Page 2 | To draw your attention to the personality-altering effects of Microgynon?

ShelaghTurner · 06/05/2014 08:52

Absolutely hated it. Nearly cost me my marriage but tbf it was a fanfuckingtastic contraceptive because I would have knifed DH if he came near me.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 06/05/2014 08:55

Mycrogynon made my depression so much better. It completely eradicated the horrific pre-mestrual low and made my mood much more stable.

meditrina · 06/05/2014 08:57

I was OK on microgynon (many years ago). The doctor switched me to another and I just bled the whole time. Then I went onto Logynon (a triphasic pill) which also suited well and is perhaps one to try if you want to swop but bleed on other formulations.

CabbagesAndKings · 06/05/2014 09:05

I have only ever been on Micronor and the implant. Micronor was absolutely great- when I was breastfeeding. When I stopped BF, I started to get a bit anxious and low before AF, but nothing too bad, and to be honest I've always had bad PMT anyway.

However the implant...oh my goodness, the implant.

For the first few months it was OK, but then it just built up and built up..I was seeing the world through a gray haze, I didn't care about anything, nothing held my attention, concentration went, was exhausted, piled on weight, anxiety absolutely skyrocketed. Awful. I used to have panic attacks at the thought of going to the shop where I'd been buying my milk for the past 10 years. Made an appointment with doctor to get it removed, but was stuck with it for another 3 months.

In the 2 months since having it out, I feel like myself again. I am once more the confident, energetic, glass-half-full person I once was. I have got a new job, and adapted to it just like that. I also have started in quite a demanding voluntary role for a charity, with no worries.

The odd bout of the mini-pill aside, I will never, ever touch hormonal contraception ever again.

Damnautocorrect · 06/05/2014 09:07

I said to my first useless gp after ds was born that the pill was causing me problems and she said 'they'd all be the same so there was no point trying another'.

I changed docs, changed pill and it was fine. Until they discontinued mine and now I've got to find another that suits

Callani · 06/05/2014 10:58

I've been on Microgynon for years and been fine with it. I was interested in the implant for ease but the nurse practioner suggested I try the pill equivalent of it first just in case. Thank goodness I did - 6 weeks of headaches, mood swings, crying, constant breakthrough and I took myself off it and insisted on going back on to Microgynon.

FruitbatAuntie · 06/05/2014 11:05

I was moody, depressed and irritable on most pills I tried.Then I tried Mercilon, which cleared up my acne, made me lose a bit of weight, lifted my depression and generally seemed like some kind of miracle pill. Didn't stop me getting pregnant, mind (though to be fair it did for eight years before failing, and I suspect my IBS affected its absorption). After I had DS1 I tried Cerazette, which was similarly great for me - it has the same progestogen in as Mercilon.

They are all different. Microgynon turned me into a psycho. Celeste gave me awful spots and boils. Quite often side effects do settle down after a couple of months, so it depends how long you can stick it out for.

TheStitchWitch · 06/05/2014 11:23

In June last year I had a non hormonal coil fitted after years of feeling not quite right, I didn't realise just how much of me hormonal contraceptives had hidden over the years until they were completely out of my system.
On hormones I was stressy, anxious, tired, achey, had headaches that made me feel sick and were so awful that it felt like someone had hit me in the head with a hammer, I had zero sex drive, dh was practically a monk I couldn't bear himtouching me and dreaded any sexual advances.
Since having the coil fitted I feel amazing and so does dh

I feel robbed in a way, because the pill, implant and depo jabs that I'd tried over the years obviously didn't suit me and turned me into a hormonal mess.

I'm so glad I decided to have a non hormonal coil, just wish I'd done it sooner.

unicornpoop · 06/05/2014 11:44

I asked the nurse to remove it but she refused and instead put me on microgynonas well. I only managed to get the implant removed when I wanted to get pg. even then I made an appointment for removal and received a letter from the surgery telling me my appointment had been cancelled until I had a meeting with the GP to discuss my reasons for wanting it removed as I was under 25. The doctor said they won't remove it for any other reason than wanting to get pregnant which shocked me!

After trying microgynon and femodene for three months each and having horrible mood swings and being very depressed I decided to try the implant.

I had the same trouble with it and kept being told to give it time to settle in (after a year?!?!) and kept getting told they wouldnt remove it when I asked them to. I told the nurse I was going to cut it out with a razor and she finally agreed to remove it. Felt loads better within a week and dropped a stone within 6 weeks without changing my diet. Their reluctance to remove the implant made me extremely wary of any contraception that I couldnt stop using myself but not having any option except condoms was really getting me down after about three years. So i had the copper coil 3 or 4 months ago. I know its not supposed to be hormonal in as much as it doesnt contain any hormones, but it is having am effect on my hormones. Ive had spots which is unusual for me, very swollen tender breasts and longer heavier and more painful periods. A few small mood swings when im on my period too, but nothing like when i was on implanon/the pill. I googled it and it turns out copper affects estrogen levels. Im going to keep it though, because theres no other option except hormones and condoms.

