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Non-hormonal birth control pillls? IUD?
I'm 21 years old and I've been on the pill since I was a freshman in college, I'm now a senior in college.
For about two years I was on ortho tri cylen lo and it was fine for a while but then I noticed it started giving me horrible pms and I would be so irritable atleast a week after my period.
The end of my sophmore year my doctor changed my birthcontrol to Yaz and I've been on that since and I am on it now. I gained weight from it (not a crazy amount) but I've noticed it's been much harder to lose weight while on this pill.
I've heard a lot of people drop weight easier when they aren't on the pill or when they stop taking it.
I didn't have an issue with weight loss on Ortho Tri cylen lo because I think the dosage was lower? hormone wise? I don't know really, but Yaz it has definitely been an issue.
I am sexually active with my serious boyfriend. We don't use condoms because I'm on the pill and I take it regularly and I know what they say yada yada about the pill isn't 100% effective, it has been for me.
I don't want to go off the pill and rely just on condoms because that seems risky, and I've heard good things about IUDs but I'm concerned about just having a thing up there.. you know?
I will talk to my doctor this week but I just wanted some opinions from females. If any of you girls had issues with weight loss from a certain pill or weight gain, and if getting off the pill or switching to different one helped?
Thanks XOXO
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Hello! Hello!!
I love birth control talk, because it's like shoe shopping. There's so much to choose, and you want to know which is better for you, or what's more comfortable, or which pair makes you look better.
Weight gain is a common problem with birth control. Yaz is actually a low dosage of estrogen, and for you it seems it has given you the side affect of water retention, which means your body is literally trying to hold on to your water, because:
A.) Your body thinks you are pregnant, even though you really aren't (thus concludes the magic of birth control), so it may want to hold on to certain things for the baby the doesn't exist.
B.) New birth control pills may raise insulin levels. Insulin's the stuff that burns off sugar, so when those levels rise, and you may have a bagel in the morning or any type of carb, then those carbs get distributed to fat cells. Therefor creating that awful, you're doing everything you can, but you can't drop that little bit of weight affect.
C.) Their is a direct relationship between how much estrogen that little monster has, and how much water is retained. Therefor, the more estrogen the more water. Why? Because estrogen actually stimulates some compounds in the kidneys that can lead to fluid retention.
True. Story.
So one way to combat this is ask your doctor for something that has less estrogen Another is to follow a diet that is low in carbs. So eat a little more protein a vegetables. So have eggs, or steel cut oatmeal in the morning, have a salmon salad in the afternoon, with a side of fresh fruit, and maybe Burbon Chicken, a salad and frozen yogurt for dinner. If you're going to have carbs may I suggest whole wheat anything! Way easier to digest, and a great source of fiber, so you can minimize that little problem area on the stomach that all women have... trust me. It took me a while to get mine someone minimized, and it just won't ever go away.
But yes, good decision on checking with the doctor.IUD's are a controversial thing. Some women love it, but you must acknowledge the risk before you decide to go with it as a new form of birth control. The shot is also something that contains weight gain, and the patch is something people don't seem to gain as much weight on but that's because it also has norelgestromin (I know, weird word) that helps share the work, along with estrogen. But you may not be able to wear the patch for other medical reasons, so really it's what you and your doctor think is best. I know girls who love the pill, but then I know a girl who said she hadn't lived till the patch, and another girl who said the IUD was wonderful, and extremely comfortable.
You can fact check this stuff with your doctor as well, and ask if there are any more options you can go for, as well as go for a check up, and maybe even a blood test if you're due for one. You'd be surprised how something like weight gain on the pill is actually a warning sign for something else going on that's undetected. But I'm sure everything is fine. So many more girls gain weight on oral pills then the medical field likes to admit.
Good Luck & Best Wishes!!!
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