I have had the Implanon before, and long storyt short, periods all over the place, too long and I had massive depression.
My DF doesn't really like to use condoms, preferring to pull-out. This scares me, as we've had a pregnancy scare before (ended up being a late period).
I have been on the pill before, but am scared about depression again. I can handle taking something every day, as I force myself to remember, "if you forget, you get pregnant". I am not ready for another baby yet, we're getting married and I want to wait 1-2 years to try.
I have a diaphragm, and that was ok, except DF can be a bit athletic and can dislodge it. I have recently been told after an ultrasound that I have a retroverted uterus.
Would an IUD work? What about Mirena? I have had heavy periods when I was a teenager, my mother had endo, so the doc put me on the pill in case I had endo too. It helped, but I still got really bad period pain, so I was put on the lowest dose available.
There are natural methods but I don't trust it, as I relied on that before and DD came along (I did mess up, but that's my point, it was my only method).
i have been looking into this as well.
As far as i can see the mirena is hormonal also.
You will needto look at the copper IUD and you need a qual ob that can insert it (ie referral needed).
I did some reading up and i am nervous about having it up there.... so we are now discussing sterilisation ....
I'm another implonon non-success story. After it was removed I looked into natural alternatives. Started with a babycomp and that led into charting, billings and Francesca Naish's books etc. I would definitely recommend this way as I feel so much aware and any moods have reasons now .. however it is involved, but kind of addictive. The babycomp is great for ease but it is limiting in the number of days allowed, that's why other methods were looked into . We've managed close to two years with no scares so its worked for me..are you a coffee drinker? that's probably helped us for a while as well
I can't stand coffee. Another reason why I am not going down the natural methods road is because I have a toddler, and am constantly taking her to and from the meeting point with her father. I sleep odd hours and am just not ready to be that completely focused on every little thing my body is doing. It may also affect the intimacy between my DF and I.
I also dont do well with hormonal contraception. I religiously temped and learned the Billings method, but these are not failsafe and I ended up telling DH that I had done the contraception for our entire marriage, and if he didn't want to get UTD it was either condom or abstinence. We always used condoms in conjunction with NFP, and were able to make the concious decision to TTC #3. TBH DH was happier to wear a condom and actually get some than to have me on hormones and have no libido.
Once this baby is born we will do NFP and condoms again until DH can get a Vasectomy, as 3 is it for us. My midwife has told us that DH will not be given a VS until he is at least 25, no matter what. I am lucky though that quite a bit of that year DH is likely to be away, as he is due to be deployed either late this year or early next year, so abstinence will be easy during that time and you can't get pregnant over the phone
iv had the mirena put in a week fri just gone...not sure how effective it is but im still in pain.
tried many pills and i had bleeding for 12 weeks straight (had no effect)
had the depo injection and i was bleeding on that...if this doesnt work im not sure what to do.
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I picked up my depo needle yesterday, now just off to the doc to get my jab. Have you thought about that? I don't know anything about the mirena sorry!
I'm less inclined to get the needle because I had a bad experience with implanon. The good thing was I could get it removed, but I can't make the hormones go away on depo. Plus I am concerned about whether it will affect my fertility later on.
Man, I seem to be knocking back everything. Argh, I should just make an appt with the doc to try a different pill. Thanks for all of your help.
Echina
I was on microgynon for a few years with the same issue as you - implanon was nasty and had it out and i got terrible migraines from normal pills.
The microgynon is a very low dose pill - and it is a constant dose (ie doesnt mimic your cycle by increasing and decreasing the estrogen/progesterone levels.
But yo uhave to be very careful you dont miss it as it is low dose you need to be diligent so you are protected against pregnancy!!!
It was fine (dont think i can use it while BF) but the only thing i didnt like was the low libido due to the static hormones.
But i didnt get any migraines, acne, mood swings on it and my periods werent bad either
Ask Dr is Diane might be suitable (Juliette is generic I think). I took this years ago and it was the most tolerable pill out of all of them. Good luck
I had a Mirena fitted in December 2006. I'm probably having it removed to TTC this summer, though we're not certain yet.
I had bleeding for about a week after it was fitted (had it fitted on day 6 of my cycle, but my period had stopped the day before), then intermittent spotting for almost a year. That was annoying, i'm not going to lie, but it WAS getting a tiny bit better every month (started off having spotting for 18-23 days when AF was due, it slowly got less and less with every month) and by December 2007 i was having 2 days of spotting when i ovulated and 7 days of spotting as AF. I am on my heaviest AF day today and i'm wearing a 3-thickness homemade cotton liner which is barely marked. We DTD last night with no mess.
I LOVE my Mirena, and i am so glad i got it. I don't know what i'll do after #2 because we think we want #3 quite quickly afterwards, but we shall see. I'll certainly be having Mirena fitted continuously rather than being sterilised once i'm finished having babies.
I have been on Levlen ED and later Microgynon 20, and my doctor wants me to try the Mirena or try a different pill, one that is on PBS, as I was paying something like $35 for each prescription. I don't mind taking the pill. I went off it recently because I tried skipping a period as I was moving and I didn't want the moodiness or cramps, but I ended up getting AF anyway. I was afraid to rely on it in case I got pregnant. Perhaps I can give the Mirena a go. If its not working out, I can get it removed. What do you think?
If you do get Mirena, unless you have terrible symptoms (depression etc.) DO try to give it a go for at least a good few months. There were several occasions in the first year when i got so sick of the endless spotting i seriously considered getting it taken out, but in the absence of anything else that is as effective we ended up waiting it out and i'm SO SO glad i stuck with it. It might feel like a rip to spend a whole year with the annoying bleeding going on, but for me the following year of normality without ever having to worry about pregnancy made it more than worthwhile.
I have been on Microgynon (was fine, but i had high BP due to weight gain and came off it), the minipill (VERY irregular on it - first period was 27 days late and i was PETRIFIED i was PG - DD was only 5 months old!), depo (had two shots (so 6 months officially "on" it, bled constantly for nearly 9 months, terribly depressed, no sex drive, gained nearly 6kgs) and Mirena. I have gained weight since having it fitted but it is 6kg over 2 years and i KNOW that my diet and exercise of late has been far more of a factor because the first year i was training for a half marathon and only gained 1.8kg which was probably muscle. And i'm able to lose weight too, so it's not having a massive impact in that way.
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