Am i crazy for refusing birth control?

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Basically long story short birth control pills turn me into a raging bitch. I had merina IUD and it got imbedded and turned up sideways inside me causing massive pain not only that but it fucked with my head soooooo bad. Best way I can describe it was that I felt trapped inside my body and felt like I was an 80yr old in a 20+ body. I'm terrified to get anything else cuz I don't want shit fucking with my head. I know how to not get pregnant condoms ECT. But people still call me crazy because I refuse it. I will not get my tubes tied and hubby doesn't want snipped either. But am I crazy for wanting to be normal and not having birth control fucking with my hormones and head.

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No you're not crazy at all there are plenty of non hormonal forms of birth control that work just fine (condoms, IUDs, natural family planning method, etc). 
I went off birth control pills because they made me feel awful and did the natural family planning method successfully for 3 years until we decided to try for a baby. One of the best health decisions I've made was getting rid of BC pills.

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Natural family planning is what we do.  I don't like the idea of pills controlling my hormones.   I just use a period tracking app Clue,  and it tells you fertile days and everything.

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I've NEVER been on birth control in my life and never will! Once an obgyn tried to forced me on birth control after I miscarried in an ER and that just made me not want it more because I purposely got pregnant. I plan on just using condoms and advoiding when I ovulate. I'm sure after I give birth everyone will think I'm crazy but I'm never going to be on birth control. Not happening.

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We use condoms but we are very vigilant with them especially around ovulation.
I've been with my husband for 12 years and both times we got pregnant, we were actively TTC (well with our 1st, we got pregnant on the first try but 2nd time we used adjuncts).

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There are non-hormonal birth control methods. The Copper IUD is great for long term protection in monogonous relationships. There's always condoms too :)

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Thanks guys I feel so much better that I'm not alone in feeling this way

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Condoms are a form of birth control! :)

Alternatively, I've had terrible pills (and I mean awful) and great ones. They are not created equally.

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I'll never take BC either. I've tried the shot & the pill and they both made me really weird. I don't like putting medication in my body anyways. I barely take Tylenol or anything.

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I think they just act like you're crazy for refusing because they know how easy it is for you to get pregnant after having a baby. It's like super easy. Breastfeeding is not a reliable form of birth control at all but condoms and spermaside should work!

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I got the Mirena in when baby was 9 weeks and got it out a month later, messed me up too. I had anxiety and panic attacks, I was crying ALL the time and I was constantly bleeding. My doctor offered me the pill and I refused because I don't want the hormones again. So now I'm on no birth control. We aren't having sex tho anyway because of it but we just bought some condoms so we will see how that goes.

Am i crazy for refusing birth control?

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