PMS, delayed period, pill+cancer?

[laifan.livejournal.com]

Hey people! I'm posting here for a change. So, I have quite a few questions. First of all some background: I'm 22 years old and still a virgin. I have no active sex life at all.

My family doctor perscribed me the pill (diane) when I was 14 because I had intense flow during my periods. I got off it only a few months ago and in those first months my periods were always regular, always appeared on the same day. However, this month it's been a couple of days since it should have appeared and nothing. Also, I'm starting to experience PMS each month, which didn't use to happen while I was on the pill. I'm currently taking Sertraline for depression - think this could be related? I've been taking that antidepressant for over a year now, due to a bad depression I had in 08. I usually use tampons and I was kinda worried for a while that I could have forgotten one in there but I disregarded that cuz I figure if I had, I'd be doubled over in pain by now (if leaving a bit of the plastic there is uncomfortable like hell, I wonder what a whole tampon feels like...)

Also, I read in the leaflet that comes with the pill that it's unadvisable for people with cancer historial in the family to take the pill. I took it for eight years and my mom died of cancer when I was a child - do you think it could have been bad for me? Not that I have noticed anything out of ordinary with my breasts or period besides what I told you. Also, could you point me out some vitamins that can help you with PMS during that week? It doesn't have to be something strong since I'm on Sertraline too. Just, somedays I feel like crawling up the walls or just drown myself. I hate this =_=

Thanks in advance for any help!

Comments

[archangelbeth]

The thing about B for PMS is that it's not just during that week, and it's not just during PMS week. You pretty much have to take it month-round. Also, it acts slowly -- the first month I started taking it was a weird delayed-period-from-stress month, so it was really the second month before I could tell what was up, and the frequency and severity of my depressive incidences was noticeably lower. They weren't gone, not by a long shot! But I could tell they weren't as bad.

I've been taking them for over a year now, and while I am a bit more short-tempered, I don't have hardly any depressive PMS reactions now.

Also, Centrum is probably a multivitamin. While a multivitamin is better than nothing, I take a multivitamin and a B-complex. (And D, and sometimes some Lysine, and occasionally a probiotic capsule or two. I try not to goggle at the number of pills in my hand, since they look kind of intimidating all at once. But they're all helpful, or at least not harmful (the Lysine and the Probiotics), so...)


Crossing fingers that the weaning process goes well!


There's a lot of stuff about cancer risks and HBC. I think it's supposed to slightly raise some chances, but lowers other kinds (ovarian, IIRC), so it's kind of a case where one has to dredge through data until one feels able to make a choice for oneself. (Googling tip: when doing a search on medical stuff, always include site:gov in your string to search on. This weeds out a huge number of the iffier sites.) The pill leaflet is probably covering its backside so the company doesn't get sued over some teeny-tiny increased chance -- there are so many people taking HBC that even a teeny-tiny chance has a statistical probability of coming back to bite them.

I hope that's helpful!

[laifan.livejournal.com]

Hm it does! Thank you!