Does anyone have advice for Family planning to PREVENT while having irregular cycles?

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Is it do-able? I was on the mirena 2/2016-7/2017 and it was very bad for my body. I was ttc from 7/2017-now. We decided that we need to get some things together before building our family. Finishing school, promotion coming up, buying a house, new car, these things are all within the next 1-3 years and we really rather put starting our family on hold. But ever since I removed my mirena, I’ve had irregular cycles and ttc was tough so I feel like making sure I DONT get pregnant will be pretty stressful. Has anyone used family planning to prevent? What birth control have you guys used and would recommend?

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Condoms?

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I’d say no if your cycles aren’t regular. FPM only works when you have cycles that are consistent.

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I hate using condoms and also have irregular cycles. I have the skyla iud and love it. It is progesterone only, which is different than the mirena. I haven’t had any side effects from it, save for regulating my cycle and making periods much lighter.

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I used the family planning method. I’m now 23 weeks pregnant. 
Look into spermicide capsules, strips. Use condoms. With an irregular cycle you could take ovulation tests every day... but, that might mean once you stop putting sperm up there it’ll be too late.

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Some of the app that track your symptoms in your cycle to predict ovulation are reasonably accurate even if you have an irregular cycle.  Apparently if you log symptoms every day they have the same effective rate as using the combined contraceptive pill. I used an app for the opposite, I had an irregular cycle and used it to track ovulation to get pregnant.

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Condoms, IUD, Birth Control pills? If your cycle is irregular, you cannot accurately predict when the best times to have sex are, and you could very well end up pregnant

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I have very irregular periods and I was always on birth control. After the year and a half it took to conceive my son, I got on the mini pill after birth. I kinda fell off taking it and have relied on breastfeeding and pretty much the fact that it seems impossible for me to get pregnant and just not used anything.

Does anyone have advice for Family planning to PREVENT while having irregular cycles?

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