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[kiriux]

Day...  elventy bajillion without Nik.
(OKAY it's only day 25.  Shut up.)

After some craaaaazy PMSing and stuff, I'm finally back to normal.  The OB/GYN had me try the patch, birth control, and that didn't work so well for me.  I don't know how much you know about this, or how much you want to know, so if this falls under the TMI category, just skip

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[xsolitary_echox]

Hmm, I haven't been on the patch, but I've been on the pill for close to two years now because (well, at least mostly because) of the same sorts of problems. I would only have my period every 3-4 months, and I'd get REALLY horrible PMS (and for a longer period of time than normal), and I'd get cramps so bad I couldn't move (I used to end up missing school back in high school because of that). But the pill, despite being a pain in the ass to take every day, really has made a huge, huge difference for me. I had to switch from the one I was originally on (I went from Ortho Tri-Cyclen LO to just normal Ortho Tri-Cyclen), but it really has done a lot to help. I still get occasional bouts of depression (like this time, it's the week before The Cursed Week), but they're not nearly as bad, and they're a lot less common/frequent.

And as far as taking it at the same time every day, I occasionally am an hour or so off, once in a rare while even a couple hours off, and I've never had any problems.

BUT ANYWAY, I hope you find something that works for you <3 I kinda lucked out with having the first thing (kind of) I tried work.

I think Yaz is a stronger medicine (more hormones, etc.--higher dosage), if I'm not mistaken, so maybe you just didn't need quite that much? Then again, I'm a doctor, so it's possible I have no idea what I'm talking about. Haha.