Women's Health Issues: LadyGardening for Dummies

YumCha

Morag wrote: »

The Mirena is an IUS, InterUterineSystem and the copper coil is and IUD InterUterineDevice. But it seems people want to call anything which is placed in the womb as a Coil. I have never heard any health professional use the term Merena Coil and I have my 3rd Mirena fitted atm.

My GP and specialists have both used the term and I'm on my second... Also a quick google search shows that the term isn't uncommon.

stop animal cruelty

Anyone here on Yasmin? Started on it sunday for the 1st time....today and yesterday lv been balling crying non stop...has anyone experienced this??

Dial Hard

stop animal cruelty wrote: »

Anyone here on Yasmin? Started on it sunday for the 1st time....today and yesterday lv been balling crying non stop...has anyone experienced this??

I've been on it since it came on the market here. No issues with it whatsoever. Give it at least the full pack before you make a decision.

sullivlo

Has anyone any experience in going on the pill whilst overweight?

I was on the pill before (marviol), and while on it managed to lose weight and all was well in the world. Reason I went on it was to regulate my cycle and to see if it helped with pain due to ovarian cysts.

Fast forward a few years and my new GP took me off it because I was morbidly obese. My period was fine when I came off it though.

Fast forward a year or so, and I'm on a big weight loss thing (30 kg since January) and my period is all over the place. I know that it's due to stress, and likely to settle down when I reach my target weight, but for the time being it's very, very frustrating.

I'll speak to my GP about it, but I'd like to be armed with any info on anything that it would be possible to take.

x Purple Pawprints x

I went on Microlite for the same reasons as you sullivlo, and I was around 4-5 stone overweight at the time. I had no real problems with it. I did change to Marviol about a year and a half after I went on Microlite. Thought it was making me moody at the time. (It wasn't, I was going through some stuff at the with my ex but that's a whole other story..) I'm still on the Marviol and I've lost nearly 4 stone, no problems with my period. I'm considering going off it soon. Hope that's of some help to you.

sullivlo

Thanks PP.

Will talk to GP. Just want to get some control over period for a while: it's all over the gaf and I don't like it :P (but as my doc says - nobody likes getting their period!)

x Purple Pawprints x

Oh I know. Mine was awful. Really irregular and painful. Definitely talk to your GP.

Faith

Just looking for input here: I'm on microlite currently but I'm emigrating to Canada in 10 days. As far as I can tell, microlite is not available in Canada. Should I get as much as I can here before I leave, or just go to a GP in Canada and change pills? I hate changing pills, and I know my GP here would give me a 1-year prescription but it might be better to just change in Canada.

Princess Peach

Are you surely sure it's not available? Mine was but under a different brand name. Think my doctor in Canada looked it up for me....Can't really rememeber

One thing to keep in mind is your health insurance in Canada will possibly pay for all prescriptions, mine did anyway!

Faith

Princess Peach wrote: »

Are you surely sure it's not available? Mine was but under a different brand name. Think my doctor in Canada looked it up for me....Can't really rememeber

One thing to keep in mind is your health insurance in Canada will possibly pay for all prescriptions, mine did anyway!

Yeah, the exact formulation could be available alright, but I can't seem to find it out! It's like marviol is marvelon in the uk... I should probably take my chances co!

angeldelight

Faith wrote: »

Yeah, the exact formulation could be available alright, but I can't seem to find it out! It's like marviol is marvelon in the uk... I should probably take my chances co!

Microlite appears to be Alesse in Canada

http://bodyandhealth.canada.com/drug_info_details.asp?brand_name_id=626

Both have 100 micrograms Levonorgestrel and 20 micrograms Ethinylestradiol

If it were me I'd probably take a few packs of Microlite with me just so I had them while I got sorted, found a doctor etc

Faith

angeldelight wrote: »

Microlite appears to be Alesse in Canada

http://bodyandhealth.canada.com/drug_info_details.asp?brand_name_id=626

Both have 100 micrograms Levonorgestrel and 20 micrograms Ethinylestradiol

If it were me I'd probably take a few packs of Microlite with me just so I had them while I got sorted, found a doctor etc

Good work! I couldn't find anything

brunette28

Long time lurker, first time poster here. Im currently looking into the possiability of starting on a long term contraceptive. Either the implant or the mirena coil. My doctor doesn't seem keen to use the mirena as I have never been pregnant. Is this an issue, or has anyone had one that has never been pregnant before? Is this as big an issue as he seems to be making it? Also opinions on the implant would be greatly apriceated. His reluctance is making me second guess myself and have doubts. There is also no family planning clinic anywhere near to where I live, the closest being in Dublin.

