For those on the pill: What age did you go on it?
I took the pill on and off for the better part of 15 years. I've always hated it. I don't like the idea of taking hormones at all and I hate how taking the pill made me feel. After we had our first child I got Mirena and while I still hated the idea of hormones, it was awesome to not have to remember to take the pill at the same time everyday. The Mirena didn't work for us though. I mean it worked but every single time we had sex, the guide threads poked him in the end of his penis, and I eventually had it removed. We now rely solely on condoms during vaginal intercourse and have nixed the hormone issues all together.
01/18/2011
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What poked him? Threads? I've never heard of Mirena, what is it?
Originally posted by
DixieDarling
I took the pill on and off for the better part of 15 years. I've always hated it. I don't like the idea of taking hormones at all and I hate how taking the pill made me feel. After we had our first child I got Mirena and while I still hated
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I took the pill on and off for the better part of 15 years. I've always hated it. I don't like the idea of taking hormones at all and I hate how taking the pill made me feel. After we had our first child I got Mirena and while I still hated the idea of hormones, it was awesome to not have to remember to take the pill at the same time everyday. The Mirena didn't work for us though. I mean it worked but every single time we had sex, the guide threads poked him in the end of his penis, and I eventually had it removed. We now rely solely on condoms during vaginal intercourse and have nixed the hormone issues all together.
01/18/2011
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Yes, the threads poked him. An IUD is placed inside the base of your cervix and the Mirena had what equated to fishing line as guide wires out of the end of the cervix, so you could check to see if it was in place or if it had moved or not. Personally, I could never reach it to feel for myself, but it stayed right where it was supposed to be until I had it removed. The Mirena brand is the small flexible IUD that has pretty much replaced the old copper wrapped hard wire ones of old. I loved everything about it but the hormones and my husband freaking and shoving my body off of his. That was not a happy time in our house. But I had a few glorious period free months before it was gone.
Originally posted by
Illusional
What poked him? Threads? I've never heard of Mirena, what is it?
01/18/2011
At 14 I voluntarily confessed to my mother than I wasn't a virgin (my family is super open and supportive and although they didn't particularly support having sex at such a young age, I hated keeping the secret from her) and I got sent to the gyno for a pap test and pill prescription. Been on it ever since, pretty much.
01/18/2011
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Ohhh, well thanks for explaining it to me. I haven't heard all of these birth control options before!
Originally posted by
DixieDarling
Yes, the threads poked him. An IUD is placed inside the base of your cervix and the Mirena had what equated to fishing line as guide wires out of the end of the cervix, so you could check to see if it was in place or if it had moved or not.
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Yes, the threads poked him. An IUD is placed inside the base of your cervix and the Mirena had what equated to fishing line as guide wires out of the end of the cervix, so you could check to see if it was in place or if it had moved or not. Personally, I could never reach it to feel for myself, but it stayed right where it was supposed to be until I had it removed. The Mirena brand is the small flexible IUD that has pretty much replaced the old copper wrapped hard wire ones of old. I loved everything about it but the hormones and my husband freaking and shoving my body off of his. That was not a happy time in our house. But I had a few glorious period free months before it was gone.
01/18/2011
After trying to correct my PCOS first through more natural means, by diet changes and supplements, I went onto the pill at age 20.
I then got put on the NuvaRing less than a year later. I have had much better results with the NuvaRing than with Yaz or Ocella/Yasmin. I have less of the withdrawl PMS-y symptoms. I used to get debilitating migraines every month when I took the placebo pills. Ugh!
I then got put on the NuvaRing less than a year later. I have had much better results with the NuvaRing than with Yaz or Ocella/Yasmin. I have less of the withdrawl PMS-y symptoms. I used to get debilitating migraines every month when I took the placebo pills. Ugh!
01/27/2011
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Been on and off the Pill since I was 16, almost every type of BCP and the NuvaRing and Depo, and it never did anything it was supposed to - reduce cramps, reduce bleeding, even out my hormones, reduce acne, etc. All it did was make my life worse by giving me more frequent (while on) and unpredictable (while off) periods, bigger boobs that I sure as heck didn't need, more headaches. I'm now 30 and I just now found a doc competent enough to test for PCOS and endometriosis. I just got a hysterectomy. Menstrual problems solved! Wish I could have gotten one when I was 20.
Originally posted by
LavenderSkies
Just curious
01/27/2011
I went on the pill at 16. It's never given me any problems but I went off it for a few months this past year when I went abroad and during that time I lost about 10 pounds and felt AMAZING. I've never felt BAD while on the pill, so it never occurred to me that I might feel better without it, but the difference was pretty startling. I'm thinking of trying an IUD when my prescription runs out.
03/08/2011
