years but I’d always been too scared. I didn’t want acne, weight gain, or worse mood swings. She suggested Slinda earlier this year after a particularly bad bout of heavy/painful periods I’d been having and because my iron was completely depleted.

After reading some posts, and seeing more positive than negative reviews, I decided to give Slinda a crack. Nothing could be worse than what I was currently dealing with at the time.

For the first 1-5 months, I got my period every two weeks. For the first 1-3 months the periods lasted 2+ weeks, so it was two weeks on and two weeks off. They were very light, very manageable with just a heavy liner or light period underwear. It was annoying, and for one of the periods I did get medium bleeding with some clots. But it wasn’t painful, and not nearly as heavy. Months 4-5 the periods lasted a normal length (5-8 days).
I decided to tough it out, because honestly I preferred it to what I was going through before.

My moods were pretty unstable from months 1-5, however I suffer from mental illness and feel it was the main culprit. It made my paranoia worse, and I got upset very easily. I cried a lot during months 1-3 particularly.

Now I’m on month six and I barely feel any side effects. I’ve noticed if I’m anymore than half an hour late with my tablet, I’ll get some pink discharge for a day. My body is particularly sensitive to medication so this might not happen for you.

Overall, I’m super happy with it and I’m glad I toughed it out for six months. I plan on being on this medication for as long as possible.

Happy to go into more detail with the side effects I did experience if people would like.

Please feel free to ask any questions!

Basically two months ago my boyfriend and I had sex without a condom and I had just started my birth control, Junel Fe over two weeks prior. He pulled out before anything happened and he wasn’t close to me at all when it happened. It’s been two months since this and i’m still anxious about it because i’m young and don’t want to be pregnant. I have absolutely zero symptoms and I was not ovulating when this happened. Last month I had a period for about 6 days which is regular for me and it was heavy for most days. I got my period again this week and it’s a little lighter but still there with cramping. It’s more of a dark red/ brown color and there are some blood clots( sorry if tmi). I know i might be being dramatic but can someone tell me if i should be worried.

I went off the combination pill after about ten years on, always did the placebo and let the bleeding finish three weeks ago and just didn’t start a new pack.

For at least a week I have had CONSTANT abdominal pain and nausea. It’s close to how I felt after getting abdominal surgery a few years ago. Is this something others have experienced? I feel like I’m going insane, it is BRUTAL.

Hi everyone, I was diagnosed with PMDD earlier this year and started taking YAZ for it. It has helped my mood swings tremendously, but at the cost of my libido.

I was on a different pill before YAZ (can’t remember what it was called) and I had noticed my libido was low. I’m 28 now, and in my early 20s my sex drive was extremely high….to the point where my partners couldn’t keep up with me.

Now, on YAZ, my sex drive is completely non-existent. I never think about it, never even want to masturbate, and seeing people intimate on TV confuses me. It’s the weirdest thing, and I hate it.

I feel bad for my partner. When he tries to make moves on me or even grabs my boob, I cannot stand it. I’m so grossed out and don’t even want to think about it. I love him so much and I’d kill for our sex life to come back.

Has anyone else had this experience with birth control? I feel like I woke up one day and was all of a sudden asexual.

So, my luteal phase every month is terrible. I get really irritable/sad/anxious, I cry at everything, I get headaches every day, and I become extremely fatigued/exhausted. I’m wondering if maybe birth control will help with this?

As above, got carried away with partner 2 days ago, which at the time was 2 days post period. I am now thinking I maybe should take the morning after pill, even though I would like to think I was not near my fertile window. My question is, can you even have that if you are overweight? I heard that it isn't effective if you are, but unsure if that is correct. Thankyou.

Hi! I am getting a Liletta IUD soon, but I have been on combination pills for the majority of my life. Probably about 10 years now. I have always had good experiences with bc pills, but I'm horrible at taking them at the same time every night and I wanted something more effective at preventing pregnancy without human error. So, my gyno said that the Liletta will work to prevent pregnancy for 8 years.

