I hate birth control🙃
I didn’t get on birth control until after my first was born when I was 19. I got the mirena iud and I loved it. I didn’t get periods on it, which was great because I had always had a heavy, crampy period. Then I started having some pretty nasty side effects around a year and a half in. I got it removed and conceived my second child about 9-10 months later. After she was born I decided I didn’t want to go back on hormonal birth control so I got the copper iud. Horrible decision. It wasn’t too bad the first 6 months or so aside from the cramping but then I bled for two months straight and it began expelling itself from my body. I just got put on the mini pill (still breastfeeding) a couple weeks ago. I know that I need to give my body time to regulate, but I was told the bleeding would be nowhere near as bad as with the paragard and it would most likely make my periods lighter. I am now on day 7 of extremely heavy bleeding and horrible cramping. I can’t go more than an hour and a half without overflowing a 30ml menstrual cup. I wanted to be enjoying the last weekend of summer before my oldest starts preschool and get a few more fun outings in but I don’t even want to leave the house. My primary won’t do anything because my obgyn is the one who prescribed it and my obgyn wont do anything because I need to give my body a chance to adjust. Grr.
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