To wonder why are some women completely intolerant to hormonal contraceptives?

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Why are some women completely intolerant to hormonal contraceptives? im one of them and ive always wondered, every attempt at the implant, mirena coil ended up in me being constantly on a period, and very anaemic, i was on copper coped slightly better on that, i never got an explanation whenever i asked i got shrugged at, and it was one of those things. lots of clever people in relative jobs on here im wondering if anyone knows??

@roarfeckingroar

Because our bodies are balanced with the right hormone levels for life (unless something is wrong). I don't know how pumping ourselves full of hormones is ever going to be fine. I refuse to do it anymore.

In that case why do so many women suffer from PMS and other symptoms?

Before I was on the pill I was a screaming banshee for one week every month followed by feeling dizzy, fainting and being unable to string a sentence together once my period started.

The hormones used in contraceptives are synthetic ones rather than natural ones.

I am very glad hormonal bc is an option because an unplanned pregnancy can be a disaster. However, I am skeptical that they have truly been given the proper due diligence. So many women suffer problems from hormonal birth control. I can’t take it either. Every one I tried led to horrible migraines.

@D4rwin

I think the research into female hormones has only scratched the surface and it's tried to reduce a complex symphony to one of those wind up music toys you get for pennies.

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I just permanently cried when I went on the pill as a teen. It messed so badly with my mental health I thought i was losing my marbles.
The next time was 10 years later and I felt suicidal within 3 days!

I was on the combined pill for years. I loved it.

But then I started getting migraines with aura, so I was told I couldn't have it any more.

The implant made me bleed every 10 days or so and made me very down (I stuck with it for a year - these weren't just settling in problems).

I've tried two mini pills. One made me feel quite ill physically. The second made me suicidal.

I miss my combined pill.

But that said, I feel so much better when I'm not taking anything.

They're a bit of a blunt instrument. My mood was completely flat on them - not down but definitely no ups, either. I bled 3 weeks out of 4 and had no libido when I wasn't bleeding.

I bled constantly on the pill for 9 months and so had to come off it. I also had severe side effects from antidepressants - so much so that I'd rather live with the anxiety instead.

Same as @Callardandbowser - spent years as an insane, depressed, suicidal and dissociated teen, but the second I came off the pill in my twenties, literally within days, I felt like a completely different person. Went back on after my first baby and felt like that teen again. GP said, “No, it can’t be the pill, these ones don’t affect moods.” UH HUH SURE THEY DONT

Same with hormone coil too. GP didn’t want to remove it, had to beg, felt better within a day or two.

Bodies and hormones are far too delicate a balance to take for granted that this generic lump of synthetic hormone will press the button to make everything ‘right’ in our complex individual systems. V frustrating.

Hormones are massively powerful chemicals that affect all systems of the body. It’s more of a wonder to me how they don’t seem to affect some women badly.

It annoys me that they’re touted as a sticking plaster for all gynae ills, rather than the actual cause of the issue be correctly identified and rectified. If also annoys me that women aren’t warned that for some if can take many months for fertility to resume after stopping. This can cause issues when older women want to ttc.

I’m the same. I get migraine with aura so I can’t take half the contraception as it’s increased risk of stroke
I had 2 mirena and they fell out of me. I have huge fibroids, hormonally fibroitic boobs and bled for months on the mini pill. I take tranexamic acid only now and got sterilised

Oh I also had the copper coil which was just as horrible and I am 40 and waiting for menopause!

Progesterone is the depressing, moody, angry hormone. Oestrogen is the happy hormone. Broadly. Lots of women are progesterone intolerant so it can really mess with mood. There is no way to tweak the amounts of different hormones and some women just end up getting too much progesterone or reacting badly. That’s my understanding anyway. If you google progesterone intolerance there’s lots written about it.

I just don’t feel good when on the pill

Decided not to use any hormone contraception after I had ds I don’t like putting more hormones in my body

I can't tolerate any of them. Pill makes me feel down and kills libido, even POP. Mirena coil make me feel awful and also become slightly incontinent!!

Having periods month after month after month for decades on end is hardly natural either - it’s not surprising that so many women end up with catastrophic PMT or dysmenorrhea.

Its astonishing that so many of us have had terrible experiences, as far as mental health it didn't send to extreme but definitely depression, but how many wouldn't be depressed bleeding constantly and feeling drugged and emotional with 2 young children? im definitely worried personally condoms can break, the MAP doesn't work effectively on plus size women, i dont particularly want the copper coil again, hormonal is a no no,DH is not really considering the snip and im too young to get sterilised really, blus i don't see why if DH won't consider something reversible i should consider something permanent . so yeah....

Combi pill gave me near-constant UTIs. It was by chance that my doctor discovered this after years of misery. Mini pill is the only one that's worked, no side effects and no period, win win!