OrangeVarnish

brunette28 wrote: »

Long time lurker, first time poster here. Im currently looking into the possiability of starting on a long term contraceptive. Either the implant or the mirena coil. My doctor doesn't seem keen to use the mirena as I have never been pregnant. Is this an issue, or has anyone had one that has never been pregnant before? Is this as big an issue as he seems to be making it? Also opinions on the implant would be greatly apriceated. His reluctance is making me second guess myself and have doubts. There is also no family planning clinic anywhere near to where I live, the closest being in Dublin.

Hey! I'm on cezertte and I love it, never had any issues with the pill and it works perfectly, it also stopped my periods which I have found great as I used to get cripplingly bad ones!

stinkle

brunette28 wrote: »

Long time lurker, first time poster here. Im currently looking into the possiability of starting on a long term contraceptive. Either the implant or the mirena coil. My doctor doesn't seem keen to use the mirena as I have never been pregnant. Is this an issue, or has anyone had one that has never been pregnant before? Is this as big an issue as he seems to be making it? Also opinions on the implant would be greatly apriceated. His reluctance is making me second guess myself and have doubts. There is also no family planning clinic anywhere near to where I live, the closest being in Dublin.

Ive a mirena and have never been pregnant. I think insertion can be more difficult/painful if you've never been pregnant (please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't want to spread misinformation). I think its cos the womb is smaller. Its something you could ask. I went to a women's clinic where they're used to doing this regularly.

Meauldsegosha

brunette28 wrote: »

Long time lurker, first time poster here. Im currently looking into the possiability of starting on a long term contraceptive. Either the implant or the mirena coil. My doctor doesn't seem keen to use the mirena as I have never been pregnant. Is this an issue, or has anyone had one that has never been pregnant before? Is this as big an issue as he seems to be making it? Also opinions on the implant would be greatly apriceated. His reluctance is making me second guess myself and have doubts. There is also no family planning clinic anywhere near to where I live, the closest being in Dublin.

I had the mirena fitted at the beginning of July. I have never been pregnant, it was fitted to control very heavy periods. I had bad cramping for about a week but everything has been fine for the last week weeks.

Meauldsegosha wrote: »

I had mirena fitted about two weeks ago. The first week everything was fine but in the last couple of day I have had really bad cramping. Now my doctor did warn me about this but I wasn't expecting it to be this bad. I'm probably just been a moaning minnie but I haven't had "period pains" like this since I was a teenager and that was nearly 30 years ago.

rainbow kirby

My GP here in London acted surprised when I said I didn't want a Mirena until after I have kids! NHS must be pushing them to recommend LARCs.

anothernight

rainbow kirby wrote: »

My GP here in London acted surprised when I said I didn't want a Mirena until after I have kids! NHS must be pushing them to recommend LARCs.

From memory, the NHS contraceptive information website doesn't mention the kids bit at all, and neither did my English GP. They don't seem to take into consideration whether the woman has had children yet.

spurious

I think the Mirena is one of these things was initially developed for one thing (contraception) but is very very effective at treating another thing (menorrhagia).
The insertion 'issue' some doctors seem to have is to do with the cervix I believe. I haven't yet met a woman who could not have a Mirena inserted, children or not. It might be a little trickier, but it's not impossible.

Chattastrophe!

As far as I remember, the mirena has to be fitted on the first day of your cycle? I'm currently on the mini-pill, so I'm not really getting proper periods, just occasional irregular bleeding every now and then. Would you think I'll have to come off the mini-pill and wait for my periods to return before getting the mirena fitted?

YumCha

brunette28 wrote: »

Is this an issue, or has anyone had one that has never been pregnant before? Is this as big an issue as he seems to be making it?

Am on my second Mirena and I don't have kids. Can't comment on insertion pains as i had both done under GA, during a laparoscopy the first time, and a hysteroscopy the second. Don't remember anything about having to wait for a point in my cycle either time, although i *think* it's preferred if you're on your period.

