Okay, I guess this is a weird topic, but whatevs.
For the ladies that are on birth control, what kind do you use/find most effective?
I've tried the daily pills, but was scared I'd forget to take them PLUS they seem very defective and I'm paranoid as fuck; I also tried the other weirder daily pills that are stronger and make you have your period once every three months but those made me nauseous; I tried the shots, but my mom didn't want to ride with me to the clinic that's 30 minutes away every time and my anxiety is too bad to go by myself but I'm thinking about reverting back to this anyway; I tried the ring or whatevs it is to no avail; I considered the little insertion thing they insert in your arm, but my mother had that at one point and it started to attach to her veins so yeah, paranoid about that...
Addd finally I had this mother fucking piece of shit IUD Mirena inserted into me, which you're not suppose to have inserted until after you've had kids and your cervix is stretched, yadayada, but I mean hey! No period or babies for five years without remembering to take anything sounds wonderful, right? Fuck no.
Well I got it like three and a half years ago, and it was a son of a bitch to insert, I slept and passed out constantly and bled profusely like a fucking pig for weeks on end, and had the absolute worst cramping pain in my life, to the point of I could do nothing but ball up and cry every single day.
And finally when all of that bullshit subsided a year and a half ish after insertion, come to find out, it completely bottomed out my sex drive, which has drastically affected my relationship (I mean fuck I'm a nineteen year old female with a hot boyfriend, I should want to have sex), and has multiplied my anxiety and depression, NOT TO MENTION, causes even more random bleeding constantly that is worse than period, and sex hurts like an absolute bitch and feels like razors are inside me the rare times I even have sex, and not wanting to have sex kinda defeats the purpose of... having birth control SO YEAH. So I'm getting this taken out as soon as my work insurance kicks in.
But ergo, the issue with what birth control to revert back to/try next?
I really don't think there's... anything left to try, which is why I'm thinking about going back to trying the shot, since there's a new office that's a lot closer to me and less of an inconvenience to drive, and I know there's another IUD called the Paraguard? I'm not sure what terrible side effects accompany it, though.