Experiences of POP

[Georgiemcgeorgeface]

Am in my 6th month of 'persevering' on desogestrel and day 16 of spotting and light bleeding. Pretty much from starting taking it I've spotted on and off. I keep hoping it'll settle. I went on the pill due to painful heavy periods not for contraception an I'm wondering if I should just forget it?!
Can anyone share their experiences please?

Gynae put me on pop (zeletta) thinking it would help my horrendous heavy periods. It gave me awful acne and I bled pretty much continuously -sometimes extremely heavily, some times light, sometimes just spotting- with just the odd days with no bleeding. I think the longest bleed free was a record of 18 days. At the end after 5 weeks of continued heavy bleeding with no break I stopped it. My iron was so low ( despite prescription iron tabs 3 X a day) that I was ill. I took it for a total of 5 months.
I kept getting told ‘give it time, it will settle’ but I think your 6 months is plenty of time.

3 months for me. Hated it. Spotting and completely unpredictable. Switched bsck to combined and took a while to settle down after that.

I'm too old for combined (41!)Am going back to Dr next week to discuss. I darent stop taking it as it was so bad not being on anything but lm reaching the end of my tether now!

I was extremely lucky with POP, also moved from combined due to ripe old age of 43! I had 5 or so days of spotting st end of first pack and nothing since. Am 5 months in. Hope it settles for you very soon.

God I wish it would I'm so sick of it. Dr suggested the coil if not but I really don't fancy that

I had the same problems with the mirena coil - endless bleeding for the whole 9 months I had it in. I was begging them to remove it in the end. I don’t know why they thought POP would be any different.

Does the dr give your tranexamic acid for your heavy periods?

You’re not too old for combined - if your bmi is under 35 and you are a non smoker with no migraines then it’s fine. Even with some of these risk factors you can use if for heavy period control.

You could try a different pop - noriday May well suit you better.

Do consider a mirena coil, it’s the gold standard for heavy periods because it gives the biggest reduction in blood loss.

Good luck.

They didn't suggest anything other than the pop or coil. My preference would be to try another brand of pop but I don't know if they'll prescribe

You can take the combined pill up to age 50 as long as you aren't overweight, dont smoke and don't have high blood pressure.

Norgeston and noriday are alternative mini pills too

Well I don't know why they won't let me take it then as I'm a healthy weight, don't smoke (quit 5 years ago) and don't have high blood pressure

www.womens-health-concern.org/help-and-advice/factsheets/contraception-older-woman/ maybe try a different gp

Honestly I'm two weeks into the POP and I swear I feel pregnant .... sore boobs, nausea, headaches generally feel absolutly tubbish.

@Hannay my boobs were so sore for the first few months! And hard like when you're preggers. I thought it would never stop.... but it did

Confusing title - POP is a common acronym used for Pelvic Organ Prolapse!

I started taking Cerazette 18 months ago I found that the first 6 months were the worst for bleeding/spotting after that it gradually slowed to really light spotting and the last episode of spotting I had was at the beginning of November. I have been period free since. It took just over a year to completely stop but if you can stick with it it's worth it.

@littlecabbage I didn't know that!
@TeenagersandFurbabies thanks for the advice I'm going to persevere

So I was at the drs yesterday with horrendous palpitations and dizziness! Told to stop the POP immediately! I have never felt so horrendous on a pill before!

@Hannay sounds awful! Hope stopping works for you

Got pregnant on it. 😱