Contraception: The Poll

tell me about this nuvaring thing! side effects? have just gone off the pill again because i kept forgetting to take it, plus i hate the is-this-making-me-mental-or-not feeling when i'm on it (i.e. is it just shit going on in my life or is this fake hormone making everything feel 10x worse than it should).

i looked at the website (this thing is not even available in NZ) and it sounds great, but i'm always dubious about anything containing hormones.

Side effects are next to nil (I had none when I used it) because the hormone dose is HELLA low. It doesn't have to have much, cause it doesn't need to travel dar in your body, basically.

I have had side effects (mainly just zombie or robot "feelings") while on every other hormonal method.

the problem with pill side effects for me is that they're not blatantly obvious and come on slowly, so i don't realise the change till i go off it (eg. i'm managing my anxiety/stress/etc about living in a new country much better since i went off it). i hadn't been on the pill for about 2 yrs and went back on right before i came to the US... pretty fucking stupid plan, really, but i procrastinated. so then i didn't know if it was this new pill fucking me up or the fuck that i was uprooting my whole life.

Tough to tell in most situations with that stuff, yeah. Just ride it out.

lol 'the fuckfact that i was uprooting my whole life'

haha i read it that way anyways

haha..me too

i know a couple girls who went on the nuvaring and couldnt stop crying for days and days so... ymmv

IUD and cervical cap are not the same thing. Isn't a cervical cap similar to a diaphragm?

xpost, I don't think that's an expected side effect of...anything.

AAAAGGHH, IUD and Cervical Cap were supposed to be on different lines!!!!

And yeah, a cervical cap is similar to a diaphragm, but thicker, rubber and fits directly, snugly over your cervix.

i havent been on the pill since 04 but even then it was only for 2 months. before that i think it was early 90s. i become a complete whiney bitch when im on the pill.

well im always kind of a whiney bitch so lets super whiney super bitch

plus i dont give a shit about shorter periods. who cares.

i've been pretty emotional on it, but there's been some mega shit going down so it's hard to tell wtf is up anyway

i doubt it's pill-related, though. it's low-dose (mircette). I was on a very high dose BC method (depo) long ago, and it just made me cold and emotionless.

xpost otm, mine's like 3 days tops anyways

one of life's biggest lols is that BCs often lower your sex drive

I'm all about no periods. this is one of the reasons I took the pill for so long. But so far I have had no periods with my IUD either.

i mean, we can land a fucking man on the moon

xpost

hey how long have you had an IUD and which kind do you have, susan?

i thought they banned iuds years ago because it was make ladies infertile. i guess theyve fixed them since then. don't all you non period chicks worry that its screwing up your fertility should you want babbies down the road?

Nah, it doesn't hurt you at all not to have a period, look at the observant Jews -- they stay pregnant or breastfeeding pretty much their entire adult lives, and it doesn't seem to stop them from having 11 children each.

I back the ring 100% but I just went off it because I miss the hormonal high of ovulation, when every masculine characteristic in the world looks magical. Keeps life interesting.

Have researched IUDs but it seems the new ones are also hormonal in nature, there's at least a little bit of hormonal affect in addn to the chemical (copper or whatev). I think if I were going through the pain/discomfort of having an IUD inserted, I'd want to be totally artificial hormone-free...?

they still use copper? i thought the copper was the problem?

The problem was, I think, only with one brand (the Dalkon Shield) and had to do with the string or stem that protrudes from the uterus, and the kind of string they were using could harbor bacteria and give it a way to travel erm, up. At least that's my understanding. Nothing to do with copper that I'm aware of.

I've got some contraception: twenty minutes of cybersex with my boyfriend (who is at home) while I am at work. No fear there, except my boss leaning over my shoulder... of course I now want to skip out early...

I use the pill, I love the pill though I suspect it's contributed to weight gain. I am also always tickled when I go to buy more and I use our shared account as per my boyfriend's insistence!

hey how long have you had an IUD and which kind do you have, susan?

