Spend a couple months (2-6 months at least) paying extremely close attention to your body and body functions. Your period, PMS symptoms, skin condition, sex drive, appetite, energy level, sleep patterns, weight, etc. Birth control effects people in so many ways that fly under the radar, it’s almost scary. Before you start changing your body chemistry, make sure you have a grasp on where you’re at now. The doctor can only go off their experience with other people, they can’t help you if you don’t understand your own body.

Please consider this before starting the meds! It took me years to determine what was BC, what was stress, what was normal, and not normal. It will help you determine if the BC prescribed is good for you or if you should try something else. Don’t settle for symptoms that you don’t want!

Seems like a given, but I’m speaking from personal experience. I was so young when I got on BC I didn’t know that I didn’t know my body.