I’ve been getting spotting between periods for years. Have tried having my cervix cauterised which didn’t help, so have had some scans and investigations and it doesn’t look like anything is wrong. So the consultant thinks it is hormonal, which I would agree with as I get very bad mood swings for a day or two when ovulating and before my period, and also still get cystic acne every month.
So he said my options are to go on the pill or get the mirena coil. (Or a hysterectomy which seems quite extreme). I am nervous to try the coil as I’ve read such mixed reviews of it, seems to be either brilliant or horrendous but if bad, really bad.
I could of course do nothing but it has got to the point now where I finish my period, have about 10 days respite, then start bleeding lightly until my next period which is very heavy and lasts about 6 days. Having lighter periods,no bleeding in between and no spots would be great! However I never went back on the pill after having kids as didn’t really want to be putting hormones in my body again.
In the past I was on Yasmine for a couple of years which helped my skin enormously but made me very low, then I was on one which gave me horrendous headaches and I was throwing up from it (but can’t remember which pill it was), then went on dianette for about 7 years which I think was ok but I don’t think they’re keen to prescribe that anymore?
So doctor prescribed me microgynon today. He said to try it for a couple of months. From what I understand the hormones in microgynon are similar to those in the mirena coil so if im ok on microgynon I should be fine with the coil.
However I have then come home and read lots of reviews online and loads of people says microgynon made them depressed, gave them bad headaches, bad acne, put on lots of weight etc. It sounds horrendous!
I know with a lot these things people are more likely to review it if they’ve had a problem but it has still freaked me out.
I need to start it today or tomorrow (before day 5 of period I think) or wait a month so part of me thinks I should just get on with trying it. But I’m going away for a few days next week and don’t want it to be spoilt by headaches, being sick etc but then the following month would be school holidays so if it affects my mood that would be awful for the kids!
I don’t know what to do. I could try and get an emergency appt tomorrow at the doctors and get a different pill but I’ve tried reading up on different ones and there are so many and people seem to have such different experiences.
I’ve now got myself into a state of decision paralysis and really don’t know what to do. Please help!