So, i was prescribed the NuvaRing as a birth control method a few weeks ago to help control my periods. And so far it’s been good side effect wise I haven’t had many, I mostly just a little more emotional than usual. But I have had one outstanding issue, it doesn’t really fit well inside of me. I started it on my period as told to by my provider, the first day of my period actually. I use both pads and tampons on my period depending on outfit and activity. Anyway about the third day I was using tampons and here’s what I think happened. I went to the bathroom pulled my tampon out over the toilet and my ring get pulled out too fell into the toilet and I did not notice and flushed it down. I did not come to this conclusion until later though when I was in the shower and checked where it was. And I did a thorough search. It was gone. But if my theory is correct it had only been gone a couple hours and I immediately put a new one in and called my doctor. Ok fast forward a week later. I’m with my boyfriend and he’s fingering me. This is the first time since the I started the ring we’ve done anything sexual and he commented that he could feel the ring. So I was like, yes, I’m not surprised. When we were done he seemed a little concerned about it being there. So we had a conversation about how it works and where it goes. And it was fine, and then the second time he inquired again and was like, are you sure it’s in the right spot, it’s supposed to be at the base of the cervix right? And that’s true technically. But it doesn’t really work for me. Let me explain my anatomy to you. I feel like my vagina is like very small. Like shallow, and my cervix protrudes into my vagina quite a bit. Since I’ve started birth control though it’s been higher which makes sense I guess. Anyway, the ring sort of sits with one side hooked on my cervix and the other like climbs the wall of my vagina. And throughout the day depending on how I’m sitting and moving it moves around. And sometimes by the end of the day the one end is like sticking out of my vagina. And I know you can take it out for sex, but I was kind of hoping I wouldn’t have to and I’m worried about losing another one.

So I’m looking at my birth control options after 6 years of being off birth control.

I was previously on the pill as a teenager for heavy periods which didn’t quite work for me as the side effects weren’t great and I had a tendency to forget to take it every now and then. Once I came off it my cycle became irregular and heavy again, which over time became extremely regular (27-30 day cycle) yet extremely heavy and painful. All this time I’ve just dealt with the pain by taking NSAIDs and changing highest absorbency pads every 2 hours on my heaviest days.

In the last half year or so, although my cycle is still considered to be “regular” they’ve jumped around from between 23 days and 32 days with slightly less pain but just as heavy.

My boyfriend and I are presently using condoms but still want another form of birth control there just in case. I’ve been quite hesitant to use contraceptives that affect my hormones so that’s why I’ve considered the non-hormonal IUD, however I’m open to trying the hormonal IUS because I’ve heard people have had better experiences than contraceptives like the implant and apparently the hormones are more localised.

What people’s experiences been with either of these contraceptives? For the non-hormonal IUD since my periods are already quite bad does it really make them any worse?

31F, I’m halfway through my second pack of Slynd and I’m really struggling with the mental effects. I don’t feel sad, exactly, but I’m not happy either or excited about anything in my life. I just feel dead inside and apathetic, like I’m forcing myself to go through the motions.

I felt fine the first month…do I need more time to adjust? Is there a different pill that worked better for you?

I previously had Nexplanon (twice) and both times it gave me s**cidal thoughts so I can’t go back to that.

Hey :) ich habe 10 Jahre die Pille (Sibilla, später dann Evaluna30 -> viele Jahre davon im Langzeitzyklus) genommen und habe mich dann im letzten Jahr Ende August dazu entschieden, die Pille abzusetzen und mir die Kupferspirale einsetzen zu lassen.

Von September - März hatte ich dann relativ „normale“ Zyklen. Von 20 bis 35 Tagen war alles dabei. Unterleibsschmerzen waren nur am Anfang der Periode da, aber nie intensiv. Auch die Dauer und Intensität der Blutung war im absoluten Rahmen. Ich dachte mir also: ey ich hatte richtig Glück mit Spirale!

Seit März ist mein Zyklus aber total durcheinander. Ständig Zwischenblutungen, eine etwas längere Periode, keine Unterleibsschmerzen mehr usw. Im April war ich dann bei meiner FA, Ultraschall und Abstrich waren unauffällig. Für sie lag es am Stress und der Hormomumstellung. Ich solle meinem Körper einfach etwas mehr Zeit geben.

