Am 36 and have been on the pill since age of 19 apart from when we were ttc and when I was pregnant. I was on a combined pill for over ten years til it gave me serious headaches then moved to progestogen only one, which stops my periods almost completely apart from annoying random spotting and makes my breasts very very sore.
This week I have decided to sod it. The breast tenderness is getting too much now and tbh I worry about the long term effects of messing around with the hormones in my body including a supposed increased breast cancer risk. I feel really anxious about having things like coils put inside me so the pill has been the most obvious route but now I feel like I'm tired of shouldering all the risk of contraception and if dh wants sex he can provide his own barrier!!
Don't mean to be flippant but considering how rarely we have the energy to do it nowadays it doesn't seem to be worth potentially risking my health. Does anyone really know what the risks are with long term contraceptive pill use?!
AIBU?
To sod the pill!
Lottie5 · 05/01/2015 03:06
Kicking the pill was one of the best things I've done. Age 15-35. Turns out I'm not a sex hating bitch after all! It really is sold as a solution, but for so many people it causes more problems than its worth. It's the "like it or lump it" attitude of the docs that really annoyed me.
The one that made me say "Fuck it!" Had me bleeding for 3 weeks out of 4. Great contraception, but nearly ruined my relationship.
Be warned though, my sex drive came back with an enormous bang! I was like an animal! Keep plenty of barriers around IYSWIM... 
I had a Mirena coil for tears, had no problems with it (until it needed to come out) and it worked really well. I had it removed for TTC purposes and the time has come where I need to start thinking about having another one put in but some reason though I really don't want to. It wasn't nice having it put in, it definitely wasn't nice having it taken out and I have no urge to rush to my GP to have another. My DH keeps mentioning if and bringing it up in conversations - I've done pretty well as fobbing him off so far 
I feel like telling him to sort his own contraception out and buy some condoms instead of expecting me to go through all the horrors.
What will you do instead?
I need to sort my contraception out but don't 'do' hormones because of MH problems...
Are condoms reliable enough?
Maybe I should start my own thread 
Congrats Mamma! No I wasn't planning on going unprotected just using condoms on the once in a blue moon occasions!! Dh won't have a vasectomy - think deep down he hasn't completely ruled out a second child although I pretty much have!!
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