Only six weeks. I have mirena, the plastic, hormone kind. I mostly didn't want to mess with having another pill to take everyday. It's also more reliable and cheaper (assuming you have insurance to cover it).

The insertion hurt like hell for about 20 seconds and then it was done.

I know I've talked about it endlessly on other threads but there's nothing wrong with skipping periods. The obgyns I've had for the past six or seven years have had no issue with it. Also, the period you have on the pill isn't real anyway.

I skipped periods on Depo for about 4 years, and it definitely didn't mess with my fertility. When I went off of it I promptly became pregnant.

I use the pill, I love the pill though I suspect it's contributed to weight gain

Man, about the halfway point of the pill pack I want to eat everything all day. I suspceted this was making me gain weight, but I weighed myself and had lost 4 pounds.

Pills be makin' women crazy and shit.

One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small

now that's just plain mean (funny though).

Which is this small pill?

trimspa baby

dexamphetamine

ru 486

Yeah, that doesn't stop conception, if you can believe it! And it's not called that anymore unless you're French.

it was a response to this:

Which is this small pill?

― I'm right right and you're wrong left (Susan), Monday, September 22, 2008 3:46 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you goof

oh haha, i had it bookmarked so i forgot that shit even happened
carry on

ok

an abortion would make you smaller

I find it kinda sad that in the past I've actually used withdrawal (several times) and morning after pills (once) as a contraceptive method. In both cases it was by mutual agreement, but it's still not a wise thing to do at all. What is it about sexing that makes you throw all rational thinking down the well?

i get it now n/a!!!!! lol

oh god i used withdrawal for 12 years and it rocked but i suspect i had a good luck charm hanging over me

When my wife and I first hooked up, there were 3-4 times there with no birth control at all. Considering how fast she became pregnant when we decided to start trying for a baby, we shudder to think of the bullet we dodged.

one of life's biggest lols is that BCs often lower your sex drive

maybe that's what makes it work....

my kingdom for a male pill that will not cause most of my body hair to fall out

and/or my shapely bum to atrophy

Form of contraception on first date with current partner: none!
Times ejaculated into: 7

...blame me being drunk and not saying "condom?" before he entered me. I figured he'd pull out, he figured I was on the pill, and I was too embarassed after the first time to admit it, so I held my breath and kept going. The date lasted about 30 hours, I went to work and straight to the clinic afterwards. Got on the pill but didn't think to get tested... we're still together almost 3 years later and I have since been tested for STDs, all clear. Phew. Never pregnant ever, and came clean to him sometime around six months in when he was reading my emails (we were being silly.. reading each other emails to friends about our first date). I had emailed a friend telling her about the embarassing mistake and didn't think of it when we were reading old emails..

rhythm worked for years until we got (purposefully?) sloppy. Now we are parents.

Now looking for non-pill, safer-than-rhythm method...

do something nonhormonal, maybe diaphragm or cerv. cap

xp ok good to know - no plastic poking out yet!!

thank you, thank you very much, xpost

I never updated what happened with my IUD a year and a half ago because I didn't want to freak anyone/everyone out buuuuuttttt, it turns out that it hadn't turned around and poked through my cervix, but the t part of it had actually perforated my uterus and was poking out the top of it (way to read that CT scan, doc!). They said it probably happened when it was inserted 4.5 years earlier. I had no adverse side effects, no crazy cramping or bleeding, didn't get knocked up, and it came out super-easily, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(my original post referencing this is upthread of LL's link)

they original dr didn't do an ultrasound to check the placement once it was first inserted??

none of mine ever have

i think that perforations usual cause a lot of immediate bleeding and mine inserts over 300 a year and the ultrasound isn't standard practice for her.

Kaiser is mostly shit but the np did do an ultrasound to make sure she'd placed it correctly.

Yeah, u/s after insertion is not standard of care. Most of the time, it's gonna be in the right spot.

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Behind every successful woman is 14 even more successful women texting her "Stay strong you're gonna be so glad you got the IUD"