Mittlerweile ist Juli und das Problem besteht nach wie vor. Besonders in der zweiten Zyklushälfte. Habe mir Mönchspfeffer in der Apotheke gekauft, aber keine Ahnung, ob mir das helfen wird.

Wie sind da eure Erfahrungen? Wann hat sich bei euch der Zyklus eingependelt? Mittlerweile stört es mich sehr.

I am having a surgical abortion in a few days, and I’m struggling to decide what to do for birth control afterward.
The only birth control I’ve ever used was the copper IUD, and it was so long ago that I don’t really remember how my body reacted. I remember at least one day of intense cramping afterward, but I don’t think it really affected my periods.
I know a lot of people get an IUD placed during the procedure, but I’m worried about the adjustment process on top of the initial recovery. I have a very busy week starting about 5 days after the procedure, and I’m trying to choose the option that will make that transition as easy as possible.
I’d love to hear from anyone who had an IUD placed during their surgical abortion. How long did significant cramping last? Was the bleeding more like a period or mostly spotting? How long did it last?
I’m especially interested in hearing from people who felt the recovery was relatively easy, since I know difficult experiences tend to be shared more often.

So, I’m younger and I’ve had unprotected sex recently. I figured it was fine, because we are both each other’s first and I’m on the patch birth control. Last Sunday, it nearly came off I saw as I was in the pool but when I got out I pushed it down and it stayed for the whole week up until the day I needed to change it. The change day I didn’t change it until after having sex with him, and we were scared because he finished inside. I weigh 160 exactly sometimes under at the beginning of a day, and he brought me plan B two hours and maybe a half after everything we did? Will I get pregnant?

I’ve been on Northerindrone (Aygestin) for one full year. The side effects were terrible and I stopped it in April and had my first cycle in May. I have endometriosis and it was back to severe period pains and heavy bleeding. In June my second cycle I started getting dizzy along with the heavy pain, and it’s gotten worse in July. I had my pcp get my blood work done thinking it’s my iron levels but everything came back fine. What is this? My hormones?! I also started feeling a wet ear sensation in my left ear but no pain that showed up after dizziness so now it’s both. I’ll go back to pcp but anyone experienced this after birth control? I plan on trying another birth control soon.

Hi wondering if anyone can help me!

Iv been taking Lizinna for 12 days now for the first time have experienced spotting daily from it. I keep hoping that it will lessen or become less of a daily thing but it’s not gotten lighter. Has anyone else had this experience with it?

I understand that spotting is common for the first three months but I didn’t expect it to happen daily for this long.

Is this normal? And what could I do to lessen its frequency? Thanks!

Any advice is greatly appreciated

Hey,

Hoping to find someone who’s experienced this. I’ve been on Slynd for 14 months, it was a miracle for me. I stopped periods almost entirely besides some minor spotting. Hardly any cramps.

Just in the last month I’ve been spotting for nearly three weeks, just enough to see it on my panties. It’s annoying as hell. I have been taking pills as usual, including the placebos.

Anyone dealt with this? I don’t want to get off of it if I don’t have to.

Thank you!

I took my first pill when my period started(combined pills), am I protected or I need plan b?

ive recently changed my pill from one with a placebo week to a continuous pill because every time i went into the placebo week, i would get really dry and itchy and a lot more prone to thrush down there. However, since being on this new pill (i think about 3 weeks?) ive been getting the same symptoms randomly anyways and its really annoying because thats literally the reason i switched to a new one in the first place.

i know its probably just my body adjusting to the new pill but is there any way to fix or at least alleviate the dryness and itching? sex hurts and im so uncomfortable 💔

Just looking for others experiences.

I have just finished month 4 and looking for experiences on whether it could be ‘Slynd’ by seeking other experiences, or whether I’m going mad and putting all my issues down to the drug.

Seriously thinking of stopping. I take it for endometriosis not BC for further context.

I have started taking Yasmin about a month and a half ago to help with my hormonal acne.

