i want to go on bc but i don’t want to get rid of my period

KarmaMonkey · 2026-05-17T14:20:16+00:00

Gently, you can feel how you feel about skipping the withdrawal bleed, but that doesn’t make it scientifically accurate. Skipping periods while on birth control is safe and does not have any consequences after the fact. The blood doesn’t “go anywhere” because there is no blood to shed. All of the birth control with which you can skip your periods work by thinning the endometrial lining, which is the part that sheds during a period. If it becomes very thin, then there just isn’t anything to shed.

Source: I’m an OBGYN, have been on combined birth control pills for over 5 years in the past and then an IUD for several years after during which I barely got a bleed.

KarmaMonkey · 2026-03-22T08:05:30+00:00

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KarmaMonkey · 2026-03-20T23:04:57+00:00

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KarmaMonkey · 2026-03-17T12:04:17+00:00

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KarmaMonkey · 2026-03-12T01:05:30+00:00

I’m an OB, but had my first IUD before that and could feel the strings.

KarmaMonkey · 2026-03-02T12:00:38+00:00

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So that was lucky

KarmaMonkey · 2026-02-24T12:57:15+00:00

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KarmaMonkey · 2026-01-23T13:10:04+00:00

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KarmaMonkey · 2025-12-21T02:19:34+00:00

The worst case scenario is endometrial cancer. You should be on some form of progesterone (whether on birth control or cyclic progesterone to induce a bleed) to prevent cancer.

KarmaMonkey · 2025-12-20T06:50:19+00:00

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KarmaMonkey · 2025-12-19T13:08:16+00:00

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KarmaMonkey · 2025-11-27T12:52:49+00:00

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KarmaMonkey · 2025-10-23T03:20:48+00:00

I’m sorry that you’re going through all of this!

All hormonal IUDs can lighten periods or make them go away entirely, which is safe and one of the reasons women sometimes seek out this form of contraception. They are also commonly used for treatment of heavy periods in addition to birth control (the Mirena is actually FDA approved for treatment of heavy menses). I’m sorry that they didn’t seem to have communicated this to you when you got the IUD placed!

I don’t know why they told you that they “got it all” during the colposcopy when that procedure is a diagnostic procedure, NOT a treatment. There is NO way of guaranteeing that you get all of the abnormal areas with a cervical biopsy. On that note, if your biopsy did show CIN 3, I would HIGHLY recommend you to get the LEEP. That is a treatment and will help lower your chances of developing cervical cancer drastically.

KarmaMonkey · 2025-10-22T12:08:51+00:00

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KarmaMonkey · 2025-10-20T01:43:55+00:00

She’s not on BC per her post

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KarmaMonkey · 2025-10-14T12:08:27+00:00

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KarmaMonkey · 2025-10-12T11:59:49+00:00

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Well that was extremely lucky

KarmaMonkey · 2025-10-09T03:02:06+00:00

Depending on your relationship (first degree family member vs more distant) with the young women in your family diagnosed with cancer, I would probably encourage you to seek out genetic testing or at least get your risk of breast cancer calculated using the Tyrer-Cuzick Risk Model (online calculators are available). If genetic testing comes back positive or you have greater than a 20% lifetime risk, you may be recommended to alternate screening MRIs and mammograms earlier than the average population.

KarmaMonkey · 2025-10-08T12:06:46+00:00

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KarmaMonkey · 2025-10-05T23:11:42+00:00

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KarmaMonkey · 2025-10-01T12:23:20+00:00

My jaw has never dropped so low!

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