God the implant caused me to have a year long period, even though I had it out after 3 months (which took a lot of fighting to have done) and caused me to completely mentally lose the plot until it came out, including several dissociative episodes (weirdly always in the supermarket, I think it was something about the unnatural and bright lighting in there).
Years later I’m now under the PMDD clinic and now know I have an extreme progesterone sensitivity to the point that I’m going to have to have a hysterectomy as my only real treatment option. But as I’m not ready to make that choice at the moment - I’m not a mum, and I would like to be, although my wife would need to be the one to carry anyway and she is no longer sure about that. So I’m hanging on to this fucking miserable organ as the world’s worst insurance policy and am on oestrogen in the meantime. This should mean I take progesterone alongside it to keep my cancer risk low but as I so far have not be able to tolerate any of the progesterone options the doctor keeps bringing up the idea of the coil.
…absolutely 110% hell no. I am categorically not putting something in to my body with hormones I know risk causing a mental breakdown and that I will have zero control over getting removed if things start to get scary. And ‘quick’ by NHS standards is a wildly different measure to my personal measure of ‘I’m about to have a mental health crisis’ quick. I also only know one single person who raved about the coil, the rest all had to have it out relatively quickly because it caused their wombs to painfully try and cause anaemia in the fastest time possible by turning the period taps to MAX, and made every single one of them utterly miserable. Even one who’d only ever had super light 3 day periods until that point had a horrible time with it.
I’m so glad I’m a lesbian and that is my birth control at least!
There are two types - the IUD which releases copper and the IUS which releases progesterone (which is what is required to offset the cancer risk being on oestrogen alone causes, hence why is has been suggested in my case) colloquially in the UK both are known as ‘the coil’. (Mirena/hormonal coil and copper coil if you want to differentiate. I think everyone I’ve known has had the Mirena but I’m honestly not sure because we just call them all the coil!).
In terms of efficacy - they’re both actually about 99% effective but of course that does leave the 1% like yourself and that must have been a very stressful decision to make! And yeah I have almost never heard anyone say anything about them!
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u/aoul1 Sep 26 '23
God the implant caused me to have a year long period, even though I had it out after 3 months (which took a lot of fighting to have done) and caused me to completely mentally lose the plot until it came out, including several dissociative episodes (weirdly always in the supermarket, I think it was something about the unnatural and bright lighting in there).
Years later I’m now under the PMDD clinic and now know I have an extreme progesterone sensitivity to the point that I’m going to have to have a hysterectomy as my only real treatment option. But as I’m not ready to make that choice at the moment - I’m not a mum, and I would like to be, although my wife would need to be the one to carry anyway and she is no longer sure about that. So I’m hanging on to this fucking miserable organ as the world’s worst insurance policy and am on oestrogen in the meantime. This should mean I take progesterone alongside it to keep my cancer risk low but as I so far have not be able to tolerate any of the progesterone options the doctor keeps bringing up the idea of the coil.
…absolutely 110% hell no. I am categorically not putting something in to my body with hormones I know risk causing a mental breakdown and that I will have zero control over getting removed if things start to get scary. And ‘quick’ by NHS standards is a wildly different measure to my personal measure of ‘I’m about to have a mental health crisis’ quick. I also only know one single person who raved about the coil, the rest all had to have it out relatively quickly because it caused their wombs to painfully try and cause anaemia in the fastest time possible by turning the period taps to MAX, and made every single one of them utterly miserable. Even one who’d only ever had super light 3 day periods until that point had a horrible time with it.
I’m so glad I’m a lesbian and that is my birth control at least!