Okay, so I am in the middle of a small dilemma.
I have been on depo-provera injections for about 2 1/2 years. I like it. I have gained some weight, but then again who knows if it's from the IR or the hormone imbalance or what?
So, my problem is everytime I go to the doctor someone mentions that I shouldn't be on it, and I am going to an endo on the 1st of Nov. who will probably tell me to get off of it.
I can't take estrogen/Progesterone pills. I feel like injuring people and I am angry, I have horrible mood swings. I will not take anything with estrogen especially after Mircette and Ortho-TriCyclin both failed me. (Haven't tried yasmin, but we come back to the estrogen)
I am uncomfortable with the nuva ring (which has estrogen anyways) I was thinking about the patch, again estrogen..do any of you ladies know of anything other than and IUD (which I have been thinking about ) that is primarily progesterone-based?
Any ideas or thoughts? Oh, and I am terrible about pills, I feel like I take so dang many of them daily I don't want to add another.. though I will if I have to.
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Are you *sure* you have a problem with estrogen? Are Mircette and OTC the only pills you have tried? Mircette made me VERY irritable because of whatever progestin is in it... I have heard of a few others having this prob. Triphasic pills are not thought to be ideal for women with PCOS so that could explain your prob with the OTC.
I always thought it was the progestin that made the difference in how you react to the pill since that is the thing that differs between combination pills.
If those are the only pills you have tried, I would consider being open to another combination pill.
There are progestin-only pills (mini pills) but they tend to be less effective and have more side effects than combo pills. Plus it is progestin/progesterone than can lead to IR/weight gain which I think could be why depo is so aggrivating to PCOS.
Of course if you want to avoid a pill... Do you have children? You could get an IUD, with or without hormones... Most docs won't agree to an IUD unless you have had one child...
Then there are the lovely barrier methods, LOL... the diaphram can be a good option if you don't have allergies to latex or spermicide...
You could also try "the ring" which seems to have mixed reviews among cysters. I think it is a combo of hormones but supposedly there are less side effects because it goes right to the reproductive area and not through the blood/liver... but women do still report BCP like side effects.
eta - are you looking for BIRTH CONTROL or PCOS symptom control??
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Well the problem is that in all actuality according to the tests, I don't really need birth control but I should be on some for PCOS control, or that's what every doctor/gynecologist and everyone else I have heard from has had to say.
I haven't had a child, but I am really leaning towards an IUD, not likely they will let me have one, though.
I know I have tried one other birth control for 3 months, and I can't remember the name (this was 4 years ago in a long line of medications),I went through 3, 3 month, cycles of birth control, it was between the Ortho Tri-Cyclin and Mircette.. I just felt like I was going to kill someone the entire time.. I don't want to go back to bcp's just to feel like that again in the middle of all my other health problems,and then have to phase on to another medication (I take way too many meds). My ideal is that I be on nothing, atleast when I was on nothing I didn't feel so mean and fat all the time.
Barrier methods would work, hate to say it.. not looking forward to them, but they could work.
Thanks so much for the ideas/comments and advice, I know what they will say to me no matter what I tell them.. that I need to go on a different birth control.
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(doesn't september suck for me?)
Mom to many furbabies- Reese (my avatar) Nugget, and Azreal, my temporary Baby- Don't forget Squeekers and Chicklet, my chinchilla babies!
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Just wanted to let you know that I couldnt take any of the bcp's the drs tried to give me. OTC, depo, yasmin - they all make me feel homicidal like you. When I finally got off the depo for good, I felt alot better for a while. Then the pcos symptoms kicked in but for me these are managable w/out prescriptions. If you are taking them just for pcos symptoms and not for birth control then I would suggest being without them for awhile and see how you feel. For some women, the pcos comes raging back and they cant handle the symptoms and start the bcp up again. But the problem with bcp's is that you really aren't having "real" periods so they actually dont fix pcos problems, just mask them. But I would feel really uncomfortable with a doctor who wouldnt support your decision to go off of them. HTH
Running out of BC options... 
