To ask you what contraceptive you use?

[Skinit]

I don't know what to use!

I'm 38 with two DC...I reacted very badly to the pill as a younger woman...tried many kinds over the years and found they made me feel sick...put on weight etc..and hven't used it for about 8 years. I can't ABIDE the thought of a coil or an implant and assume the injection would make me sick like the pill.

After DC2 who is now 3 I went right off sex and so contraception was barely an issue...but now I'm back to myself and don't know what's best.

At the moment we use condoms but neither of us likes them and we had two occasions lst month where we failed to use them.(stupid)

What can I DO? Dh mntioned himself getting the snip but for some reaon I don't like the idea! I don't think he's that keen either.

I didn't like how the pill affected me when I was younger. As soon as our family was complete, DH had the snip. We are very happy with that.

Mirena seems to be like Marmite (love or hate). I admit I am a stone heavier since I had my first one fitted (6 years ago), but I am 48 and have also had a chronic hip problem which has turned me from a marathon runner into a walker in 2 years. No periods=great.........and like WhipMe I can report a great improvement in (bedtime) satisfaction.

Twilight - Raw garlic? Seriously? What does that do? and how do you use it?

I have just had a copper coil fitted. Been spotting over the last 3 weeks since fitting. It's a bit sore on and off but largely ok. Weird having sex without condoms, its been condoms all the way for us for 6 years!

Can I ask those Mirena folk what it is that makes sex so amazing? Is this something I can look forward to with the copper one or just a feature of the hormones in the Mirena....?

I am 40 and have had the implant for 2 years. DH says the reason you dont get PG on it is because you bleed all the time.

42 days of bleeding!

I think I might consider being sterilised but I am cross about it as I want DH to have the snip and he will not even consider it! I have 2 boys of 6 and 9 and DO Not Want Anymore children ever.

We use condoms as well. So much tidier and it means I can roll over and go to sleep and DH has to sort it out!

Belgrano, think she's joking! As in, eat raw garlic, OH won't want sex?

I have just liberated myself - after nearly 25 years of being on the pill (excluding ttc and pregnancy) I have stopped taking it. I told dh I didn't want to be responsible for it anymore and he has 3 choices- condoms (less mess for me ), a vasectomy (which would be embarrassing for him apparently) or no sex. Watch this space!

On the good side, I have just had a normal 5 day period rather than an 8/9 day heavy one so I'm happy. Roll on the menopause!

DH had a vasectomy.

I was on Microgynon for years, with no obvious side effects , then Cerazette for the last 3 years since ds2 was born. But I have just booked to have a copper coil fitted.

I can be a bit forgetful about taking the damn thing and recently had a pg scare which freaked me out worried me and made me realise how much I don't want to have any more children. Plus have done 20+ years of hormonal contraception of one kind or another and I'd like to see if my libido will return! (I think DH is looking forward to finding out too...)

Cerazette!!! It's great. No periods and no side effects for me. As an overweight 41 year old smoker it was that or condoms (which are a faff and too damn small)

diaphragm.

Having it fitted was one of the most embarassing things I've ever done!
She measured me and that was OK, then I had to practice inserting it myself while she was on the other side of the curtain. We talked about congestion charges in London while I squelshed away with KY praying I'd be able to get it in the first time.

Anyway, we now have a 2 year old as a result, so maybe I shouldn't be saying we use the diaphragm, but more that we tried.

They do ask you whether a pregnancy would be a disaster because the failure rate it relatively quite high.

nb. We are of courses delighted with our DS!

I like that it's not hormonal.

I am not we are TTC, but contraceptive girl has other plans

The only thing I loved about Mirena was the no periods and no getting pregnant. For that I was willing to put up with the large weight gain, constant PMT and the personality change (I became a lot more vague and emotional, found it harder to think rationally). What I didn't know about then is that when I wanted to have another baby, it would take 6 years of abnormally light periods, erratic (possibly non-existent) ovulation, low hormone levels and infertility before DD3 finally decided to put in an appearance. I get constant PMT on the pill. I guess hormonal methods are not good for me. My sisters have the same problems, as did my mother in the 70s. It must be a family thing.

yes Northern, I was joking

Dh agreed to a vasectomy, but strangely has not managed to get that appointment with the GP .
So decided on a copper coil and unfortunately they couldn't get it in, cervix was not letting anything through, even though I've had mirena before (mirena was ok but gave me painful cysts)
So it will have to be condoms for a while until they have another go with the coil.

