#Nuvaring

[suchananewsblog]

Which Type of Long-Term Birth Control is Best for You?

You don’t have to take a pill every day. There are birth control methods that last weeks, months, or even years with little effort on your part – and no surgery. They are safe and effective for most healthy women. Which one is best for you? “The best method of contraception for any woman is the method that she’s going to use correctly and consistently,” says Elizabeth Micks, MD, MPH, an acting…

[amniforn]

Colorado files application to import 112 drugs from Canada

Colorado files application to import 112 drugs from Canada

DENVER — The state of Colorado has officially submitted its plan to the federal government to begin importing prescription drugs from Canada. The Section 804 Import Program (SIP) application has listed 112 drugs that the state hopes to start moving across the border to save people money. “The big picture is that we have Coloradans who can’t afford to take their medications as prescribed because…

[ultimateaclrecovery]

2023 year in review!

I actually had a pretty incredible year.

It’s weird, back in like 2021 I had been really stuck in my life and just kind of bored of doing the same things over and over and feeling like I fell into comfortable and was stuck in a rut, so I took an opportunity to live in LA for a year in 2022 which was mostly fine but the job sucked, and then came back to Colorado in 2023 and it’s like everything was all rainbows and sunshine. The grass really isn’t greener on the other side. So anyway here’s my recap.

Played lei out where we had a good time despite getting rained in.

January 21 went on our first date with my now boyfriend.

Ran a half marathon

Got to celebrate an actual valentines with my first boyfriend (although he wasn’t quite my bf yet)

Had an adorable galentines

Bought a horse, the very best pony and fulfilled an absolute life long dream and I still just can’t believe it.

Spent a weekend in dc with Anthony and got to do all the muesuem and eat purple food

Hosted a whimsical brunch just because

Had my golden birthday and turned 30 and was so purple

Played frisbee master nationals with a womens team after qualifying at regionals

Got a promotion to basically my ideal job. Am now a level 4 (out of five normal levels). Came with an 11% pay raise.

Went camping and hiked a terrifying fourteener

Helped return a sample of an asteroid to the earth.

Spent a girls day at the lake

Qualified to regionals for frisbee again. Finally.

Went to the hot air balloon festival in New Mexico and saw the eclipse and went camping

Realized the Nuvaring was not good for my emotional stability and came off of it (the one negative of the year)

Played fright flight frisbee tournament and got to be super hero Barbie

Spent nearly two with Japan with Anthony and had an absolutely marvelous time

Met his parents for thanksgiving dinner

Came home early enough for Christmas to make cookies with my mom after having to skip this last year.

Between a horse, a promotion, a boyfriend, great travel, great friends and an overall healthier for me and my family( no Covid for my birthday or dad breaking his hip before Christmas this year.) it’s been a pretty spectacular year.

Wishing you all an equally wonderful 2024 full of joy and peace!

[pornoes]

what really gets me is that no doctor is gonna believe me. what are the odds that every birth control is either harmful or ineffective for someone?

My first gyno, the one who asked if my husband gave me permission to have tattoos, prescribed me the birth control pill. I took that for a couple years until I stopped seeing that gyno after her and her staff repeatedly shamed me for my body count. The next gyno I saw had me stop the birth control pill asap because it puts me at risk for a stroke, something the last gyno would have known but didn’t tell me.

I moved shortly after and had to find a new doctor, and I had to start telling them I couldn’t take estrogen (migraines with aura) and couldn’t use condoms (latex allergy). once I shared those tidbits then the quality of care that i received tanked. appointments were cut short, my concerns were ignored, i was told to “google it” when I asked questions. I tried a few different doctors and it all went that way - They start off super cheerful, super helpful, super eager. Then they offer to put me on the pill and I tell them, “nope, sorry, that’ll kill me.” and BAM– they wrap the appointment up and get me out of there.

It’s important to note that while all of this is going on, I am also having pain in my ovaries thats only getting more regular and more intense, and I brought this up at every appointment. As of today I’ve had this pain for 8 years. But doctors wouldn’t help me with it once they found out I couldn’t go on birth control.

