Birth Control Dilemna: Lutera vs Nuvaring vs Depo

UGH! I have a serious dilemna!
I don't know what form of birth control to get on.
It's really starting to become a problem.

Four months ago I started the Pill. It was great or whatever and would be perfect except I could never take it at the same time every day. I was always late or early and once I even skipped a whole weekend cause I had spend the night home and didn't feel like driving back to campus just to take it. So this if I were actually trying to prevent pregnancy would be a fail cause its only like 50% effective when you take it wrong. Also missing pills caused spotting which annoyed me.

So before the first month was up I got a prescription for Nuvaring and switched out. Nuvaring is perfect! You leave it in for three weeks take it out for the fourth and insert a new one. I never have to think about a schedule for taking it. I been on it for 3 months now and love it to pieces. Only problem is I REFUSE to leave it in during sex. Its stupid and in the way. You can take it out for 3 hours so I take it out but problem #2 I always never make it within that 3 hr pd. I usually end up not reinserting it for 24+ hours. I tend to take it out for no reason sometimes to and once I almost lost it cause its clear and I couldn't find where I sat it down at. So this is also not effective so far because I'm bad at it too.

The problem is so far I haven't found anything stable and effective according to my habits.

I was thinking about Depo. You just get a shot and it last 3 months. However I am worried about that bc some people side effects are they bleed the whole 3 months or their period stops and I don't like either of those ideas they sound unnatural. If you get side effects you can't undo the shot so u just have to deal for 3 months or longer til they wear off. Also I am not one of those super fertile women that get pregnant easily (you know the women that have a period every 28 days like clockwork cause their body is tryna reproduce lol and they get pregnant if you give them a hug). I don't want to be fucking with my fertility cause I don't have a pair of African birthing hips for to pop out babies through baby after baby starting at age 14. I'm petite and a late bloomer. I would have to do a lot of careful planning and make a lot of changes to be a baby machine. So while I know for a fact I wont be ready to have a baby for the next 3 yrs I still don't want to do anything semi permanent. Then again if I accidentally got pregnant and then got an abortion that would prolly fuck with my fertility even heavier so maybe the shot is a good idea.

So basically that is my dilemna and I have a lot to think about. I know the doctor I go to is probably sick of me telling her I'm not really satisfied with this can I try something else. When I schedule my annual gyno appt I'm going to have to decide so hopefully I'll figure it out... I may go back to the pill or get the shot or even keep the ring I just can't decide



Dez Out

1 comments:

Sugar Cookies said...

ok I'm confused y dont u leave it in for sex? like i feel like U deplete the purpose of having it if u take it out during sex like r u afriad that he'll feel it like I am completely confused and I have been for the past how ever long since u told me u take it out...

if u get depo and u bleed like i did YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT they can give you something else like the pill or the ring again etc to get u back normal or give u a hormonal suppletment to stop the bleeding but most ppl stop having periods at all so idk what to tell u

wth is lutera?

and I think thats allmy questions and comments =)