Best short term contraception that isn't condoms?

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What's the best short term contraception that isn't condoms? Short term, as in - we'd like to TTC next year so not keen on the coil. I'm quite overweight so not sure I'd get the pill. What are the injection things like?

Thanks in advance.

Oh no, just read the injection can affect your cycle for a long time after you stop taking it (nhs website)

How about a copper coil?. Not many side affects and fertility normal as soon as it is removed.

Thanks for the ideas

Mini pill if ur overweight - that's what I have.

Do they still prescribe the cap? If so I'd go for that, although bear in mind it's not very spontaneous as it takes a good 5 mins to put it in. I used to put mine in at the beginning of the evening and just assume we'd have sex at some point, LOL.

Otherwise, mini-pill.

Don't even think about the coil if you haven't already got kids, those things are designed to last 10 years. Also, my sister was recently persuaded to have one by her GP. She has never had kids. They had to cut open her cervix with a scalpel in order to get it in there. She was completely incapacitated by pain for 2 days and was still suffering a good week later. She now has what looks like an infection and it may need to come out anyway, after all that.

I think something like that cap would work. Do you really have to go and get measured for one though? I thought I could just buy it off Amazon like one of those period cups things - the name has just totally escaped me!! Mooncup??

Have a look at the nuvaring. You put it in at the start of the month, remove 21 days later.

I loved it and periods returned to normal straight away after I stopped using it. Only downside was I had to order it in advance at the chemist and keep them in the fridge.

It's a low dose hormone device so you might have to check out the advice about weight.

You say you're looking to TTC next year. That's not too far away; would it be a disaster if that happened early?

If you'd be ok with the possibility that you might get pregnant now, you could try natural family planning. The plus side is you'll be very in tune with your cycle when you do want to TTC next year.

POP, the mini pill or Jaydess
www.jaydess.co.uk/en/general-public/what-is-jaydess/

You might like to have a browse of the threads in the MN contraception topic:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/family_planning

which is fairly active, and having all the threads together makes it easy to find experiences of just about every method available.

Properly fitted diaphragms are a big of a rarity these days, but can still be found (try via FPA rather than your GP). I have read about one that is meant to fit anyone, but I don't think I'd feel confident with it.

Nueva ring might be one to consider.

Thanks for all of the thoughts

Westcountrywoman - it wouldn't be a disaster but there are various reasons we're waiting (jobs, money etc)

I've tried to track my cycle before but failed with taking my temperature.

Am thinking about buying an Ovusense. They are horrendously expensive though!

Diaphragm would be good for short term. You can put it in upto 3 hrs before sex so that helps with the spontaniety issues.

Need to get the fitting checked but that's not a problem.

Personally I'd go with withdrawal if you trust the partner. Not good if you Def don't want to conceive but reliable enough for short term. I did for a year or two in between pregnancies

As if you would get your cervix cut open for a coil fitted! Really, no Dr would do that, scaremongering there, however, it's true that the Os is wider after childbirth so meant to be easier to insert, even after, it can still be tough requiring expanders and more furtling about than you'd like.
Does being a bit overweight stop anyone from being able to have the pill, or is this a fear you have of putting more weight on? I lost weight on the pill, but I did put some on having a baby - you will next year if pg as planned so I wouldn't worry about weight.

NICE guidelines state POP goes to 45, and COC often stops at 40, but can go beyond (up to 45) depending on your individual risk assessment.

Ovusense looks like the latest incarnation of the Persona.

That was one of the less reliable forms of natural family planning, to the extent now that far more units are sold when marketed as an aid to conception not as part of NFP.

For NFP, you need proper instruction, and the lowest fail rates come when you combine temperature, mucus and other symptoms if you have them (realising you are much hornier when fertile being one unfortunate one). You also need to track your cycle for a few months do you get to understand it really well before relying on NFP.

Thank you for calling me a liar Smorgasboard , I take it you're a doctor then? How many coil fittings have you performed, exactly? Or perhaps you know my sister and you were in the room when she was being hacked open?

I have a cap. its quite good, you don't feel it. It doesn't get used much but is there in case I run out of pills before I remember to get more. (i struggle to put it in myself so DH does it for me - god love him ) I'm 36+5 weeks pregnant at the moment so no need to remember anything - always a perk im not pregnant due to an ill fitting cap by the way

I have the implant , fertile from the day after its removed

Beware of anything hormonal as many of the ones that say you are fertile from the day removed actually just mean there has been no statistically significant affect on fertility, bearing in mind normal fertility is measured as up to 1 year to conceive. hormones are designed to prevent pg after all - logically could affect fertility in a way that they don't consider relevant to report. Also some methods they may just not know yet. I remember the days when depo was sold to women as normal fertility after finishing, now advice says can take a year to return and some report longer anecdotally.

Never called you a liar. It's quite understandable that a person could misunderstand procedures. Just saying anaesthetising the cervix and using dilators on the Os would be one way to insert a tight fitting coil whereas, "slicing someone open" would be regarded as a surgical procedure and necessitate at least a trip to theatre. Irrelevant either way as OP has her reasons for not wanting the coil.

I'm a doctor who fits coils, pocket saviour.
Your sister is either exaggerating or has misinterpreting what happened.

is misinterpreting, not has