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To ask what contraception you’re on...?

73 replies

Bubblemonkey · 22/02/2020 22:22

I’ve currently got the implant but it’s driving me potty. I have a stoma & apparently can’t take the pill with it because of the potential of not absorbing it properly 🤨 despite being here, I’m childless & wanting to avoid coils for that reason.

Halp me

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marbler · 22/02/2020 23:06

Mirena could for me. No periods since it was put in and no side effects at all! I love it

marbler · 22/02/2020 23:06

I mean coilBlush

annie987 · 22/02/2020 23:07

Together 23 years and have always used condoms!

MeadowHay · 22/02/2020 23:15

We always use condoms apart from when trying to conceive. I know we are rare in that though.

Atm I'm on Millinette 20. I started it a couple of weeks ago and have been bleeding ever since. Which is a pain but I'm hoping it will settle down within the next few weeks. I was briefly on Microgynon a couple of months ago which I also bled for a full month and then after the 7 day break bleed I didn't bleed again after that so it sort d itself out. Was a pain to bleed for a month though. I had to come off that though as it was giving me loads of very bad migraines and I had the worst I'd ever had on it.

I was on Loestrin 20 for years in the past which suited me just well. I used to have a gap for a bleed every 3-6 months depending on what I was up to and would take a pregnancy test if no bleed was forthcoming. I never had any side effects and very rarely forgot to take it. Well, the only happy side effect was light periods and the ability to hardly have any and vaguely plan when I wanted them. It was ace but the manufacturer has discontinued it, I am gutted.

I was on depo provera injection for a year or two a few years ago. I did love that for convenience and had no periods on it I don't think. It did make my acne a bit worse though which was a pain. There are also risks regarding bone density so it's not recommended long term. However the main reason I wouldn't go on this again is coming off it was horrific. I had the heaviest bleeds I'd ever had (and I had previously had heavy periods) randomly on and off for fortnight at a time for the first 6 months or so. It was so bad I had permanent anxiety about going anywhere for access to toilets and anxiety about leaking, a super+ tampon would be leaking after an hour. It cost me a bomb in sanpro and made me anaemic. I would never go on it again for that reason.

ANiceLuxury · 22/02/2020 23:19

Sterilisation.

Burplecutter · 22/02/2020 23:21

Sayana press and it's bleedin glorious. Or should I say zero bleedin glorious. I get a year's supply in the summer and self inject at home every 13 weeks. Piece of piss.

PhoneLock · 22/02/2020 23:21

Mirena could for me. No periods since it was put in and no side effects at all! I love it

One of the problems I had with the mirena was that it hurt my husband. To the extent that he refused PIV sex.

isurvived3under2 · 22/02/2020 23:25

Condoms. Waiting for DH to have the snip. We're very careful. I'm done with hormones!

BeBraveAndBeKind · 22/02/2020 23:27

DH had a vasectomy a year ago and it's great.

Before that we'd used condoms for 12 years or so. I had a coil before that which was horrible and I was on the pill before we had the DC which made me fat, spotty, angry and killed my sex drive.

Verbena87 · 22/02/2020 23:28

Currently on the combined pill and prior to that POP but also used a diaphragm with spermicide for a bit and despite feeling a bit retro found it vastly better than condoms. That said, the failure rate isn’t ideal if avoiding pregnancy is vital for you. Really don’t think there’s a perfect answer, it’s annoying.

PeterPanGoesWrong · 22/02/2020 23:30

I am on my third Mirena coil. It’s bloody marvellous.
I used to have awful periods, one night having to get up 7 times to change my huge night time pad and doubled up giant green Lillets I went to my doctor and he told me get the coil.
I don’t know why your so against the coil, it’s wonderful. I don’t know I have it as in no period pain, no swellings, no bleeding for 15 years now.

Russellbrandshair · 22/02/2020 23:31

Copper IUD. It’s heaven. No hormones, no babies, no side effects, all the spontaneity- love it!

Russellbrandshair · 22/02/2020 23:32

One of the problems I had with the mirena was that it hurt my husband. To the extent that he refused PIV sex

I keep my strings long for this reason. When they’re cut short they get spiky/ painful

MyNameHasBeenTaken · 22/02/2020 23:33

Being single!
Not everyone's choice I suppose?

EC22 · 22/02/2020 23:33

None, I track my periods and ovulation and use withdrawal during fertile period. I wouldn’t mind another pregnancy though, but this has worked very well for me.

Lipsygirl · 22/02/2020 23:34

I’ve been on everything apart from the coil, currently on the mini pill.

Implant, made me bleed for 8 months
Injection, no periods but after I stopped it took me 18 months to conceive
Mini pill, no problems at all

PhoneLock · 22/02/2020 23:35

I keep my strings long for this reason. When they’re cut short they get spiky/ painful

It hurt him when they were long. My doctor suggested that they were cut short and after that, my husband point blank refused sex.

EdgeWithNoReason · 22/02/2020 23:47

Menopause and the snip. Its fantastic Grin

datasgingercatspot · 22/02/2020 23:47

I don’t know why your so against the coil, it’s wonderful. I don’t know I have it as in no period pain, no swellings, no bleeding for 15 years now.

Because in about 15% of users it causes negative side effects and if you are one of those you are fobbed off for months or longer with 'you need to let it settle'. If you're sensitive to progestin it might cause problems. My h could also always feel the strings, long and he could feel them, told to have sex to make them curl up but they were hurting him. For some insertion is really painful and not everyone has heavy periods.

Russellbrandshair · 22/02/2020 23:50

It hurt him when they were long

I don’t understand how? They’re as thin as dental floss and soft when long

tinyvulture · 22/02/2020 23:52

Copper coil suits me brilliantly - feel positively evangelistic about it - have had massive side-effects of different types with all forms of hormonal contraception I have tried.

Having it fitted was unpleasant, but not completely unbearable. I know it is meant to be worse if you haven’t had a baby (I had) - but no idea how much difference that makes really.....

Good luck!

WanderingTrolley1 · 22/02/2020 23:54

Rhythm method.

sootynsweep · 22/02/2020 23:57

None... at 45 years old I cross my fingers...

datasgingercatspot · 22/02/2020 23:59

I don’t understand how? They’re as thin as dental floss and soft when long

He's well endowed and the tip of his cock is sensitive Hmm. They didn't feel soft to him. They were irritating to him.

PhoneLock · 23/02/2020 00:03

I don’t understand how? They’re as thin as dental floss and soft when long

OK. Maybe he was just making it it up. Hmm

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