Ladida

[summer_sparrow]

I have read lots of websites, but they are less than helpful. Do/have any of you use/used FAM for birth control? I can't do hormonal stuff anymore. It's unpleasant and uncomfortable and I hate the person it turns me into. STDs are not an issue and condoms are extremely uncomfortable for me, so I'm looking for alternatives.

Thanks you guys!

Now I scurry back to work (from whence I am not actually supposed to be posting to "blogs" but oh well.)

Comments

[syncopated_time.livejournal.com]

Are you using the lowest dose hormonal birth control possible? I was on ortho tri-cyclen for years and was an utter BEAST because of it. My doctor switched me to Aviane/Alesse (which is the pill with the lowest hormone dose available on the market) and I was better within one cycle. Different methods and doses of hormonal birth control will affect you differently. One pill is not like another and the ring or the patch are not like the pill.

Getting an IUD means finding a doctor that will give you one at your age, not having had kids. Medically, there's nothing contraindicated but old habits die hard for some docs.

[sparrowinsky.livejournal.com]

I was on Yaz, but I forgot to take it sometimes if my phone was off (I had the alarm to take it programmed in my phone). It made me grumpy, lethargic, and completely apathetic about sex...

What with the forgetting and all, I thought the patch might work better since I wouldn't have to freak out if we had sex and I forgot the pill-- but the patch is even worse, which is what spurred this in the first place. I just took the last one off-- this past month I haven't slept well, I've been horrible to the boy, to the point of trying to get him to break up with me (that was... definitely not one of my better moments) and not wanting to do anything, least of all sex. :(

I figure I'll just go with condoms for a while-- it'll be nice to just be off of hormones, period, for a little while, and noveldevice gave me a few suggestions for my problems with those, and then make an appointment and see what my gyno says...

Thanks. :)

[cyprith.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hate Yaz. -.- I'm no help with the birth control besides condoms thing, but Yaz killed me. I turned into a raging psycopath. Good to see I'm not the only one. XD