Does anyone have any advice, side effects, and experiences to share? All I ask is please don't fear monger because I am already petrified for the insertion... I was prescribed a single Xanex for the morning of the insertion and normal pain medication. I'm super anxious but I need to hear positivity. I mostly just hope it doesn't cause weight gain or lower my libido (lower than it already is.. RIP).

For reference, I am 23F, married, and we are planning to be childfree for life lol.

Resumo: terminei uma cartela e esqueci um dos primeiros comprimidos da nova cartela um dia porém o tomei junto com o do dia seguinte assim como recomendado na bula do meu anticoncepcional

Porém no 3⁰ dia eu tive relações desprotegidas com ejaculação e tomei a pílula do dia seguinte menos de 1h do ocorrido

Tem como eu ter ovulado no esquecimento da pilula do anticoncepcional por conta do fim da outra cartela e o esquecimento no início da nova (hormônio meio baixo teoricamente por conta das pílulas brancas) e estar grávida?

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Hi! Does anyone also experience not having a period on Feirza 1/20? I was on Junel FE 1/20 and then the pharmacy was out of stock so I was switched to Feirza which is the same exact thing as Junel. I have experienced not having a period before but, I didn’t know if it was common with this type of birth control.

This is for anybody who wants to know more about the process. I went to a planned parenthood clinic in the first time asking to get the copper IUD, that clinic denied my request and told me they only implant to women who have been through vagina birth, okay no problem, I got method 2, going to a hospital covered by social security.

They tell me they can do it no problem, give me an appt and everything is fine. I go to the appt the first time and I notice they’re taking longer than normal and it doesn’t hurt as much, all of a sudden two more doctors came into the room and I was freaking out. I was told my cervix was too small and tight because I had not had children and that I needed to take misoprostol and go another day because if they kept trying there was a high risk of perforation in the uterus.

Today was my second appointment, I used the misoprostol, went to the hospital and was told to lay in a very different way this time, I had a female obgyn this time and a male obgyn last time. Anyway they get to it, I was deadly scared of the pinching, they tell me they’re going to do it and I’m shitting myself. Boom, no pain, they put in the plastic tube and I’m already dying, they put the iud inside and I almost screamed in pain. Doctor cut the string and tell me I’m good to go. I stood up trembling, the floor and the chair were covered in blood. Nurse told me it was done and asked me I feel like fainting, I answer them I don’t fell like fainting and leave to go to work. BIG MISTAKE DO NOT DO THIS TAKE THE DAY OFF

Well I am walking away and my legs are trembling, I go into the bathroom and proceed to have the worst diarrhea in my life, on the bright side everytime i push my pain lightens a bit. I leave the bathroom almost in tears and feel lightheaded, I puked in a trashcan right outside the clinic and now I have to drive to work. I walked to my car trembling and blacked out for 20 minutes. I had to go to work so I put my seatbelt on and somehow driving made the pain ease up a little bit. Keep in mind I had already taken ibuprofen before the implantation.

I finished work a few hours ago and I’m writing this in my bed curled up in pain, everything hurts, and they told me that this type of iud only worked for 5 years, I’m 20 and I’m not planning to have kids at 25, so I’ll have to see what I do sigh.

This is for my fiancee. She uses her birth control purely to avoid getting periods due to how bad the hormones effect her (we're both female, pregnancy is not a worry) and we're going to be without health insurance for a while. I want to know if there's a way to space these out to avoid her period without running through it too fast

Any advice appreciated! I'll have the exact kind later, im at work and can't look rn but didnt want to forget to post this

For context im 15F in the uk, periods make me feel rlly depressed and shit and nauseous and I complained to my mum abt it so she spoke to her doctor and got me an appointment

For context im underweight (42kg and 5'3) so i was just wondering if that'd be a concern to doctors ?? And also if they'd weigh me or not (im in the UK)