TheWanderingUterus · 06/05/2014 11:44

Similar experience to others on here with the implant. I was either completely blank or at the extreme of a negative emotion. I went up four dress sizes, was interested in nothing, couldnt sustain any interest in anything, had zero libido, struggled with insomnia and panic attacks. Oh and I thought I was pregnant every month because I still got pre-menstrual symptoms but no period. It also affected my digestive system which may have led to my subsequent later diagnosis of IBS.

I moved abroad unexpectedly just after I had it put in and no doctor would take it out for me. I came back to the UK after three years when it was coming back to the time it needed to come out. In those last six months before removal the symptoms decreased slowly, obviously as it started to run out. By the time it was removed I had lost two dress sizes and was starting to feel more normal again.

MrsWedgeAntilles · 06/05/2014 12:08

Contraceptive nurse here. Quite shocked at the HCPs who wouldn't remove the implant. Fair enough we should let you know about the fact that symptoms can get better with time and to offer you medication to get you over the worst parts but to refuse to remove it at all is pretty dodgy.

I can reassure those of you with erosion that its completely normal and usually nothing to worry about. The name is pretty misleading, nothing has been eroded, its just a layer of cells, most practitioners I know use the term ectopy or ectropian. There are two types of cells, one which grows inside the womb and one which grows on the cervix. We all have a junction between these two types of cells somewhere in or on the cervix (that's what's sampled when you have a smear test). Those of you with an ectropian just have the inside cells growing further down the cervical canal than people without a visible erosion.

AmberLeaf · 06/05/2014 12:09

I also lost weight after having implanon removed, I lost a stone and a half in 6 weeks with no diet changes!

It made me rage. I remember shouting about something, I was so wound up I could feel my head bulging, it was scary, irrational and after that I made the connection and had it taken out.

Preciousbane, when I got pregnant on microgynon I was told I musn't have been taking it correctly, but I absolutely was, same time every day without fail.

Ive stayed away from hormonal contraception for the last 5-6 years and feel much better for it.

Preciousbane · 07/05/2014 23:34

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Doinmummy · 07/05/2014 23:40

My DD is on Rigevidon ( cheaper version of Microgynon) she has the most violent outbursts and is under a psychiatrist and on AD's . Do you think it could be pill related ?

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Doinmummy · 07/05/2014 23:44

I have a mirena and have no periods at all now.

Doinmummy · 07/05/2014 23:45

Oh sorry you said non hormonal coils

ThatBloodyWoman · 07/05/2014 23:48

Microgynon was the only contraceptive I had no problems on.
Mini pills, mirena, depo -all horrible side effects for me.

Tweasels · 07/05/2014 23:59

I was awful on Microgynon. I had no idea how much it had changed me until I stopped taking it. I was on it from 15 until I was 24. I thought I was an irrational, over emotional, jealous misery. Stopped taking it 3 months before getting married in anticipation of TTC and became calm and rational again.

I bled continually on Cerazette, and became rather aggressive. I hated taking that.

I won't have any form of hormonal contraception now. I like being me

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 08/05/2014 01:04

Vrtra, ask your HCP if you can "chain" three packs together without a period break, if that would suit you better.

sallysparrow157 · 08/05/2014 01:11

Different contraceptives do different things to different people. I was on trinovum, I was fine for about two years then suddenly on the last week of the pack I was suicidal, mainly locked in the bathroom sobbing for a week then back to normal. Went on the implant and my mental health has been the best it has ever been. My friend went on the implant and was so awful on it her husband was saying 'I know we don't want and can't afford a fourth child but it would be better than this!' and she basically hunted down someone who could take it out for her
Microgynon is no better orworse than any other hormonal contraceptive

fukkigucci · 08/05/2014 01:43

I absolutely refuse to take hormonal contraception now. I was on various pills over the years, the absolute worst being cerazette. DH and I almost broke up when I was on it. I had zero libido, was moody, and full of rage for no real reason. It took at least a year for me to realise that it could be the pill. We've been using condoms since. I don't love them, but I want sex again and I'm much calmer and happier.

FullySwindonian · 08/05/2014 02:07

People only post their horror stories on the Internet about contraception, never the happy stories. Is a quote from someone I bear in mind.

vrtra · 08/05/2014 02:34

doctrine I have just done a 3 month chain and feel fine, no breakthrough. However no bleeding and it's the last day of my 7 day break... Should I be concerned

vrtra · 08/05/2014 02:35

I did have a crying fit yesterday though so perhaps I will have a bleed in a day or so!