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By *EAT..85 OP Woman
over a year ago
Nottingham |
I don't use hormonal contraception and have a very calm mind. A few years ago I tried going on the pill. I took it for 6 months and found my mental health severely dipped.
I couldn't get to sleep easily, my mind never stopped whirring, jealousy levels went through the roof (not helpful as a poly person) and my sense of self was a mess. It gave me a small insight into a whole different mind type.
My question is, are you aware of the changes your hormonal contraception make? Mentally or physically. Better or worse. Are you neuro spicy and it works in a different way for you?
All viewpoints welcome.
Men you can comment if you have experiences with partners, you will definitely notice changes, but use kind language please. No 'crazy' etc. |
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Hormones have always hit me like hell.
The pill (I went through about 8 variants) was very effective as a contraceptive since I just didn't want to have sex, I was too busy crying or wanting to end things. The implant was a solid eight months of constant bleeding as well as the crippling depression before they finally took it out. The merina coil with it's "super low" dosage had much the same effect as the pill and it was almost a year before they took that out of me.
Copper coil is the only one that I've been able to have and still want to have sex.
I still occasionally ask about just being sterilised, but after twenty years of trying I've pretty much given up on the "But you don't have any kids" " Yes, that's the point" conversation 💜 |
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I can't use hormonal contraception tried them all. They are an awesome contraception as I'm so depressed than sex is the last thing I want. The misery it causes is horrible, and for me personally it makes PMT even worse. But you're shoved on them at such a young age you don't really realise it's causing all these issues. You're put on it when your hormonally all over the shop as a youngster so it kinda becomes your normal. |
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I found I was much better on the pill. My mood leveled out as I had pms and awful cramping every month and would only feel human two weeks of the month.
Thankfully that's all over now and I'm extremely grateful for hrt! |
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I was on the pill for ages but I put on weight and felt bloated all the time and couldn’t stop crying.
I used to get headaches around the hormonal changes in my cycle so I’m quite aware and sensitive of it. |
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Yes, it sent me absolutely nuts! Implant... Worst thing I ever did, I had to have it taken out. I didn't get on with any birth control, other than the copper coil, but even that had issues with really heavy periods. So I had that out and everything was much better! |
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Hormones have always affected me badly, I would get quite severe PMS symptoms from my teens and long before I ever tried taking hormonal contraception (my sisters and mum are all the same).
I put off taking contraception for a long while when I was young as I didn't want to pump my body full of fake hormones, but then a medical condition make my periods debilitating for two weeks out of every four and I couldn't cope with the symptoms anymore.
I can't take oestrogen based stuff because of another medical condition so I can only take progesterone based contraception. I was on several different types of progesterone only pills for a few years in my late 20s/early 30s, the first one I tried made me so depressed I felt suicid*l and the rage was unreal. I would wake up in a pit of dispair every day, nonstop crying, I thought everyone hated me, my sex drive disappeared completely and I couldn't get wet or aroused, my clit had no sensitivity. People commented on my moods and how severe they were. I phoned the doctor in tears and she changed me onto a different pill. The next one improved my symptoms slightly. I still had low moods but not quite as severe, except for the week before my period where it would get bad again. It still messed with my sex drive but a few days a month I would feel normalish and horny. I persevered with that for a few years but I got to a point where the moods were starting to get lower and lower again for longer periods and I had enough. I stopped taking them.
It was like a revelation, a cloud had been lifted. I felt so different mentally. My sex drive came back. I felt balanced, happy. But my periods came back too and they were awful, even worse than before. And I couldn't live with them.
So two years ago I had the mirena IUD inserted. I still get side effects; my sex drive is a lower, I struggle to orgasm but it is better than when I was on the pill. My mood can fluctuate but again, it's nowhere near as bad as when I was on the pill (there are blips but they tend to pass). My periods stopped entirely about a year after insertion and that has been a god send! I feel like I can live with the other symptoms as a pay off for no periods, as shit as they are. But it's so rubbish that I have to chose awful periods or awful side effects.
I considered the copper IUD but I would still get periods and by all accounts they would likely get worse, and that wouldn't work for me at all. So I'm resigned to a life of pumping my body full of hormones. Most of the time I love being a woman. Sometimes though, it is shit. |
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I've always been pretty lucky with hormones *touch wood* even during all my pregnancies, miscarriages and trying to get pregnant
Once I'd finished breastfeeding I opted for the cool and it's been fantastic, even at my age now (53) Im hardly experiencing any menopause symptoms, not bled since I stopped breastfeeding youngest n that's 12yrs ago
So I do feel incredibly lucky
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By *enda83Man
over a year ago
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My ex got the implant in the arm after wor Chloe was born and it definitely had a negative effect on her mentally so much that she demanded it taken out after 6 months or so, it also made it impossible to shift her post pregnancy weight she was always tiny and very lean without trying but with the implant she was exercising like crazy and starving herself to no avail yet soon after having it out this rectified itself also |
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