Sorry I’m posting for traffic. I’m not particularly knowledgeable about contraception but need some advice. It’s not for me it’s for DS’s GF. She’s 18 and NC with her mum.
Shes’s confided in me that she’s having terrible problems with contraception. Her mum took her to get the implant 4 years ago when she was 14. Ever since she’s been bleeding virtually daily. Family planning clinic told her to take the combined pill alongside having the implant but the bleeding never stopped.
She went today to have the implant removed as she’d had enough and has come away with the mini pill.
It seems on the occasions she has gone she hasn’t been advised much about her options - maybe because she’s so young possibly.
She’s worried that because she’s bled so much for four years she’s completely ‘messed up her body’ and is upset she has somehow made herself infertile with all the hormones (I reassured her this is very unlikely), she doesn’t know if she can / should immediately start the mini pill (she took her combined pill this morning) or leave a gap?
Should I advise her to see the GP or practice nurse? She’s always light headed and often feels nauseous- I’m assuming from the blood loss?