This is in response to a warning I received on this post: http://community.livejournal.com/birthcontrol/4808359.html My intent was not to scare her or provide false information. My intent was to inform the poster that the Mirena IUD does, in fact, contain hormones, and even though it is a very small dose it is still quite possible to have negative side effects. The side effects that she says she...

Hello, All! A thank you to all of you who take part in groups like this--it has been so helpful to post and read on birthcontrol and iud_divas My period has come early and I am happy to say that I am scheduled to get an IUD inserted this Thursday! However, I get the feeling that this isn't my real period. My period wasn't due for another two weeks. I just completed my previous period...

HWithdrawal may not be significantly worse than condoms with perfect use ; I'm not willing to post that in birthcontrol largely because it isn't a question. How much do you trust Guttmacher?

In response to the comment I was left on this post: http://community.livejournal.com/birthcontrol/4759526.html I don't understand honestly. Either time I've been warned (I wasn't aware that I was 'warned' the first time--you may want to in the future make it clearer) has only been because I didn't expand on my words. The first time I said a phrase mildly sarcastically and you (or another mod, I...

Hey all, just a few quick questions for you. I'll ask the condensed version above the cut, then describe things in greater detail below the cut, in case anybody needs more info. In short - can somebody who has been on the patch once before, a few years ago, with no adverse side effects, suddenly develop a host of bad reactions to it the second time around? Why would that happen? I was on the patch...

Greetings VPers, I'm back with another problem--oye! I posted this entry a few weeks ago about my period popping up in my third week of OTClo following a huge move and life change. [I posted it here too but I could only find the BC post]. Most of you seemed to agree that it was the move and the stress that kicked it into me early. However, here we are just a mere 24 days later with another similar...

Hello everyone! I joined this community a little while ago, and I've been commenting here and there, but this is my first actual post. I'm 25 and queer identified. I hadn't had any flesh -PIV sex until last August, and for that one time thing, using just condoms was a-ok. I am now kind of dating (read: sleeping with regularly) a cis-man, and I'm looking for an additional method to condoms, which...

I was searching on Google for something, and though maybe I could find some help here since I'm not the only one who has Mirena.. I just finished the last of my 2 week prescription of Ciprofloxacin for my re-occuring UTI last Wednesday (I had a serious Kidney infection in Nov 07, and have been having on-again, off-again UTIs ever since) My doctor had told me that it could lower the effectiveness of...

hi there! i saw this community referenced through birthcontrol  and thought i'd swing by and check it out. i've scanned the latest posts and several of the tags, and i must say, this is wildly reassuring to find this community! so much info i had *no* idea about re: treatment and management. i'm preemptively thinking this post is going to get long, so i'll try to cut-tag as i go along :) so...

I was banned from birthcontrol like a month or so because I responded to another person's post trying to help. I was told after two weeks, I could ask for the ban to be lifted. May my band be lifted? I actually do currently have an important question to post on birthcontrol , and I'm past the ban time.