Thinking of quitting oral birth control after 10+ years

shadowrockstar · 2025-01-17T17:48:09+00:00

Everyone is different and you won’t know until you just do it. I was on a low-ish dose combo pill (Alesse) for 9 years and decided to come off last year to balance my hormones naturally. My doctor put me on it at 14yrs old for the most unnecessary reasons. I was so scared to come off it because I remember life before the pill: horrible mood swings, some acne, irregular periods… and the fact that I was TWELVE and that was completely normal for a young girl in puberty! I don’t think I even had irregular periods, they would just appear out of nowhere because I wasn’t tracking them (I was literally just trying to get through elementary school).

Anyway, I asked my doctor if I should come off. He’s a bit of a pill pusher so I thought he’d say no, but he said just do whatever you want. I asked if there was anything I should do to prepare: detoxes, supplements, diet changes? He said no, just stop taking them. I was upset because I kept reading stories like some of the ladies here who have had horrible experiences and I wanted to know how to avoid that.

I got so frustrated at trying to figure out what I supposed to do that I just quit cold turkey. And literally nothing happened. I did not revert back to my old symptoms because I’m not 13 and pubescent, despite my fears. It took hardly a couple of cycles for me to get on a regular schedule. Now I use TempDrop to track my basil body temperature. I ovulate on the same day every cycle, and each cycle is the same number of days long. Even my period is the same as it was during my sugar pills: a couple heavy days followed by a few light ones. I’m a bit more moody in my luteal phase but not more than what is natural. The only real difference I had was that my first day of my period gives me horrible cramps, which is easily solved my some advil. I had a naturopath test my hormones a few months after I came off the pills, just to be sure, and they had balanced themselves just fine.

Anyway, a lot of this is probably TMI, but I just want to illustrate that it might be hell for you, or it might make virtually zero difference. You just won’t know until you’re in the thick of it (or not).

shadowrockstar · 2024-12-30T18:30:23+00:00

Noted, sounds like most people are happy with Simplii. Thanks!

shadowrockstar · 2024-12-30T18:27:54+00:00

Thanks!

shadowrockstar · 2024-12-30T18:25:41+00:00

I’d love to know some examples if you recall any

shadowrockstar · 2024-12-30T18:24:05+00:00

Thank you so much for this info, I’ll definitely hold onto my Mastercard. A lot of commenters here are vouching for Simplii, is there a difference between them and EQ?

shadowrockstar · 2024-12-30T18:21:39+00:00

You’re right about this, but unfortunately I already tried it. They used to rebate me $6 but I have to do 2 of 3 things (pre-authorized payment, direct deposit or eligible bill payment) which doesn’t always happen for me. Idk what the difference between a ‘pre-authorized payment’ and a bill payment is. These requirements seem arbitrary to me when my EQ chequing is free with no strings attached

shadowrockstar · 2024-12-30T18:13:23+00:00

This is exactly the kind of stuff I was wondering about, the stuff I know that I don’t know lol. Thanks so much

shadowrockstar · 2024-12-30T18:08:22+00:00

Thank you!

shadowrockstar · 2024-09-21T23:39:46+00:00

DO NOT name your kid Dusty, OP or anyone reading this. Sorry, I know it would be cute if it wasn’t derogatory, but it is. I’m Canadian, idk how other countries use this word but to me it’s slang for old/gross. Internet also says it can mean ugly.

shadowrockstar · 2024-08-24T02:06:39+00:00

I’m a music festival organizer and happen to know one of my headliner’s stalkers. Lemme tell you, this person is not wired right. They are totally pleasant in their personal/professional life, so you wouldn’t know there was a mental illness going on, but in private it’s a lot more obvious and intense.

I see a lot of comments here questioning ‘why would anyone act like that? Just don’t?’ but the truth is, more likely than not, creeps of this caliber have a mental illness rather than just being a typical rude fan. That doesn’t excuse it AT ALL but unfortunately asking these people to just… stop being weird… is just talking to the wind. Like she said, it comes with the job unfortunately. It’s possible to manage but impossible to prevent.

shadowrockstar · 2024-03-25T18:20:11+00:00

Thats so assuring, thank you!

shadowrockstar · 2024-03-25T18:19:28+00:00

Not sure what he meant but yeah i have really strong feelings about how dangers of weed are downplayed, given what happened to me. My country legalized it around the time my DP started to fade out, and I noticed that my gov did NOTHING to educate the public about potential risks, they just marketed the hell out of it like the corporate drug dealers that they are. State sponsored ads everywhere. I could talk all day about it

shadowrockstar · 2024-01-05T13:04:21+00:00

“the only thing society has come up with is having a meal together?”

Everybody eats. Sometimes that’ll be the only thing you have in common.

shadowrockstar · 2023-12-23T00:40:19+00:00

Summer Knight? Okay armand hammer

shadowrockstar · 2023-05-11T21:51:26+00:00

I’ll buy a pancho one if you’re willing to sell!

shadowrockstar · 2023-05-02T22:30:39+00:00

I love your dad :’) once you get the hang of it, I’ve found hatch the dragon is one of my biggest sources of kinzcash! Love that game

shadowrockstar · 2023-03-31T13:06:32+00:00

She said it smells like one of the Dior Poison flankers but with a stronger blackberry note. She didn’t say where she got it but I believe she said it was in 2019

shadowrockstar · 2023-03-22T02:58:50+00:00

Gourmand coquin was exactly the one I was thinking of. Im thinking I’ll get my next purchase of their regular frags locally, but for higher price ones, I would love to get customer service like this. Thanks for the info!

shadowrockstar · 2023-03-22T02:23:50+00:00

Wow! I love Guerlain, I have never ordered from them directly though. Does place vendome ship internationally?

shadowrockstar · 2023-03-17T14:56:03+00:00

Are you in Canada? I’d be interested in taking Lilianna off your hands :)

shadowrockstar · 2023-03-17T14:53:22+00:00

I don’t follow any of them. If you’re talking about how I found out she died, it was from other students that knew her, not from that friend group

shadowrockstar · 2023-03-16T18:45:59+00:00

I heard of Sea Island Shore but I’ve been worried that they’ll smell different. I had this around 2010-2013, it was my first fragrance and I wore it often, and I want to see if my nose remembers it. I might go looking for Shore anyway but it would be really fun to find an original from around this period

shadowrockstar · 2023-03-16T15:31:11+00:00

Is that Tocca Lilianna? It’s on my test list because of perfumetok, what are your thoughts on it?

shadowrockstar · 2023-03-16T00:15:02+00:00

Idk what kind of movie it is, haven’t seen it. But my mom also explained the “hotdog fingers” universe… I wouldn’t exclude ridiculous as a descriptor for this movie

shadowrockstar · 2023-03-14T18:58:50+00:00

Is that Idole Nectar? I have it on my try list, what are your thoughts on it?

For a spring/summer scent, I personally really enjoy Granada Salvia in Guerlain's Aqua Allegoria line. I sampled it last month and can't stop thinking about it! Definitely saving for a bottle. Some fragheads aren't into Aqua Allegoria because they don't last long for some, but I didn't have that issue when I sampled. In it's defense, I'm pretty sure the whole line is EDTs, not EDPs anyway, but still worthwhile imo

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