I stopped the combined pill that day and started the POP. Guess what?I have not had a migraine since and that is some months ago.
Scary story or what?
Scary indeed, Strawberry. Thanks for sharing this.
I've been recommended the progesterone implant over a coil as GPs are now considering these methods to be more reliable than the pill, and I've heard the coil can still be felt by sexual partners. Just waiting for my surgery to get back to me with an appointment!
I would warn the ladies here of depovera, as I've personally met a woman who ended up pregnant on it. She only found out once she was about to deliver!
Yes, she was a bit overweight but the point was since Depo stops your periods and she didn't experience any other symptoms (until weeks before delivery) it never occurred to her to even check. This was despite the fact she already had another child.
In my case Mirena coil has worked best (so far...). I've had the copper IUD ages ago but it would give me 2 weeks of heavy periods - impossible with this job. It has been painful to insert (I haven't had children, so maybe it's easier for those whose canal between uterus and vagina is a little more widened). But you only need to do it every 5 years. As for strings, I could feel them with the first one, but for my second Mirena the nurse trimmed them very short.
That freaked me out initially, as checking the threads now and again has been my reassurance that it hasn't fallen off or gone elsewhere. However I was told by another nurse that I would most certainly notice if Mirena was ever to come out, plus she discovered a way for me to feel the very tips of those threads too.
Personally I don't give a toss if men complain about the threads or not. If they want to have sex with women then it should be their priority to protect us and themselves from unwanted pregnancies. I don't understand why most of them don't campaign, lobby and try to develop more choices for male contraceptives - apart from condoms and vasectomy.
However, if the Mirena threads are getting-in-the-way noticeable then you can always go back to the nurse and get them trimmed. What you can't do is to make them any longer.