Progesterone only pill

[midnightgirl]

Hi, I just changed from the combined pill to the progesterone only pill. On day 3 of taking it my period started, the dr did say they may be all over the place for a while, but do they settle down. What are other people's experience of them. I don't want loads of periods as I get bad headaches with them!

It's hard to say as varies for everyone. I was having a 'period' every five weeks but they were lasting 12 days! My sister on other hand, her periods stopped completely which is one known side effected, so as I say affects women differently. I have gone back recently onto the combined pill as I couldn't handle that amount of bleeding.

My periods stopped and then after a couple of years I had a Niagara of a period and bled all over the supermarket floor and then no period again for a couple of years.

Yeh it's hard to say isn't it, just I just finished a heavy period on the combined pill and then day 3 on the po pill another heavy one I feel shattered, hope it settles down.

I really didn’t get on with the pop I tried. It gave me 2 heavy periods every month and I also gained a lot of weight. Why did you change from the combined? Was it not agreeing with you?

I had to change because of my age 46! I hung on to it for as long as I could. As I was good on it and it helped my periods, but my blood pressure started to up and well I'm too old for it now so had to try it. I hope to god it settles down

Your bleeding pattern can be irregular up until 6 months of taking it. Whatever pattern you have after 6 months will remain and it likely won't improve after that. Spotting and irregular bleeding is common at first especially after switching pills. When I took it I did spot for a while and had no bleeding most of the time. You should give it a few months to see how you settle with it.

I went from having short (2-3 days) but v.painful periods on combined to having very light and painless but sooooo long (10-12 days) on the POP.

Took me a good few months to settle down- if i took one late i would get spotting a few days later. Been on for about 2 years now. Seems to have 'built up' so no spotting if I take one a bit late... but if I completely missed one, I imagine there'd be a bit of a bleed.
If you can get into a good habit of taking at a regular time each night, then i'd say it's excellent. No periods for me. No weight gain. No side effects. But you have to get into a reliable habit/ routine and take it round about the same time every day- weekdays, weekends and holidays etc. Maybe set an alarm or reminder on your phone?

Thanks, yeh I'm pretty good at that especially with having other pills to take. Fingers crossed it will settle. Thank god it is the weekend

I had irregular but often bleeding for the first six months then periods stopped altogether.

I've been on it 5 years now and occasionally if I take a pill too late I'll have a teeny bit of brown spotting for a day but haven't bled for 4.5yrs.

Very frustrating at the beginning but absolutely worth it in the end.

I was on it for a year for heavy periods/large fibroid. Bled for 28 days when I started it then nothing for a year. Gained some weight but already overweight so hard to tell how much.

Out of the blue had a period from hell. Could sit for 5 mins and when I’d stand then I’d soak through pad, clothes, down my legs. I thought I was dying! Large clots the size of the palm of my hand (sorry for tmi).

It stopped after I was put on some injection to induce menopause. Not sure what doc will suggest next but it wasn’t great for that year. Sorry not very helpful.

Sorry.. “it was great for that year”

I've been on Cerazette or whatever pop I get given of similar type and never have periods ever. Been about 6 years now and no issues at all.

I had to switch to the POP when the combined pill was giving me real mental health issues and made my already horrendous periods even heavier. Personally I still get a period every month but they are very light, not painful, and generally easy to contend with. However they are irregular. I've been on it over a year and they still haven't fallen into any sort of pattern. Sometimes I get two in one month, sometimes I don't get any for 8 weeks. But for me that's still an improvement over what I had before. Persist with it for now and see how you get on.

I switched from combined a few months ago. I had a few days very very scant blessing about 4 weeks in, then nothing since. Just the result I was hoping for!

Sorry, posted too soon. They say it can take around 3 months to settle, give it a go!

I'm on day 13 of pop. I'm taking it alongside using a coil to hopefully help with really bad pmt. Started taking it on cd3 so was already bleeding. Now bleeding again already 😭😭. I'm expecting irregular bleeding at first and was told to hang in there for 3-6 months to see if it settles. It could be a long 6 months at this rate but hopefully will be worth it if it stops me bleeding at all. I'm almost 45 so combined pill was a no-no.

I'm on month 5. Shaky start with quite frequent bleeding varying between heavy and light. Forth month no bleeding for over 40 days and then about 5-6 days of spotting. I'm still hoping it settled as I read it can take 6 months. I still get some pms symptoms but nothing like I was before. I went on it due to heavy bleeding and significant pms

Thank you ladies I guess will just have to see how it goes. Fingers crossed 🤞