PCOS Messages for May, 2001: Re: mentally unable to handle BCPs

Re: mentally unable to handle BCPs

From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 2 May 2001 10:59:15 -0500 (CDT)

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well... actually i posted that over a week ago but it seems to have just shown up now because of the possessed postings phenomenon... i was feeling pretty whiny then.

i am not really all that much happier now... the damn pills i am on (mircette) are making me spot like crazy!!! i don't know if this will pass or not... i have a feeling i may have been due for a period before i started the pills, but my doc said just to go ahead and start them, it wouldn't hurt and i really don't know for sure if i was going to have a period any time soon anyway. the only indication was a worsening of chin hair, which i always get before my period. i usually have other symptoms, too, though, so that's why i have no idea. so... i don't know if the spotting is just my body being mad because it was trying to have a period, i am trying to supress periods, and it is leaking as a result... or if its just the pils, and this is gonna happen no matter what.

grrrr. the real kicker is, i don't even want to be on the pill. i'm fine using condoms for birth control, and like i said, i want to know what my body is doing. but aldactone makes me bleed, and that's why i have gone back on the pill. ironic that a pill i would take to help with bleeding is making me bleed!!! (i haven't even started the aldactone yet... my doc said to take the bcp alone for a month to see how i react to it. i can't WAIT to see how much i bleed when i finally start, seeing as how i'll then be on teo meds that make me bleed!!)

i see three options here...

- try a different pill (not something i am looking forward to, as the last time i was on a stronger BCP, i was crying-all-the-time depressed for three months before "getting used to it")

- try aldactone alone and hope the bleeding effects stop eventually (which is why i posted, to see if anyone has had that happen...)

- just stick with the met, and have an actual idea of what is going on with my body (but not do anything about the hair, which is what depresses me most, especially with summer coming. oh, what i wouldn't give for just one summer to feel feminine and normal!!! this damn PCOS kicked in before i ever got to enjoy a few summers as a normal hairless adult female... i feel like i have been deprived of something!!!!!!)

as much as i want to deal with the hair issues, i am more and more uncomfortable every day being on the BCP. the spotting i am having isn't making the decision any easier.

- jodi

At Tue, 1 May 2001, Susan wrote: >
>At Tue, 01 May 2001, jodi wrote:
>>
>>i just HATE knowing the my period is now
>>chemically regulated and no indication whatsoever of what is going on in
>>my body.... i just can't handle it. i would rather have no periods and
>>know what's up then chemically induced periods and no idea what is going
>>on.
>
>I've never take Alactone (sp?) so I can't help there, but I *totally*
>agree with you on BCP. I couldn't take them as a teen, and don't want
>anything to do with them now.
>
>I feel that they are being prescribed to make the doctor feel
>better--not us.
>Treating my symptoms of hair and weight is great, but its like lets FIX
>these F**ed up periods, not just put a bandaid on them.
>I think we women deserve better than BCP's.
>
>Take care,
>S.

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