The pain was so excruciating that eventually, in hopes of finally getting treatment for it, I gave in and got the IUD. That was something I never wanted and was honestly quite afraid of. That didn’t do shit either. It gave me 8/10 pain level cramps 24/7 plus an infection. I saw a doctor, he laughed at me when I said “pull out” instead of “withdrawal” while I sat naked on the exam table and gave me antibiotics, and advised me not to eat after taking the meds.

So I did that, I was diligent and trying my best. But the antibiotics made me so sick I couldn’t get up and I found myself laying on the floor, reluctantly eating saltines after vomiting over and over. I went back to the doctor, still in pain, and asked to have the IUD removed. He saw there was still an infection and asked if I ate, so i told him I had saltines because I couldn’t stop vomiting. He shook his head and said “I told you not to eat”.

I got the IUD removed. Turns out it had rotated and lowered and was stabbing into my uterus. After explaining this, the doctor immediately said “okay let’s put this back in!” which I refused. I mean I just got the horrible thing out, why would I want to put it back?? And right away, too! The doctor did not like this. While I laid there naked on the exam table except for that little robe… He shook his head again, laughed, and said “well don’t come crying to me when you’re another statistic” and gave me the silent treatment for the rest of the appointment. No, really. He said to his tech stuff like, “tell the patient that she’s going to feel some pain for the next few days” until he left the room.

I avoided the gyno for 3 years after that. Fast forward to this year and the pain in my ovaries/ uterus is nearly constant. Just moving around and stretching hurt. Peeing hurt! and not in the UTI way; in a way that feels like my bladder is being torn in half. So I brace myself and go to a new gyno.

It went just about as good as I could ever hope for at this point. Meaning she was brief with me and wouldnt answer any follow up questions, but she didn’t mock me, and most importantly, she didn’t try to tell me the pain was imagined.

But there wasn’t really anything she could really do. Like I did with all the other doctors, I told her my family history of endometriosis. She was more taken back by this than any of the others though. She told me I couldn’t take estrogen, but I could take progesterone and that would be a birth control AND help with the pain. She wrote me a script, told me to google dosage/administration, and was gone

So we’re up to present day now. I take the mini pill every day at 5pm and have been taking it since March. And my period is now a full week late. Of fucking course.

[meatheadmutt]

why am i having to hold a gun to googles head to show me articles on the long term effects of hormonal birth control on the endocrine system in adult patients who began usage as a teenager

[lexa-griffins]

Omega Lexa takes "tying the knot" literally when she's married to Alpha Clarke and puts a cock ring around her during the wedding ceremony

The idea of Lexa kneeling down to put a cock ring on Clarke during the ceremony is hm 😳

Hidden by a small towel or a fancy sheet, i think it works great as a sign of submission by the omega if its a society where alphas have the power or a eay to show who the alpha belongs to in a society where omegas have the power!

(They'd definitely need a sheet with Clarke 😏)

[thecowboykatsuki-anon]

I haven’t gotten laid in over 6 months, and it is looking pretty likely that I’m gonna end up sleeping with Cali boy during my trip next month BUT I just looked and I’m also supposed to start my period that same weekend so I guess I just have to jump off a bridge

[diamondnokouzai]

i am so cute i need to be performing at a gay bar

[eelqueen]

it's october which means im ferociously horny for vampires again

[suchananewsblog]

Is Your Birth Control as Safe as You Think?

SOURCES: Colleen Krejewski, MD, assistant professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. Sheila Chhutani, MD, OB-GYN, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. Richard Kaye, MD, OB-GYN, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano. American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Committee Opinion: “Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Among Users of…

[august--and-everything-after]

Cramps 😖

[yamneko]

I really really want the cramps to stop.

This BC doesn't work, my preferred method isn't as effective anymore, and I'm too scared to do an IUD and too unreliable with pills to do those. If covid wasnt an issue, I'd consider depo again, but I don't feel comfortable going into a Dr's office every 3 months for a shot.

Time for early menopause then I guess???

