birth control

Hello! I have been on Nexplanon since October of 2022, so it has almost been 2 years now. In the last 2-3 months, I have been experiencing a period every other week (one week on, one week off) as well as a lot of acne suddenly appearing. Since starting nexplanon, I did notice I’d have maybe...

I started taking the two hormone bc again even though I’m not super sexually active, I thought it would help my acne. However, I’ve gained like three pounds and my lower part of my stomach is extremely protruded in a way I don’t think three pounds would cause. Took two pregnancy tests both...

I am a 42 y/o female. Had my first period at the age of 8. Was put on birth control pills at the age of 12 (due to possible endo and very severe pain although it got better). Over the years I switched from pills to the depo shot. I took the depo shot up until about a year ago when I switched...

My first week experience on Slynd It is now my first month on Slynd and things definitely got better which is great because I thought I’d have to wait for 3 months for things to regulate. Pretty much all symptoms subsided. I’ve noticed if I miss a day however, I get symptoms for a day. One day...

i am new to reddit so i apologize if my story is long. the part on where i need advice on birth control is within the last paragraph if you'd like to fast forward this horrible story in which i am stupid. today i had met up with my partner 'M/37. yes i am aware the significant age gap is...

My last period ended June 1 and I started taking daily desogestrel and ethinyl estradiol tablets (0.15/0.03 mg) for 8 days. I’ve had terrible side affects and need to stop for health reasons but I’m in a situation right now where I CANNOT afford to start bleeding (withdrawal or otherwise)- my...

Hi all, I’ve posted in here before about my woes with Kyleena. I’m actually scheduled to get the ParaGard in three days. Since I got my Kyleena, I haven’t had a period once. Today I woke up with extreme cramping, nothing like I’m normally experiences, and started bleeding for the first time in...

My girlfriend typically takes them at 9pm every day, but noticed today that she took the Monday pill (it’s Wednesday). She isn’t sure which ones she missed. We aren’t really sure what she should do. Should she just skip up in the pack? Or should she try to catch up?

I got my IUD in August. Until then, I literally never had a problem with acne. Ever. Now, as of a couple months ago, I have been getting breakouts on my forehead and chin. Tried everything I can think of to get rid of it, NOTHING WORKS. It's extremely frustrating, because I've always been used...

Bit of context; She is on Depo shot (3rd depo shot received 14 weeks from the last shot) when we were having sex. We had sex on July 15th without condom, but I pulled out. She was saying it is okay to finish inside her, but I felt a but weird so I pulled out. Right after, she ran into bathroom...

Hi y'all! Day 35 on Opill and I've jotted down some symptoms, I've experienced for the past 4weeks. Previously, I was on Orthocyclen for 6yrs - but stopped due to increasing volatile mood swings, cystic acne, and intense migraines that were spiralling out of control. Age: 30 Height: 5'2"...

Hi guys! I’m currently taking the mini pill and u usually take it at 6:30pm but today I was out and forgot to take it until 9:15pm! This is barley covering the 3 hour limit am I still covered or does it count as a missed pill? Thank you!

Hey! So hubby and I couldn’t wait and had a little fun this morning. Our newborn is 10 days old. I was researching online because I had planned on taking some emergency contraceptive - as we have 2 under 2 and are not trying for Irish twins, we’d like to wait a bit haha! But anyways, I kept...

So hubby and I have relied on the pull out method literally our entire sexually active relationship (8 years). We have 2 children, and both times I got pregnant before, we definitely weren’t pulling out. He as always had amazing self control and my cycles have always been super regular, so i was...

Helllo, I saw a lot of people describing their experience with the fairly recent IUB and ngl it's really scary. But since mine was fairly good I thought I would give some hope out there for people interested in getting it. I got my IUB inserted recently (only 6 weeks ago) and I was aware of...

hi i just got my first ever copper coil today (5 year one) and when it was getting fitted the guy (not ideal but i legit just wanted it over n done with n didn’t feel like waiting 2 weeks for a female coil insertor to come back from holidays) said i had the smallest uterus he has ever seen in...

Me (27M) and my girlfriend(25F) had unprotected sex about 28 days ago. Next morning she took Plan B. She was supposed to get her period about 1-1.5 weeks ago, this was putting stress on her so we went forward and did a strip tests, it’s showing positive. Currently she’s experiencing some weird...

Hey guys - I just wanted to document my experience with Plan B in case y’all are going through something similar. It’d be great to hear if you guys are going through it too… there isn’t a lot of information out there. I have never taken any type of birth control, but I took plan b in June as a...

Switching birth controls and just curious about any experiences with this pill. I believe it’s the generic to Yaz.

hi i’m back again with basically the same sitch except this time, the condom slipped off completely and we couldnt j pull it out he had to like get his fingers in there to get it i asked if he finished and he said no don’t worry and that i was fine but also today is (supposedly) the day before...