Thread: I hope someone can help..

Hi ladies. I'm so frustrated with this PCOS thing I feel helpless. It seems like ever since I starting having AF it's been screwed up... never just normal like everyone else around me. I've been on birth control pills (ortho tri cyclen) since I was 17 yrs old! That's seven years and going strong... I'm just sick of having to take them but if I don't then my periods show up un announced and last for weeks on end.. so I take them faithfully everyday without missing and recently I've noticed that I will start bleeding after my fiancee and I have sex but it's not enough to come out it's all on the inside (I know this sound gross I just wish I knew what was wrong with me!)

Now I'm sitting here having period cramps and I still have a week left of pills before I should start on the last set to have a period. Sometimes I think I should jsut have it all taken out and be done with it!

Has anyone else ever had this problem? It really sucks when you think you can be intimate with your honey and something terrible like that happens. It's getting very embarassing... almost to the point where I don't want to chance it anymore! Help? Please!

I agree. I was put on Ortho Tri Cyclen at the tender at of 15! and my periods were ALWAYS super duper heavy and painful ( i don't have cysts or enodomitriosis). When I got off of them I didn't have periods (which is why i was put on them in the first place). Then years later I was put on yasmin. And it was a WORLD of difference!!!! i used maybe 4 tampons and was actually able to wear just a pad it was so light and "normal" and was virtually pain free. If I wasn't preparing to restart TTCing i'd still be on them.

I agree with Tiggarat. I'd talk to my dr. I was on Ortho and it did NOT work well with me. Not only did I have spotting, I was a maniac! I didn't say anything for a long time because I didn't realize how many different bcps there were with varying hormone levels. And it only takes a little difference to help. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and when I mentioned it to the dr he got on to me, saying I should have told him sooner. Bcps & hormones are like the goldilocks thing... sometimes it takes a couple of tries to find the exact level that works well for you. The third one was a charm for me!

Also, I always have mild camping the week before my period. BCP or no. So I don't know that there's much you can do about that. PMS is a B&#$^.

Good luck!

I hope there's nothing seriously wrong with me. Thanks for the comments. I feel like such a loser right now.. I've gained five pounds and feel disgusting. I don't understand why I can't get into the exercise groove... if I would have started Jan. 1st just think how skinny I could be by now? It's depressing. Maybe in the morning I can get out of bed and exercise. Someone pray.. hard.

i was on a low dose bc and had trouble with irregular spur of the moment surprise periods or no periods at all - i had gained some weight and my dr changed my bc to a higher dosage and it fixed it (that was a few years ago before me and my husband started ttc) - dosage might be an issue to ask about - it may be too much or too little - but either way i would make a drs visit just to be safe