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#358050 - 05/02/11 09:48 PM
On Birth Control for First Time
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TangledWeb
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I just started birth control today. I've been a little worried about using it. I was prescribed Loestrin 24 FE 1/20. The biggest thing I thought Id have to worry about was weight gain, then I did a search online. Women commented about all these horrible side effects, like depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, mood swings, low sex drive.... I can remember what I put on the questionaire, but I suffer from anxiety and depression, and I think I have a low sex drive, also irregular periods so I may already have a hormone imbalance (low hormones)....ughhh...I should email the doctor. Oh and acne, hair loss, darkened skin on the face were other issues. I hate this, why does there have to be some many possible side effects. I hope I don't experience any of them. I wish I never had to go on it.
Am I overreacting? Should I tell my boyfriend to let me know if he notices any changes in my behavior? I initially didn't want to tell him because I didn't want him to thinks he has a sex pass, I want it to happen naturally and not something he rushes into because he knows I'm on birth control. I wonder if he thought I was already on it....
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#358053 - 05/03/11 02:07 AM
Re: On Birth Control for First Time
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Yeah, I got overwhelmed reading all the stuff... I've never had to worry about these kinds of side effects before...well most of of these side effects.
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#358059 - 05/03/11 04:22 AM
Re: On Birth Control for First Time
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I agree with Steph. These side-effects are things a very small percentage of people taking it have. Most women have no side-effects on a low-dose pill. Just see how you go.
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#358062 - 05/03/11 09:37 AM
Re: On Birth Control for First Time
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Birth control pills increase the risk of developing blood clots especially when you're also an overweight smoker so better watch out! Don't fly in planes for a long time and don't sit on a desk for hours without moving the legs.
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#358079 - 05/03/11 03:42 PM
Re: On Birth Control for First Time
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CONGRATS ON THE CHOICE, NOW BE CALM AND ENJOY THE TIME,ANY CONCERNS CONTACT UR DR.
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#358083 - 05/03/11 04:13 PM
Re: On Birth Control for First Time
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I'm not overweight or a smoker and though I do have poor circulation, I think it is due to being anemic and having low iron in my blood. I'm glad these have inactive ones at the end with just iron in it.
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#358130 - 05/04/11 11:49 PM
Re: On Birth Control for First Time
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I was an overweight smoker for a long time.. these are things that can possibly happen but do not happen to everyone
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#358350 - 06/01/11 10:11 AM
Re: On Birth Control for First Time
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Another reason why I hate BC... I know I shouldn't be making a big deal about it because it's a great invention. I ended up having to miss two days because I didn't want to pay the $85 at the off campus pharmacy. If I had been smart I could have avoided all this and gotten the prescription before I left two weeks ago. Today I went to the pharmacy to get the prescription refilled and now I have to wait 'til this afternoon because I had the prescription transfered out, blah, blah, blah....
I felt so stupid. I thought it would be easier talking to a woman, because I had questions about when exactly I should take the missed pills...I guess she was nice and I'm just overly sensitive, but just how she was talking to me made me feel really stupid. I tried to tell my boyfriend that I had a really, really important prescription to pick up before 5...maybe if I had just come out and said "it's birth control!" he might have come earlier and I may have gotten it. It probably still been a hassle with their stupid transferred prescription rules. Life was so easy before...sort of. I'm doing this for him. I could wait years to have sex, but I imagine he can't. We've already gone to the next level and still not have had sex...and I can't do oral. Soon he's going to want the real thing and I want to have as much protection as I can other than a condom. Before I was on BC and we were fooling around (dry humping) there was always this worry in the back of my mind that I could get pregnant. There's less worry now...so far, but I'll never feel 100% safe. I really, really don't want a kid.
It sucks not having a car and being on someone else's time and it sucks to be poor. I need a better job that pays more and offers health insurance.
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#358354 - 06/01/11 05:13 PM
Re: On Birth Control for First Time
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try to relax, and enjoy sex, don't have sex just because he wants too u'll start to feel bad about it and him do it because u want to, first few times is a adjustment time 4 u please relax as much as u can it'll get better, esp if u teach hjm how u like to get off.
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#358358 - 06/03/11 01:34 PM
Re: On Birth Control for First Time
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one of two ways, do u have a desire 4 sex, have ur hormone level checked out and ur thyroid also, the b/c pills should help a little, Only u can say if ur ready, for both ur sakes find out,
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#358363 - 06/04/11 01:48 PM
Re: On Birth Control for First Time
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if ur going to.... not when? u should have tests done to check ur hormorme levels and thyroid, dou u masterbate by ur self or only with him? ur using BC if ur still worried about preg, then add comdoms to lessen the worry, have u ever read the Joy of SEX, or more Joy. ever watch a pron movie? w/o him?
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#358367 - 06/04/11 11:29 PM
Re: On Birth Control for First Time
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I've masturbated and have watch porn with out him, before our relationship...nothing new. I remember mentioning watching porn or him masturbating while I was in the room and he said he didn't think he could do it.
Condoms were already apart of my plan...I wouldn't have sex without him using one.
I've never read either of those books.
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