Birth control questions.
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vaginapaginaHi everyone. I'm hoping I get get some good feedback here.
I am 25 and have only ever used hormonal birth control once for about 5 months. I was on the NuvaRing and had some side effects with it (horrible breast tenderness, big sore pimples on my forehead and mood swings).
A few years have passed and my boyfriend and I have been just relying on condoms. Condoms irritate me so I've been thinking about trying BC again.
I am hesitant to do a oral pill because I can be forgetful about taking medicine. My gyn mentioned the patch or the shot. I have decided the shot isn't something I want to do. The patch seemed like an okay idea but I've read it's a very high dose of hormones. Is this true? Wouldn't that lead to more side effects?
What are some good low hormone options (even if it's pills)?
I am 25 and have only ever used hormonal birth control once for about 5 months. I was on the NuvaRing and had some side effects with it (horrible breast tenderness, big sore pimples on my forehead and mood swings).
A few years have passed and my boyfriend and I have been just relying on condoms. Condoms irritate me so I've been thinking about trying BC again.
I am hesitant to do a oral pill because I can be forgetful about taking medicine. My gyn mentioned the patch or the shot. I have decided the shot isn't something I want to do. The patch seemed like an okay idea but I've read it's a very high dose of hormones. Is this true? Wouldn't that lead to more side effects?
What are some good low hormone options (even if it's pills)?
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Date: 2010-05-01 01:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-01 09:55 am (UTC)On a more productive note, there are lots of non-hormonal options besides condoms (though I'm quite partial to Paragard myself): http://www.vaginapagina.com/index.php?title=Non-Hormonal_Birth_Control. If none of those appeal to you, the lowest-dose hormonal contraceptives are the hormonal IUD (Mirena) and the implant (Implanon). Good luck!