Nal
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My dr wants to put me on the Nuva ring to control my hormones. Are any of you ladies on birthcontrol pills at all? A help or a hindrence?
Nancy
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5dana8
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Nal I don't know how old you are but share my experience with the low dose pill.
I had & still have heavy bleeding.
My gyn put me the low dose pill.
I can trace one of my worse re-lapes to the very day I started to take it.
I have read other ladies do finr on it but wanted to to know what my experience was.
Take good care & please do lots of research on this.
Hormones play a part in lyme symptoms
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treepatrol
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My wife was put on synthroid because her thyroid was a little low it helped her. In lyme hormones can get wacked.
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nancy, I was on BC for 10 years before a ct scan discovered a growth in my liver. This turned out to be due to BC pill use!! I went off of them and 18 months later the cyst was gone. I think it might have happened because my liver is fragile (due to chronic lyme??) and couldn't process the hormones well. I have TERRIBLE periods and am anemic due to blood loss - that is why I was on the pill to begin with. However, I will not go on them again...I would rather take iron pills.
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I have been on low dose OCs for probably 15 years without problem (non-smoker). I am currently taking them uninterrupted for 3 months, then withdrawing for a week. Again...no problems. I have noticed lighter cycles and less cramping since lyme treatment. Not sure if that is spurious, but it is nice nevertheless!
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My LLMD put me on Seasonale about 3 weeks ago to see if it would help my terrible insomnia, which gets substantially worse the two weeks before my period. I am 51 and really didn't want to go on oc's. So far, so good. I'm at the point in the month that my sleep would be terribly disrupted and it's not yet. Sleep meds were not helping. It was either this or go on one of the older antidepressants that often help with sleep. I decided this was the lesser of two evils.
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shazdancer
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If you are taking antibiotics, they may interfere with the efficacy of birth control pills, or the Nuva ring. Though the Pill may help regulate your hormones, you may need an additional birth control method while you are on antibiotics to prevent pregnancy.
Check with your doctor or pharmacist.
Regards, Shaz
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I've been on NuvaRing for about a year and a half, and I love it. It's the easiest form of birth control I've been on, and is the one I've been most comfortable with. I think it's helped lessen the cyclical lyme flare-ups considerably, plus I'm having far fewer migraines since I started using it. I wish more women knew that nuvaring is an option, because it's so convenient, and it allows you the same degree of contraceptive protection as the pill, but with lower doses of hormones. I tried the pill and the OrthoEvra patch prior to starting on NuvaRing, and NuvaRing has really been the best option for me.
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trails
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I was on Yasmin for 2 years. It was good and bad.
Good= GREAT for skin--no pimples for years! And less flow during menstruation. (never had heavy periods anyways) Also good to know when exactly period is coming for planning things.
Bad= YEAST YEAST YEAST. Most of the hormones for birth control/hrt are estrogen heavy and that means you have tipped your vag scale over into the estrogen friendly balance which means vag yeast infections. Many women have them chronically while on BC pills. I had to have surgery to get off the pill, so that I could start the major ABX, coz if I was still on the pill and taking ABX, I'd be in lotsa discomfort!
I am not that familiar with the NUVA RING. Maybe find out if it is estrogen heavy?
Good luck, Trails
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Hi Nancy, I agree with trails, I had to stop taking the pill because of horrendous yeast problems - my GP emphatically told me that the pill didn't cause thrush but miraculously it went away when I stopped taking it, what a coincidence!
I am convinced that a lot of my problems were brought on or exacerbated by taking this synthetic hormone. I am now left with a body that doesn't seem to know how to regulize it's hormones and all the problems that that brings.
Also, Nancy, I see that you have stomach problems. I had the most awful IBS while taking the pill (20 years of not managing to work out why!!), oestrogen does not have a good effect on the stomach. Now I only get it every couple of weeks instead of every day!
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