Anybody here knowledgeable about contraception?

[Askingabout]

Sorry I’m posting for traffic. I’m not particularly knowledgeable about contraception but need some advice. It’s not for me it’s for DS’s GF. She’s 18 and NC with her mum.

Shes’s confided in me that she’s having terrible problems with contraception. Her mum took her to get the implant 4 years ago when she was 14. Ever since she’s been bleeding virtually daily. Family planning clinic told her to take the combined pill alongside having the implant but the bleeding never stopped.

She went today to have the implant removed as she’d had enough and has come away with the mini pill.

It seems on the occasions she has gone she hasn’t been advised much about her options - maybe because she’s so young possibly.

She’s worried that because she’s bled so much for four years she’s completely ‘messed up her body’ and is upset she has somehow made herself infertile with all the hormones (I reassured her this is very unlikely), she doesn’t know if she can / should immediately start the mini pill (she took her combined pill this morning) or leave a gap?

Should I advise her to see the GP or practice nurse? She’s always light headed and often feels nauseous- I’m assuming from the blood loss?

I believe I read that a slightly smaller copper coil is now available on the NHS, a useful choice for nulliparous women. It is an option, I agree about the double appointment with the GP in the practice that has the most interest in this area of medicine, and if she would like you to go with her? The GP may want to examine her and ask other questions about her bleeding etc., take bloods etc.

But, maybe it would be reassuring for her to actually use condoms carefully with your son for a bit and to learn how to track her cycles as they come back to what it normal for her. Not as contraception obviously but to learn about her individual body (although if using condoms could also avoid the more likely fertile days as well). I've done that in the past.

Depo injection can stop periods altogether

Ref comments about fertility not returning for a year

At 18, I assume that she is not wanting a child at her age

@FurthestUPNorth depo can also cause bleeding (I spotted constantly with it) and is known for weight gain too. And you can't just get it out your system easily if it doesn't suit