PCOS Messages for May, 2001: Re: perhaps my weirdest BCP question ever :)

Re: perhaps my weirdest BCP question ever :)

From: Celeste (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 22 May 2001 20:52:46 -0500 (CDT)

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At Tue, 22 May 2001, jodi wrote: >

Jodi, the same thing is happening to me! I was on Micronor (which is progesterone only, is that true of Mircette???) and on that you take one pill a day for 28 days then start over, a period either starts or it doesn't, and you're not supposed to care (though you are taking it to make sure you cycle!!! what a joke). But my blood pressure was escalating and they wouldn't let me have anything else and I didn't want to add bp medication to the mix (and would have had to get it from somebody besides the gyno or the endo anyway, would require extra monitoring, might have sexual side effects and need to switch, you get the picture).

But, Spiro gave me perpetual bleeding all month to some degree! And the doc said I had to use some kind of birth control on Spiro (and dragged out the diaphragms!!) though I can neither O nor cycle on my own without help. So as of yesterday I have gone off both bcps and Spiro, and am trying to get in to see the endo to see if I can get on Avandia and maybe deal with my bp and cycling issues at the root. I was on Met for 9 months and it only worked for one month and quit, and I got a lot worse. My endo didn't want me to go on Avandia at my weight, but instead of trying Met for 3 more months I quit it, went on lowcarb, and lost 40 lbs. I'm hoping Avandia will be allowed for me now (actually I'm hoping I'll lose even more before I can get in there) and that it will help me cycle (though I don't really care about O-ing anymore, I'm too old for a baby) and that improved insulin control plus more weight loss will help my bp come down.

I don't know why it all has to be so hard, and to tell you the truth, a hysterectomy's looking better all the time.

>well... to recap, in case you haven't all been intensely studying my
>pattern of BCP use
>over the last few months (ha ha)... i was on mircette for one "cycle"
>which made me spot.
>a lot. i went on BCPs to counteract the inevitable bleeding that would
>occur from going
>back on aldactone. i only started with mircette because i had a sample
>of it laying around
>from days past when i was less opposed to BCPs. my doc told me to try
>the mircette, then
>try allesse, and see which one i liked...
>
>well, i have been on the allesse now for just under two weeks. been on
>the aldactone for the same
>amount of time. for the past two days or so i have had very light
>orangey/brown spotting.
>today i am having real blood spotting. (which is most inconvenient,
>because i was in the men's bathroom
>when i discovered this. the women's bathroom was being cleaned, so i
>used the men's... and there
>were obviously no pad dispensers in there!!!)
>
>of course, i have no idea if the BCP is making me spot, or if the
>aldactone is now kicking in and
>making me bleed but the BCP is controlling it down to the point of
>spotting... who knows? last
>fall, i was on aldactone for 9 days before i started bleeding... so
>it's been about that long on this
>try...
>
>on the chance that it's pill related spotting... would anyone happen to
>know if spotting on the pill
>could possibly be a GOOD sign? i never had spotting on the pill before,
>but maybe it's because
>my body was so convinced it was male, and my female hormones were so
>overpowered to
>begin with, that i didn't have any of the common side effects normal
>women experience?
>could it be that the met has normalized things enough that my hormones
>are more normal, and
>i now get normal pill-related problems?
>
>or is that just too ubsurd to look for something good in what is really
>a great big nuscience? :)
>
>not finding the decision of whether or not to stay on the pill plus
>aldactone any easier here...
>
>- jodi

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Celeste

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