It turns out, my periods are shorter, my PMS is less severe, and the sex drive I thought I'd lost around the age of 27 returned with a vengeance.
One of my friends recently went off the pill and had that exact reaction. She even felt better overall, like when she was on the pill, she felt she was always pissed off and when she went off, it was like a dark cloud was lifted.
I'm a condom girl, always have been. I'm very wary of the pill and honestly, I take enough pills on a daily basis and would rather not add one to the regimen unless I had to. I've thought about other BD methods, so actually it's really great to read this poll. I did give thoughts to an IUD, two of my friends are IUD people, though both had complications with it getting stuck, which made me wary too. Granted, if you're getting it and not planning on removing it until menopause then it probably won't be a problem, but, as an example, one of my friends, who hadn't planned on having any other kids, got remarried and changed her mind, so she had to get her IUD taken out and it was a struggle to remove, almost had to have surgery. BUT, I should add, after all that, once she had her baby, she did go for the IUD again, so... Even with that complication, she went back to it, so that must say something good.
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Date: 2010-02-16 08:38 pm (UTC)One of my friends recently went off the pill and had that exact reaction. She even felt better overall, like when she was on the pill, she felt she was always pissed off and when she went off, it was like a dark cloud was lifted.
I'm a condom girl, always have been. I'm very wary of the pill and honestly, I take enough pills on a daily basis and would rather not add one to the regimen unless I had to. I've thought about other BD methods, so actually it's really great to read this poll. I did give thoughts to an IUD, two of my friends are IUD people, though both had complications with it getting stuck, which made me wary too. Granted, if you're getting it and not planning on removing it until menopause then it probably won't be a problem, but, as an example, one of my friends, who hadn't planned on having any other kids, got remarried and changed her mind, so she had to get her IUD taken out and it was a struggle to remove, almost had to have surgery. BUT, I should add, after all that, once she had her baby, she did go for the IUD again, so... Even with that complication, she went back to it, so that must say something good.