LOLOL!

Oh, no.... not just you. I think my best Triphasil moment was when I decided that what i had seen that day on "The Young and the Restless" was just to much to bear!!! And I wept for like an hour..... over tv..... not even real tv.... a sopa opera.....something was seriously wrong with that picture....

I tried the patch and the thought of blow drying my hair one day had me bursting into tears, I also had crazy mood swings. It was just too much hormone for me, and I wasn't too fond of the skin issues and weight gain either. Everyone's body is different and I know there are things that worked at one point in my life I had no problems with and now that I am older and not in puberty that I can't tolerate. I am very thankful for the new types on the market because I take it for a medical problem and my last resort before the Nuva-Ring was surgery that would render me unable to carry a child. I say NO to that, and yes to Nuva-Ring.

I have been crying at 7th Heaven. Enough said.

My crazy hormone moment was with Seasonale when I broke down hysterically crying and was unconsolable because my goldfish died.

This isn't true. You don't have to have a previous pregnancy. Some gyns will say that because it is hard to place any IUD in a woman that hasn't had a child. (The uterus is smaller and the cervix tighter, so it will try to expell the IUD.)

Do they artificially dilate the cervix? YOWZA! :(

Maybe it's for that reason, but I believe the pamphlet that my Dr. gave me on it said that you had to have a previous pregnancy. Maybe it's just (more effective? safe? less likely to be rejected?) easier in women who have had a previous pregnancy. Although with mirena, it's soft plastic and smaller then a quarter, so I can't imagine it being THAT hard to insert. :confused: Just going by what my OB/GYN told me.

My ob/gyn told me to avoid Seasonale. She said the breakthru bleeding was ridiculous and that the symptoms could last for 6-8 months. She would only prescribe that for someone who in their case having their cycle was more painful than dealing with the hormone swings and the breakthru bleeding. Was she right?

Oh yea. The break through bleeding was so bad that it was actually significantly heavier than my period on its worst day. And it lasted for 18 days straight. I went to the doctor and ended up being sent to the hospital to get an anemia test because I was losing so much blood. Yea you only get your period four times a year, they just forget to mention that it lasts for weeks at a time.

I'm also just going by what my gyn told me. He's placed IUDs in a lot of my friends (both copper, hormonal, and Mirena.)

I wouldn't doubt that it is easier to place in previously pregnant women, and there is some instances of scarring that could render you sterile, so maybe they only recommend it for people who are done having children. Though, the scarring rendering me sterile was something that attracted me to IUDs. (I have no qualms about not wanting kids ever.)

I must be one of the few women on Depo that hasn't had any sort of side effects.

I LOVE IT!!!

I don't get a period (whats not to like about that). I don't have crazy mood swings (unless I'm super stressed out with normal life, like now). My hair hasn't fallen out in clumps.

As for my period, it has always started up within 3-4 months after I ended my Depo shots.

I've tried so many BCP's it isn't even funny. Some have made me sick, others haven't. My problem with BCP's is that I suck at remembering to take pills. I have always said that if I was sexually active I'd already have like 3 kids and probably be pregnant again. I just don't remember to take pills. Hell, I don't even remember to take my vitamins daily.


What's good is that there is so many birth control methods out there for women that we no longer have to be locked into one kind. So many different pills and other methods.