Pill or depo shot?
I have been on birth control pills since my freshman year and I lowkey think it is starting to mess w my body. It was originally for cramps, to lighten my period, and to keep it regular. I’m a junior now, I have really bad cyst on my ovaries, I’m actually sexually active now that I have a boyfriend an what not, my periods are still kinda bad.. like I still bleed through often. I can’t wear tampons anymore bc they make the cramps 5x worse.
I feel like I should just get put on the shot so I won’t have a period anymore but Ik they make you gain weight and I’m very Cautious when it comes to that subject bc I just lost 40 pounds and I don’t want to gain it back.
But anyways, I’ve been taking my birth control and I’ve had my period twice within the last 3 weeks. It’s very heavy, VERY painful, and it doesn’t help bc when the cyst start to hurt I have to lay down and massage my belly or they will ache and it feel like it’s through out my whole body after a few minutes and my mom will literally make me do shit like come up stairs to grab the phone off of the kitchen table to give it to her when she’s literally already 4 feet from it but don’t want to get up off the couch like she won’t let me rest w/o yelling my name for sumn every 10 minutes and it gets on my MF NERVES😩
My boyfriend and I have sex on my period occasionally bc it feels good but sometimes afterwards my uterus and ovaries feel like I’m being stabbed through the vagina so for the 2nd period this month, I’m not having sex on it bc I’ve been in too much pain and it’s very heavy. I’ve tried getting my mom to call my OB/GYN and she hasn’t yet. She wants to switch my doctors around again and I hate that.. bc I’m uncomfortable talking about this with 500 different doctors 🙄
What do you guys recommend I should do? The only thing that works for the pain is alieve and it takes a while to kick in. I feel like if I get the shot I will not have periods anymore the that pain could be eliminated but idk if true shot will get rid of the cysts... what do you guys think I should do abt it? Or what have y’all had done?
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