birth control

[vangie.livejournal.com]

i used to be really irregular, so i talked to my doctor and had him put me on birth control. since i'm a tiny girl, and would only be taking it for regularity cuz i'm only fifteen, i was given the lowest possible dose. i took the sample pack, started it on time, and too it religiously for two weeks. those two weeks i felt absolutely horrible. i was queasy all the time and i literally stopped eating because i had no appetite and i was scared i couldn't keep it down. i had to stop taking them. i heard somewhere that it's extremely common for women taking the pill for the first time to have some side effects like mine for the first few months. i really don't like the idea of forcing my body into a pattern with pills, and the side effects made me stop taking them. is this normal, or is it because i'm so young? could it just be i reacted weird?

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because any form of the pill is synthetic, adverse reactions are pretty common. if you're not taking it to make use of its birth control aspect, then i'd suggest looking into using a natural progesterone cream. it sounds to me like you could have have estrogen dominance.

[raticus.livejournal.com]

I had the same problem, except I put up with the side effects for 3yrs, then I finnaly said "fuck this" and I'm letting my body do what it lieks naturally. My doctor put me on it for cramps. But after I came off it, my cramps weren't as bad as they were while on it. My docotr must have been on drugs himself, becuase he gave me a brand of the pill that was mainly lactose based..... and I'm lactose intollerant lol.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I couldn't take it at all, period, no way. Made me sick for months upon months.

The doctor thought that something else was causing my vomiting and headaches, but suggested (after I kept taking the pill day after day) that I use something else for birth control, as I was throwing up so often that the pill might not be effective. So I started using condoms, then figured that as I was using condoms, might as well quit paying for the pill—and the mysterious illness vanished.

I won't take it again.

doctors, silly people

[raticus.livejournal.com]

I refuse to take any type of contraceptive, I ain't having sex, And I don't really mind if I get pregnant, so I'm just gonna let mother nature do her bit.

[urania.livejournal.com]

...have you talked to your doctor about the side effects?

and: if you stopped eating much that might have made it worse--almost any medicine is more likely to give you a stomach upset if you take it on a nearly empty stomach. i'm on b/c now, i like it; but the first few months i was queasy a lot. the queasiness got better, though, if i took the pill in the evening, and with at least a full glass of water and a few crackers or something, and then made sure to eat breakfast the following morning. i also chewed on ginger...

(soapbox :) about the "synthetic" thing: synthetic what? as in, something that woulndn't already be in your body? we put all sorts of "synthetic" stuff in our bodies--food, by that definition, and things like antibiotics when we're ill. often it does the body good. if the particular medicine doesn't work well for you, good and fine; but don't dismiss it as bad just becuase it wouldn't be in the body anyhow--it can still help some people! (that was to someone above who mentioned them as "synthetic." sometimes synthetic stuff can help. it helped me...) (ok, nuff soapbox for me. it's early, i cant speak coherently :)