Microgynon and possible urinary probs, opinions please !!!

[march2011]

In the last 12 months I have been on 6 different pills, all have affected me in different ways, have been on microgynon for 3.5 months and thought it was ok. Had actaully lost some weight on it, and had very few headches (I am a headache sufferer usually), but in the last few weeks, cant pin it down exactly I have started to feel a bit short tempered about things that i know do not matter, also emotional for no reason which is just not me, also am feeling like I just dont really care about anything.

In the last 6 weeks I have become sexually active again after a few months, used condoms but have been having problems with cistytus twice and a bacterial infection. Between the cistytus episodes I have felt "not right", urine has been a bit stingy, and whole area a bit sore, have been checked for EVERYTHING, but everything is clear, including what the dr very tactfully described as a strange discharge (which wasnt strange for me, maybe slightly heavier than usual).

Have been thinking about things and now wonder if I may not have been feeling completely right since I went on the microgynon, but was so pleased with the possitive bits of it that i didnt realise. I have been trawling for ages about the stingy urine/pill links and cant find any, had anyone else had this ? I think now my only option is to stop taking it for a few weeks and see what happens, hopefully will feel more possitive in general, and will not be parronoid that new bloke may think Im making up reasons not to have sex with him.

Anyway, any thoughts will be greatfully recieved as I am just lost.

I took microgynon for 12 years, with very few drawbacks. One of them was recurrent fungal infections (it would burn if you pee on an infected area) which got worse on the11th year. Hence my stopping it.
Have you been checked or treated for candidiasis or any other infections? When was your last smear?

Thats quite interesting, I have been checked for everything, and it all came back clear, last smear was around a year ago. Did the problem go away when you came off it ? Ive not taken it today, so I am going to call it a day, I can always go back on it again at a later date if I want to, but I am thinking it looks like I am just not suited to the pill anymore, dispite 9 years on 1 brand, and me ignoring blinding migranes every month, which was why I came off it, Im kind of wondering if it would have been easier to just put up with them.

microgynon does dry the area IYSWIM. may a gel would help?
I never resolved my problems, I stop and had DD1, now after DD2 I too old for the pill.

This had never occurred to me, but maybe ...

I was on microgynon for years before DD, no problems I associated with it but I did have recurrent bouts of bad cystitis.

In the process of having DD it became apparent that I had PCOS so afterwards I was switched to a pill which would help with those symptoms - first Dianette (which made me depressed) and then Marvelon (no problems at all) - and all through being PG and the 12 years thereafter not a twinge of a UTI. I drank cranberry juice every day throughout pregnancy, having heard that UTIs were more likely and assumed that had flushed me out but maybe the microgynon was implicated.

schrodingers, I didnt know that about it being a bit drying, that may explain the stinging, and general discomfort, my drs only suggestion when i mentioned it (after being rather dismissive), was that \I could rub in some ky or somthing, but that didnt seem a very satisfactory long term answer.

Gimma, ah-ha, so there could be a link, I was searching the net for hours last night and noone else has mentioned anything, but people may not think of it as things tend to just change slowly I guess, Ive always been really careful with cystitis provention as I used to get it badly years ago, have always done everything "properly", ie cranberry etc. The whole thing makes my already very low sex drive even worse as I just dont want anyone touching me around that area, so am hopeing that without the microgynon everything should slot back into place, as it were. Ive never heard of Marvelon though....maybe an option in the future.

I don't think Marvelon is widely prescribed. For some reason its particularly helpful with PCOS but apparently carries greater risk of blood clotting than some other pills. So before prescribing, my GP ordered a set of tests to check for susceptibility to clotting (and wouldn't have prescribed to a smoker for sure).