Thread: Contraceptive Choices

Oh sorry to hear it hasn't worked out for you Janey. I'm still on Microgynon and still finding it ok. Only this month I've got horrendous PMT, not cramps or sore boobs like the first month, but I just can't stop crying.... Usually this happens the night before I get my period, but it's been days... I'm putting it down to PMT anyway. I'm having a pretty rough time at the moment so that isn't really helping, but usually I can cope with stress better than I seem to be...I guess we'll see what happens after my period.

Hope you get sorted hun, let me know how you get on at the docs xxx

aww hun it could be due down to u having a lot on i feel a bit snappy as well and tearful at times i asked on a site where u ask the doctor told her the problems ive been having with the pill she said i need to ask my doctor for a lower prostegen pill (cant spell lol ) looked this up but cant seem to find any info on this ??

since going on the implant ive had time of the month for almost a month now!
ive been so grumpy too, worse than i used to be when i took nothing for it

I know this is an old thread but just thought I'd add my tuppence worth anyway...

I went on Microgynon when I was 17 and it didn't agree with me at all either - my blood pressure was high and I was all over the place emotionally. So they put me on Yasmin but that was no good either as I pretty much just bled constantly. Finally, third time lucky, they gave me Cilest. It's a god send!

I did come off Cilest for a while a few years back and tried the Depo-Provera injections but it was no good for me, constant bleeding again and having to get double doses etc.

So, Cilest seems to work best for me. But everyone is different

thanks Lady_Amalthea but i tried that one to but no luck for me so decided to get sterilized back in january dont no why i bothred as all my pms symptoms have just come back getting a weeks relief then all the stomach cramps start and the bloating its a nightmare doesnt seem to be anything i can do ,if anyone has had similar symptoms would be usefull to hear from them to see if they have found anything that helps

I'm getting desperate too find a good babybanisher too lol never tried the pill as I'm ridiculously forgetful and I'd just end up pregnant immediately (also apparently ludicrously fertile! Husband only has to walk past the bedroom door and I catch!)

I had the implant for 7 yrs but never again!! My periods were a nightmare and I gained weight. I was stroppy moody tearful and generally miserable but that could have been the three young children!! (3 in 3 years....condoms were such a bad idea!!) now I have a coil but I hate that even more!! My weight gain stopped an my mood is much improved but again that did sort of coincide with the youngest starting school haha. But now my periods are regular as clockwork but horribly horribly heavy. I've had bouts of anemia which I'm sure is down to the heaviness each month! They last for 8 days every 28 days. Cant swim or use the gym for that whole time and some months I have to buy maternity towels! Tampax are no good they just can't cope with the job lol

Anyway I don't want to be sterilised if possible as I'm only 30 and I may want another child in the future and with three youngish kids one with special needs I simply can't be out of action for even a few days! Think I need to put up with my coil for a bit longer then when I've come to terms with never having another baby send the husband off to get done!!

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u poor thing couldnt imagine having to go through that each month ive been sterilized but 40 and deffo didnt want any more kids and it doesnt stop yr periods being heavy either .
i would give the pill a try even if u have to set an alarm of some kind to remind yourself to take it (thats wot i used to do) it made my periods a lot lighter and shorter and no more pain x

Maybe your right! I am a grown woman now so really I should be able to remember a little pill!! But ye gods....pregant again?? Terrifying lol wonder if I can keep my non hormonal coil but take the pill purely for help with the periods?? Oooh an my skin!! Im so prone to acne its horrible!! Would it work? Think I need to toddle off to the docs again!!

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im on the implant, for 10 monthes i had no period at all (Yay). however twice in 2 weeks ive had a perdion, each one lasting about 4 days, and giving me agonising stomach pains, dizziness and constant sickly feelings. they are also very very heavy the pains got that bad ive passed out from it, even with taking cocodamols!
is this normal? or could have somehow knocked the implant out of place?

i had to implant to stop me getting these strong symptoms as they were hell to put up with, it was that bad id be in tears of pain and couldnt even go to work. i dont get the pains often now, only when im on, and thats just random times now.... not regular at all