I don't want kids and I don't want my period.....?!
Question: what are the best options for me...i have searched the web...but can one form of birth control do both....successfully?
Answers: what are the best options for me...i have searched the web...but can one form of birth control do both....successfully?
I would NOT recommend depo provera, as many many women experience horrible health risks because of it (there are also several class action lawsuits against the makers of this drug).
There is Lybrel, a pill that apparently gets rid of periods. I'd look into THAT, or the patch, or the ring.
There is also Seasonale/Seasonique, which gives you four periods a year.
There is also a hysterectomy but I don't know how many doctors would actually do that for you.
its part of life.live it wisely
There is a new pill that gynecologists prescribe that will take away your period completely.
I cannot remember the name but any doctor will know.
It stops ovulation also, so that you will never fall pregnant and never have the period while taking that pill.
Find out from your G.P
Having a period is part of life. You can take birth control to help with pain, and to shorten it. Stopping your periods completly is bad for your health.
If you don't want kids, birth control will also help with that. You could also use an IUD. If you are 100% positive you never ever want kids, you could get a tubal ligation (tubes tied) but I don't recommend this unless you're absolutely positively 100% positive, since this process is irreversible.
well first in order to not have kids you need to use a condom...as for the period if you use birthcontrol all it does is make you produce more hormones to cause a natural blood flow . Still causing you to have your period.Unless you were pregnant or had a hysterectomy, that is the removal of the uterus...
There is a birth control pill available that stops your periods entirely. What happens is that the placebos in a normal birth control pill pack are replaced by those with hormones so you don't get periods. Otherwise, the only truly permanent method of stopping periods is to get a hysterectomy but I don't think you will be able to find a doctor who will perform one.
By the way, having periods every month for years isn't natural. A woman can have up to 500 of them during her childbearing years, provided they are never interrupted by pregnancy or too much exercise or poor nutrition. In the past, women rarely had periods because they were almost always either pregnant or nursing.
Well if you take the pill all the way through you won't have periods because hormonal birth control work by supressing ovulation which supresses menstruation.
The truth is that you don't really get periods on the pill you get withdrawl bleeding and the only reason for time off the pill is b/c when it was first invented it was thought that by allowing bleeding than the pill would be acceptable to the Catholic Church. Now it's just habit to have placebos ot a week off taking active pills.
It you want to go that way though, please let your dr. know what you intend to do so she can take it into account when she writes you a script.
Other than that there is endometrial ablation.
I dont know which country you are in but an injection of medroxyprogesterone (Depo- Provera or Depo Ralovera) 150 microgm last for 3 months contraception and generally there are no periods. As with anything there can be side effects so seek medical advice.
Some women can have an intrauterine device with progesterone implanted in it (Mirena in AUstralia) and this generally reduces periods to very slight. Good for five year's contraception but no good for those who have never had kids or are at risk of getting STDs.
Finally one sort of contraceptive pill sometimes reduces periods to next to nothing - a combination of ethynyloestradiol and norethisterone (marketed here as Brevinor). Most sorts of "the pill" can be take for 9 weeks straight so you only get a period every ten weeks. (better than every 4!)
Go see a Family PLanning expert as there are options and none of the above protect for infections!
I take DepoProvera and it helps with both of these things. I'm kid free and I can't remember the last time I had a period. It had to be at least 6 months ago.
The downside to DepoProvera is that it eats your body's calcium and causes deficiencies which can lead to osteoporosis later on in life. You have to deal with that by taking Calcium pills and eating foods with calcium in them if you didn't do so before. At first I was afraid because I had heard lots of bad things about osteoporosis and DepoProvera being linked together, but many doctors I've gone to have said that I have nothing to worry about as long as I make sure to replace the calcium.
DepoProvera stopped my period, and from what I've heard that's the most common thing, but sometimes it only lightens it and sometimes it even makes it heavier. All of those were put out to me by my doctor as being " normal ocurrences ".
Go to your doctor or gyno or w/e and schedule an appointment specifically to talk about this. There are many options and side effects for all of them. Your doctor can help you find the plan that fits you best.