Well, I have started to get it out of my system, and I'm not looking forward to this time. Birth control has been a part of my life for 7 years, and the years I didn't take anything was the pits! Ever since my freshman year of high school, I needed it. Needless to say, that was the time I started to actually have a period even though I did start for like two days in 8th grade. Yea, VERY irregular!
It took care of me including the extra weight for 5 years, and I just knew I needed to get off for awhile. Then of course, I got on a few months before Brandon and I got married and once I actually found one I loved... just within the past year, I was happy! Very little, if any pain, and very short periods on a regular basis... unless I just totally didn't have one.
I stopped taking it not even a week ago, and I'm already feeling all the pain. UGH! I really hope this doesn't mean that I'm going back to have a period every two weeks with TONS of pain. :-/ Stephanie M. - Is this the pain in the butt you were talking about?!
My pain in the butt came from my cycles being so messed up - I had two normal ones and then nothing. I've also had problems with ovarian cysts, but if my cycles off, I don't have to worry about that. I did have them the first cycle off of BC, but not the second. Those cause literal, physical pain. My doctor said it's a small percentage of women who aren't regular within a few months of coming off of BC, but it is frustrating for me after waiting for so long - and then having to wait longer because my cycles are nonexistent.
ReplyDeleteI was like you when I first started back in the day - I skipped a whole year and then 6 months, and then I would skip 3-4 months for the next couple of years before I finally got pretty much regular (still skipping a month or two here and there - maybe once or twice a year that would happen).
Everyone's different, so I hope it goes okay for you! :)