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[spookysoul]

I have decided to try to stop birth control. I've been on several types, and stayed with the nuvaring for years as it is my favorite. I would keep it in for 4 weeks and replace immediately... I haven't had a period in over a year! I do that because the 'placebo week' was particularly bad for my migraines, and the docs agree that it's perfectly

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[rasputin_fish]

Well I've been on HBC for 8 years so I'm not useful on that front but I just wanted to tell you to be prepared for side effects coming off the nuva ring. I felt like I was losing my mind when I took mine out and the symptoms continued for a few weeks. (Supposedly that doesn't happen to everyone and I often thought I was going crazy when I was using it so maybe you'll be fine!)

What are you going to do instead?

[spookysoul]

The Sponge is back on the market... I'm going to try it. Also, we never had a problem using condoms, so they may come back into play.

When you went off nuvaring, did you have a few weeks without HBC? What did you switch to?

[rasputin_fish]

I started taking Quasense (generic version of Seasonale) about 3 weeks after I stopped the nuvaring. I would have started right away on the new stuff but I couldn't get to a doctor in time unfortunately.

I'd be very curious to hear about the sponge!

[spookysoul]

My mother swears by the sponge... apparently, it's all she ever used when she was fertile.

[quinnesocrates]

I was on estrogen birth control for almost ten years before the docs took me off (for the auras, just like you!). Now I'm on a progesterone-only pill, which kind of sucks for multiple reasons, but strokes suck way more, so I hear.

I could talk about menstruation all day and night, but two main things are:

1: You might think you are going insane/the only one who really understands Ulysses (or Twin Peaks, or Lord of the Rings, or or 2001: A Space Odyssey, you get the idea)/the Second Coming/some combination of any of these. I withdrew from people for like a month when I stopped the estrogen pill and kind of wound up in fights with my boyfriend and all my closest friends for about a month. I'm always reluctant to blame "hormonal" stuff, because I think that's so often used as a scapegoat, but dude. For realz. It fucks with you

one more thing

[quinnesocrates]

Also, you will get horny a fuck. It'll settle down after a month or so. At least Boyfriend can't complain about that. ;)

[spookysoul]

did you notice any changes in your migraines post BC? Worse, better, unchanged?

[quinnesocrates]

I think better, actually. But I don't get them as badly as you do.

I get very bad seasonal migraines at the beginning of the fall, and I think it was better this year. Other times of the year, oddly, it's not much of an issue.