It did take a while to settle down (around 6 months), but after it did - absolute godsend as I had endo, extremely heavy periods, and had bad reactions to 7 diff types of the pill, implant and nuvaring.

brunette28

Hey there, thanks for all the replies. Ive found them quiet helpful in making my ultimate decision. The reason Im looking for it to be fitted is for contraception reason's alone. I want something long term, extremely low maintence and something that's quiet easily gotten out of one's system. It was just the attitude of both the doctor and the surgery nurse that I spoke to first that made me doubt my preferred choice. They both told me that they found it an odd choice. But my reasoning is, Ive got an unnatural fear of falling pregnant, as I don't see children in my future at all. Nothing odd about that, parenthood isn't the correct choice for everyone. I've started to form the opinion that maybe good old small town catholic Ireland mind set may be my problem here. Thanks again for all the replies, they have really helped me in making the right decision for me and my body.

iwantmydinner

brunette28 wrote: »

Hey there, thanks for all the replies. Ive found them quiet helpful in making my ultimate decision. The reason Im looking for it to be fitted is for contraception reason's alone. I want something long term, extremely low maintence and something that's quiet easily gotten out of one's system. It was just the attitude of both the doctor and the surgery nurse that I spoke to first that made me doubt my preferred choice. They both told me that they found it an odd choice. But my reasoning is, Ive got an unnatural fear of falling pregnant, as I don't see children in my future at all. Nothing odd about that, parenthood isn't the correct choice for everyone. I've started to form the opinion that maybe good old small town catholic Ireland mind set may be my problem here. Thanks again for all the replies, they have really helped me in making the right decision for me and my body.

I'd suggest looking into making the trip to a clinic, such as Well Woman, who are well used to inserting the Mirena.

brunette28

iwantmydinner wrote: »

I'd suggest looking into making the trip to a clinic, such as Well Woman, who are well used to inserting the Mirena.

Thanks for the idea. Im not sure as to whether I would be able to make one of those clinics as the nearest to me is in Dublin and time off work if rare these days. Correct me if Im wrong, but the open 9 to 5? My doctor has said he will refer me to someone with regard shaving the Minera fitted, but it was just his whole attitude that made me second guess my choice and seek others opinion on here. Which Ill be honest, has been far more helpful and insightfull than his has been. Thanks again for the suggestion.

stinkle

brunette28 wrote: »

Hey there, thanks for all the replies. Ive found them quiet helpful in making my ultimate decision. The reason Im looking for it to be fitted is for contraception reason's alone. I want something long term, extremely low maintence and something that's quiet easily gotten out of one's system. It was just the attitude of both the doctor and the surgery nurse that I spoke to first that made me doubt my preferred choice. They both told me that they found it an odd choice. But my reasoning is, Ive got an unnatural fear of falling pregnant, as I don't see children in my future at all. Nothing odd about that, parenthood isn't the correct choice for everyone. I've started to form the opinion that maybe good old small town catholic Ireland mind set may be my problem here. Thanks again for all the replies, they have really helped me in making the right decision for me and my body.

maybe the doc and nurse aren't v experienced at inserting them or do it infrequently. I second going to a clinic. I went to mine for pill advice and wasn't keen on mirena initially but was v reassured by the doc there. I ended up having a different doctor on the day than the initial chatvand it was still fine.

Princess Peach

I've been to the well woman clinic a few times on a Saturday, think they open until 7 midweek too.

brunette28

Princess Peach wrote: »

I've been to the well woman clinic a few times on a Saturday, think they open until 7 midweek too.

Would anyone know if just the one visit would be needed? Or would you need to return another day if I decided to go ahead with Minera? Sorry for all the silly questions, but I actually don't feel like I can ask these questions with my doctor at the moment. Once again, thanks for all the advice. Im so glad I came across this forum.

sullivlo

brunette28 wrote: »

Would anyone know if just the one visit would be needed? Or would you need to return another day if I decided to go ahead with Minera? Sorry for all the silly questions, but I actually don't feel like I can ask these questions with my doctor at the moment. Once again, thanks for all the advice. Im so glad I came across this forum.

http://wellwomancentre.ie/index.php?p=services

Info there. I'd say two visits needed but they open late and on Saturdays.

brunette28

Thanks for the info. It wont let me quote you Sullivlo, keeps telling me Im not allowed to as Im a new user. But had no problem in doing so earlier. Looks like two trips are needed when I had a look at the site. But Im sure the benefits will outweigh taking a few days off of work.

sullivlo

brunette28 wrote: »

Thanks for the info. It wont let me quote you Sullivlo, keeps telling me Im not allowed to as Im a new user. But had no problem in doing so earlier. Looks like two trips are needed when I had a look at the site. But Im sure the benefits will outweigh taking a few days off of work.

Because you were quoting a link

Ask for late appt or Saturday morning?