Birth Control Smirth Control
** DISCLAIMER ** If you don’t want to read about my lady bits, turn that shizz around. Consider yourself warned.
Jimmy was a birth control baby.
I was religiously taking Y*z when he was conceived. Every morning. At 10am. I had a 9 month old at the time, and NO intention of getting pregnant for at least another year.
Sigh. Doncha love how things work out?
After Jimmy was born, I had to think long and hard about what kind of preventive measures I wanted to take. Condoms are always an option…but a drag. What’s the point of being all married and monogamous and stuff if you still have to suit up? Silly.
I decided to do with an IUD. Not the Mir*ena, which I had heard caused some weight gain (HELL NO), but the non hormonal copper IUD that could stay in for up until 10 years. My insurance would cover it in full (HELL YES) so why not? I dutifully did my research and off to my 6 week postpartum appointment I went to check on my 2 stitches and have that little T shaped baby preventer inserted.
Insertion didn’t suck, but I wouldn’t say it was better than eating Rocky Road ice cream either. After almost 30 hours of labor 6 weeks earlier it was a walk in the park.
My periods got heavier, crampier and longer. Suck, but they had been super easy and light to start with, so I sort of assumed they were just normalnow. Then about 14 months after insertion sex started to hurt. Like HURT. I started bleeding almost every time we had sex. My cramps during my cycle were horrendous. My thighs would ache and all the joints in my legs would scream during my period. The week before my period I developed contact dermatitis on my lips. Super unfreakingcomfortable.
Finally I got fed up and I went to my OBGYN this last Monday. He removed my IUD and started me back on the pill. He told me that I was showing signs of a copper allergy (WORST LUCK EVER? THIS GIRL) He told me that my anatomy is just not great for an IUD, something about the way I am shaped and yada yada yada…at that point all I could think was :
OHMAHGODICANTGOONTHEPILLIAMGOINGTOGETPREGNANTANDIJUSTCANTHANDLETHISSHIZZ.
My internal dialogue was not in a good place.
So I am on the pill now.
I am scared shitless.
I want another baby…but not anything soon.
Wish me mother loving luck. Imma need it.
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OMG good luck to you. BC works wonders for me and I’ve never gotten pregnant on it and i’ve been on it now for 10 years…you know, cept when I actually got off TO get pregnant. Get on Seasonale. It’s only 4 periods a year and it’s higher dose of hormones so you’ll prob NOT get pregnant!
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Oh Ally,
I laughed and laughed at this post! I’m off the IUD and on the pill again and you scared the crap out of me in NYC talking about how Jimmy was a BC baby.
GOOD LUCK! <3
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I’ve been on the pill for about six years now? I was on Y*smin at first and I HATED IT. It screwed with my emotions hardcore. I actually thought I was bipolar.
I’ve been on Aviane for the last 5 and I love it. My periods are super light. Like, three days. And my horrific cramps are gone!
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Condoms really aren’t a big deal, and they don’t affect hormones or anything else. Easiest solution right there.
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