[charonte-simi]

Every now and again I'll remember that I use to have a uterus and get periods and I am completely floored. Idk how the fuck I use to live with that shit. Even with the BC that prevented me from getting them usually, that was still fucking agony.

[flawlessassholes]

Rating methods of birth control on their success as a formula one race location

Nuvaring - 8/10, probably Spanish, Fernando Alonso remembers doing his f1 testing on it and thinks we should bring it back

Kyleena - 5/10, this is Kylami’s less popular younger sister

Loestrin - this is an Austrian track that nobody likes 3/10

Yaz - marina?

[shopwitchvamp]

Hello! You can ignore this if the subject is too personal, but I saw you mention that you got a hysterectomy. I've been wanting to get one for awhile for a variety of reasons (no desire to have children, wanting to permanently stop periods, ect) and I was wondering if there was anything I should know about it that isn't talked about a lot?

Yeah I had one at 25 after yearssss of medical horrors. It's a lot and probably a good deal of people don't wanna read my nightmares so-

I had absolutely life ruining periods from endometriosis/PCOS, and I also never wanted children, but couldn't stay on BC to control any of those things because I found out at 21 that it was making my cholesterol sky high. I then spent a few years being truly, literally insane because I was going off and on birth control of various types every few months to try to find anything that wouldn't give me high cholesterol. Drs were like oh maybe the patches will bypass whatever weird mechanism is making this happen, maybe nuvaring, maybe progesterone only, maybe the hormonal IUD, etc etc.

I'd rather not get into what exactly led to finally getting the hysterectomy (extremely traumatic..) but I don't mind talking about the hysterectomy itself.

All I really have to say is that I have ZERO regrets and that my life has improved DRAMATICALLY since getting the hysterectomy. I had a partial so I still have ovaries, which means still having issues from PCOS, still having a hormonal cycle, still dealing with PMDD at times, etc. But given all of the issues I'd had with hormonal BC I didn't want to have my ovaries removed and need to rely on taking hormones forever when they might have caused me more problems. This is an issue very very specific to me tho.

But yeah, before the hysterectomy I used to spend 7-10 days each month-ish incapacitated by nightmare periods, and then very often end up sick (like with a cold or sinus infection or strep throat) afterwards because my body was so weakened. The only thing that had helped before was being on the kind of BC pills you take for like 3 months straight with no breaks so that you skip periods. But once I found out about the cholesterol problem, well. They just cycled me on and off a bunch of different options while doing frequent blood tests, and then in the end were like "idk guess you just have to live with it forever." Until the obgyn I'd been seeing since I was 17, who had witnessed 8 years of my suffering and already done 2 surgeries on me, was finally willing to just do a hysterectomy back in 2016.

I hear that maybe it's a bit easier these days to find a doctor willing to perform a hysterectomy, but I can't say I know much about the process. If you're on the hunt I think maybe like the childfree subreddit has a list of doctors?

If you have any kind of more specific question I guess lemme know. I'm not sure what people do or don't talk about when it comes to this stuff, but I really don't have any negatives to report, which I mainly credit to not getting a total hysterectomy (so no early menopause issues, etc). (EDIT: just fyi anyone reading this, I've muted notifcations because while I don't mind talking about this it isn't exactly something I want popping up into my awareness every few minutes 😅 if you leave any comments or reblog tags it's totally fine, just know that I won't see them. thanks for understanding!)

[hillbillyoracle]

Ultrasound confirmed PCOS today. Going to try a NuvaRing to help regulate my cycles. Cautiously optimistic this will improve some of the GI hell I've had since it seems so tied with menstrual fuckery.

Also got my nexplanon out. Finally. It's like 5 years overdue for it coming out but the process of getting it in was so traumatic I kept putting it off. The doctor was great. Even got me more numbing when I explained I could feel it start to wear off, didn't tell me it was in my head like some doctors have.

Everyone there was fantastic. A comment I felt kind of touching was when she was like "you all are great, it's a shame you all don't want kids, you'd be great parents" - which is not something I think I've ever been told as a trans masc presenting queer partnered with a trans woman. And were def in the South here. So that was nice.