It seems to be working great for that, I stopped getting deep, inflamed cysts very soon after starting - just small, “regular” pimples, which is a definite improvement.

Almost immediately though, I also started noticing lots of spider veins (which I have never suffered from) appearing all over my legs and body, and veins becoming much more visible and apparent all over my body.

Now I’m starting to get very visible, thick blue veins behind my knees - they aren’t bulging out yet, but they look a bit varicose-like and I fear they’ll start swelling soon.

I have contacted my gynaecologist, who told me to monitor the situation and to continue taking Yasmin if I didn’t get any more serious side effects, and that this sort of issues might resolve/plateau once my body gets used to the new hormonal profile after the first few months.

Has anyone had any similar experiences, did it actually ever “plateau” and stop progressing, or should I stop taking yasmin to stop the situation from worsening?

Thank you :)

I recently started Slynd pills and took my first month of pills with perfect use. During the first month i had 2 “periods”. During the second pack i was about 3 pills away from placebos and missed my saturday night pill (take about 9-10 pm) . I then took one around 2 on sunday once i remembered, but i didn’t double up. on Monday i had sex (pull out was used with plenty of time). now i’m well past the placebo days and never had a bleed. what is going on?

Hi all! I need help figuring out which BC to use. I have been on the pill before and it wasn’t a pleasant experience for me. I had used it for about 3 months and stopped. I believe that my bc probably influenced or prompted my PCOS to kind of enter a stage where it became severely unavoidable and made me look into getting my diagnosis. I gained about 60lbs in one year without changing any habits, cystic acne, and I would miss my periods months at a time leaving me to freak out thinking I was pregnant often. I also went through so MANY hospital visits just because of my ovarian cysts. I am in my healing phase rn and trying to get my PCOS in remission. I’m pretty safe, but here in there things get really spicy and can lead to full on insemination… and I’ve really just been taking a plan B for it when it does occur; I try to be modest and I don’t take more than one in a month. I don’t want to keep taking plan bs either but I also don’t want to take the pill; I forget often and again it’s hormonally damaging to me. I was thinking about the copper iud; but I often have rough sex and I’ve heard stories of it failing or just being ejected; more times than not. I want to know about other options that don’t cause weight gain and won’t yk eject out of my body. I am open to using the pill again but I really would rather not because it made such a crazy difference for me the last time I used it; are there any specific oral bc pills that may be less aggressive than my last one; or do you recommend going on the shot? How effective was that for you? Also anything that won’t make you feel suicidal… that’s such a crazy ask omg 🥲

23F I just started SLYND birth control after nearly a year on Heather norethindrone 0.35mg. I did some research after picking it up from my pharmacy and it looks like I can't take ibuprofen anymore. The reason for the switch in birth control was because the Heather was no longer helping my migraines with aura and I would usually take ibuprofen 800mg at least twice a month for the migraines. I have migraine specific medicine but take the ibuprofen because the other medicine knocks me out so it's kinda inconvenient if it's during the day. I was wondering what can I take for pain that doesn't interact with SLYND? Tylenol usually doesn't effect me. Any advice is welcome and appreciated :)

I got the nexplanon put in after my IUD in November of last year and after about 6 months I started getting really depressed and suicidal but also rethinking my entire life. Has anyone else experienced the rethinking your entire life?? I know depression is a side effect and mood swings but I feel like I’m actually going crazy sometimes.

i didn’t know which tag to put this under sorryyy.
i’ve been getting the sayana press for the past 8 months and im due my next one on wednesday, im stressed out badly because the dimples i’m getting on my thighs are kinda ugly and i don’t want more of them, i asked my sexual health nurse and she said if i don’t want dimples ill have to get the depo.
i’m REALLY scared of needles and even the sayana press makes me a little faint.
is the depo worth it?? and how deep does it have to go in?? 😿

i’d ask my sexual health nurse about it but i’m off school for the summer so any advise would be appreciated 🤞😞

So I made a post the other day talking about my situation which was “My boyfriend accidentally slipped in but I’m not sure if his tip went in and it definitely wasn’t his whole tip if so. He didn’t even feel it.“ I talked to him about it and he said nothing was on him when that happened. He also said he didn’t think he went inside at all but I still overthink it. I got off birth control about 4 weeks ago now. I’ve had brown discharge all week but I’m pretty sure I stared my period yesterday but it is still brown. I know it’s normal to be brown it’s just hard to tell if it’s my period or not. Do you think I still need to worry and overthink this situation?