Nothing, we've just started TTC.

But just come off the pill
Started with microgynon, but like lots of people it turned me into a crying, shouting monster!

Then tried Marvelon and Yasmin which were better but I don't plan to go back on the pill if/when we need to start thinking about contraception again.

Sounds like the copper coil could be a good option for me...

Just getting to the end of my first implant (due to come out in Sept, a month before I'm 36.) I would like Essure, but suspect they'll make me have at least one more implant.

On the upside, I've not had a period in 10 years, as I was on Depo jab before the implant.

I also have been diagnosed with PCOS, when I was 18, and found that both pills I tried - Dianette then Microgynon - made my periods seriously heavy and the PMT was awful.

Im on implant, any form of pill was horrible horrible horrible. Remembering that feeling of sickness makes me feel queasy now.

One of the lucky ones as no bleeding at at on implant!!!
It has evened out moods, emotions etc. I have no good days or bad days, iyswim!
Unfortunately, the implant has killed my sex drive COMPLETELY. I am considering having it taken out and just using condoms. Had never thought of the copper coil. Thanks guys!

Re: progesterone only pill....
I took this when i was breastfeeding a year ago - I was in some pit of depression, only for a short while thank God. but that was bad enough - lying on sofa not even able to look at my kids in the eye. I could not move. Just lying there in zombie state, paralysed almost, crushed and crying uncontrollably. Horrendous. Thank God DH recognised it as coinciding with me taking the pill...as i thought it was PND

Now have started Microgynon....just this last week and feel exhausted. almost like i am pregnant - major fatigue and feel nauseous and light headed....Going to give it a few more days....but can't being doing with tiredness on top of normal knackeredness of having kids!!!

Copper coil for me. LIBERATING

Last contraceptive used = the morning after pill.
Success rate of morning after pill when taken between 49 and 72 hours after unprotected sex = 58%
Weeks pregnant = 11/12.

Wont ever make THAT mistake again.

Like others have said, microgynon gave me ridiculous mood swings, in my case it happened within a couple of days of me starting to take it. I spent many years on Loestrin with no appreciable side effects. I managed about two weeks on the implant before I really wanted it out after about two weeks and managed to get it out after 24 days - I completely lost my libido, thought I was getting very early onset Alzeihmers and had very low mood on it. I can't take the combined pill at the moment because I have highish blood pressure so I was put on micronor which is fine except I get really bad PMS. I don't think I have much of a choice though since my DP and I really hate condoms - I'm slightly allergic to latex and he's too big for non-latex condoms (even if this wasn't the case we'd still hate the things). I'm tempted by the idea of the copper coil but I get quite heavy and painful periods so I'm worried that they'd get even worse. Even though the mini pill doesn't quite suit me at the moment it's worth it since it makes my periods lighter but I've only been on it a couple of months so I could get worse - other hormonal contraception has majorly disagreed with me within a few days so I think I might be ok.

I have had a copper coil for nine years. Mine is a twelve year model.

I love it so much. Only think about it occasionally and check for the threads. My period is no heavier than it used to be, although it is four days instead of the three it was. I do not have horrible cramps. In fact I rarely have cramps at all, and I used to have them something fierce.

As someone already said, it's liiberating! Although when this coil's time is up it is DH's turn to take care of contraception and he has decided he'll be getting the snip.

I had just a bog-standard coil for years and years. No hormones, no fiddling, no worrying: just a bit of embarrassment every five years or so.
Brilliant method of contraception.
(Especially liked the fact that I wasn't pumping hormones into my body that shouldn't be there - have an idea that they are the source of a lot of evil.)

Withdrawal. I decided DP should take the responsibility.
A/ I'm fed up of filling my body with hormones and crap.
B/ I'd like another DC. He's not so keen.
Withdrawal is the method he chose.