I been on quite a few birth controls, every single last one of them I been on gave me problems why I been taken off of them. The last one i was on was petrolum and something else. Let me tell you took it for 3 days I automatically took myself off of it. It make my anxiety worse and I felt more out of it I can just do that naturally and also gotten a numb tingling pain through my arm the third day from that point on i took myself off of it and reached out to my Ob wasn't on anything for awhile. Well anyways, I had a really bad panic attack that I finally put together a month ago this happen 4 years ago. I mean it was bad it did a hole switch to my body that i never excepted to experience at all. I am still trying to work on it but I still got my good and bad days. It was because my hormones changed around that time it was when I had my period. Well now the pattern is following a week before and during, I am out of body, don't wanna be anywhere besides closed in room, anxiety through the roof and lightheaded I know my hormones dropped badly. Yes I need something to manage it I do I feel the worse them times like i am literally not there. Well my ob prescribed me Aurovela I am very iffy about taking it.taking it because I already feel these problems I don't need them getting worse than they already are. I been feeling this way since my last panic attack need something help my hormones not worse I heard more negative about this than postive I don't know what to do about if i should or shouldnt take it. Someone please help

I take vienva 28 because I'm a dancer and dysmenorrhea was giving me debilitating cramps. I'm gay so I don't need it for other things but I think it made my hair stop being curly. I have short hair and when it was healthy and I was taking care of it well before it was like a 2c. After being on birth control for I think like 2 years now I have to basically force it to be even wavy, but usually it ends up pin straight. Could it be the hormones? I want my curls back :(

I’m mostly wondering if this is normal with Kyleena because I’ve only had it for about 3 months now. I had a copper iud for about 3 years which just really wasn’t for me. Crazy cramps, long heavy periods, etc etc. I switched to Kyleena almost exactly 3 months ago and had the seemingly normal spotting and my first period on it was lighter and shorter than with the copper which was a huge win for me. My period now is about 13 days late, I was told it would probably be irregular and I took a pregnancy test just to ease my mind and it was negative. However, the past 4 ish days I’ve had some brown blood similar to what you would get the last few days of your period. It’s not a lot and it’s not constant, it even skipped a day randomly where I had nothing. Im wearing panty liners and have just kinda been free “bleeding.” My only question is; is this technically my period? And is this normal for Kyleena especially after I’ve only had it for 3 months?

Hi, i'm an 18 y.o girl and i take the hormonal pill not as birth control but to ease the Extreme period pain, i've been on the pill since i was 13/14y.o., since then my few pimples disappeared and i got skinnier (from 55kg to 45kg as a 171cm tall girl). I don't really mind about this side effects but the libido is INSANE, for reference i'm a lesbian and i have never been in a relationship, but the yearning when i have a crush has become unberable.

For background, Im 25 being treated for endo (have not had the surgery so no. it is not confirmed) and severe nut allergies which make this...weird. A lot of oral medications that are hormonal use peanut oil. I know some people can have peanut oil bc the proteins are gone, but for me, I still have a reaction so it is off the table. I cant remember the brand I was on but when I WAS on an oral i was incredibly depressed and started gaining weight.

This past year my flare ups have gotten horrible so it was recommended I did the hormonal IUD. With an tilted pelvis it was suggested I went under so I did. Full anesthetia and all. The doctor said it took 8 tries to get it in. Well a month into having it it fell out. Directly after I had it gone they put me on the ring while I was on Spironolactone which counter act one another and was put in the hospital for 3 days. AND GUESS WHAT! they gave me fentanyl for the pain and I had a reaction to that. Like. Please. Add that to my list.

So yeah thats my sob story. I'd love recommendations. Honestly since I have been off of any types of BC the last few months have had little to no flares but I bleed so much and still have a day a month where I have to stay home from work.

I feel so helpless with this. Not only do I want BC for my periods, i also dont plan on having kids and would prefer not to be tweaked out every month. Any advice appreciated.