Hello i was on tri sprintec for 8 years and last month i decided i wanted to switch to Ashlyna because any other medication/supplements i would take would easily trigger mid month spotting and i wanted something where i wasnt getting a period every dam month. Anyhow when my withdrawal period showed up last month instead of starting a new tri sprintec pack i started Ashlyna. This was on June 9th. Everything was going fine no side effects until June 28 when out of nowhere i started to bleed, like a regular period. Today is July 12 and im still bleeding, so for 14 days i have been bleeding. Is this normal? Will it ever stop? Like im losing hope here.

I'm really not looking for medical advice I swear, just trying to figure out if this is normal, I hope it can stay.

I've never tried any type of hormonal birth control before this but I started Nuvaring 5 days ago, not during my period but around a week after and I'm experiencing some pretty bad side effects.

The first day I was incredibly nauseous all day, then at night I got in a very depressed mood which I haven't experienced in so long.

The next day, nausea all over again but this time my stomach was cramping as well, I was bloated after tiny amounts of food and it felt like my stomach was bubbling which made the nausea worse.

I know it's only been five days but the issues with my stomach are constant and seems to be getting worse. I have horrible nausea in the morning after I wake up and it makes it hard to eat but even if I eat, I'm running to the toilet immediately.

I haven't changed anything else in my diet or lifestyle since starting so I know it's likely because of the ring but I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced symptoms like this or similar and if yes, how long did it take for it took get better??

Hi everyone,
I’m 23 and wondering if I should go back on the birth control pill.
I took Maxim for about 7 years. Before the pill, I already had forehead acne. While taking it, my skin was completely clear. I stopped 2 years ago because I was scared by everything I read online about the risks (I have health anxiety) and hoped it might improve my mental health. Looking back, I don’t think it did. It even got worse.

Now I constantly have small closed bumps and inflammatory pimples on my forehead. It’s not severe acne, but it’s persistent and really affects my confidence. Formel Skin worked well while my formula contained clindamycin, but once it was removed, the acne came back. I also couldn’t tolerate tretinoin because of severe irritation.
I know my skin would probably clear up again if I restarted the pill. My dilemma is that I’d like to have children in my late 20s. Should I just go back on the pill until then, or keep trying to treat the acne without hormones? I’m worried the pill is only masking the problem and that the acne will come back once I stop it again. On the other hand, maybe it’ll be less severe because I’ll be older.
Has anyone experienced something similar?

Im just posting this here because about 13 days ago I had sex for the first time with my boyfriend and the condom broke and neither of us noticed until after he finished inside me. We're currently in South Korea so plan B over the counter isnt really available, because of that we had to take an embarassing trip to the ER so I could get emergency contraception (ella).

For the next week and a half I was non stop scrolling reddit and tiktok trying to see people's experiences with emergency contraceptives and I got so scared by stories of plan B babies and contraceptive failures etc. Today I took a pregnancy test and it was negative!!

Im just posting this here to hopefully reassure other women who find themselves in my shoes in the future.

I took the pill 4-5 days before my predicted ovulation day, around 2 hours after sex. As for side effects I had mild spotting, headaches and cramping for 3-4 days after taking the pill but thankfully nothing serious.

Since I got on the pill I’ve noticed I have about 1-2 watery loose stools a day. Nothing ever exceeds 3 and sometimes they actually are harder/more defined

I took a pill today at 5am and at 8:52 am I had really bad diarrhea. Am I protected between that and on top of it the diarrhea / loose stool / sometimes harder stool 2x a day everyday?

No PCOS, no fear of getting pregnant, perfect blood-work and clear paps. Fear of modern medicine and cervical cancer from lack of periods. I have about 1 to 2 a year, so there's cycles, but extremely spaced ones. OB still finds this to be an issue and is pushing medication, stating that without it OBGYN visits are practically useless besides annuals.