BE GENTLE WITH ME

Girl Talk Time...



What else is there better to talk about on a rainy Wednesday afternoon than birth control...Sorry boys.
So, I'm pretty sure I've now tried and trialled every method on and off the market, with no real success, well except the fact that they do seem to keep me baby free I suppose. Here's a re-cap of my forced infertile years.
It began in high school where I thought I might be pregnant, stressed myself out so much I lost about 40 lbs, stopped getting a period and hence was infertile.
Doc "Now just because you are not getting your period doesn't mean you shouldn't have unprotected sex, because there is a slight chance you can still get pregnant"
Me "Are you kidding me, I'm never having sex again for the rest of my life!"
Then the university years rolled around. Like most of my friends I stopped by the campus health clinic and was given a random estrogen/progesterone daily birth control PILL. After a few months of taking a pill every day, weight gain, etc I decided this wasn't for me and stopped taking it. I wasn't having sex anyways, so what was the point of polluting my body with added hormones. I hate estrogen. So ABSTINENCE was my new method of birth control. Until one day I realized this wasn't very much fun and had to rush to the health clinic for PLAN B. As if the judgmental lecture on safe sex from the 80 year doc wasn't enough to discourage anyone from using this pill, the warnings of side effects from the pharmacists and being told to call anytime during the night if the side effects were really bad were enough to make me never want to take this pill ever again. So back to the clinic to see about alternatives. This is when I was prescribed DEPO PROVERA - what at the time I thought was a miracle. 4 injections/year and no periods. period. The only problem is that after 2 years on this my doc tells me I have to stop taking it b/c it has put me at risk for depression, osteoporosis, blood clots, has increased my weight and acne and is not recommended for anyone. awesome. Then came the PATCH. This didn't last long. Super sore boobs, weight gain (see a trend...) and my favorite part, if it didn't fall off (which it often did), the edges of the sticky patch collected lint from my clothing making it look like I had something disgusting growing on my buttocks. Tres Tres attractive. So, fed up with this method I returned to the health clinic where I was told about this new method that had just came out that month...the NUVA RING. I was happy with this method for about two years, but now I've started experiencing some unpleasant symptoms, likely related to the hormones...After countless trips to the doc's office, scheduled transvag ultrasounds, consults, I think I've come to the conclusion (which I asked for 3 years ago, but was denied) I am ready to try an IUD. No hormones. No reminders. No babies. If this doesn't work I'm just going ahead and getting my tubes tied. This is ridiculous. That's all. Maybe just a lil TMI...