best birth control?

I don’t think birth control is good for a woman’s reproductive system honestly. My issue is the side effects that come along with using them

@Dajia honestly if I didn’t have to take it I wouldn’t but i’ve got 2under 2 and been pregnant using condoms🙃 and i cannot not do anymore children!

think I may just remain abstinent 😂😂

Iud hurts at first but so worth it

The IUD did not hurt upon insertion for me at allll. Slight pressure, but my cervix was numb. (I had a bad experience where I was given it after losing my baby, so my uterus was shrinking which made my IUD move and thaaaat was the worst pain of my life. Stabbing pain through my uterus) but the mirena is localized hormones so it’s not *supposed* to make you crazy like other hormonal birth controls, but I did spot/bleed on and off for the first 3 months, so that was annoying. but now I love it. Like absolutely love it and will probably have it for the next 8 years lmao

I too have bpd and once I’m finished breastfeeding my son I’ll be getting on the patch! It is hormonal but it works differently than the pill & I’ve had friends go on it while I was pregnant and they said it was their favorite experience with any birth control they’ve tried

It works by placing a patch on your skin & your body absorbs the hormones through your skin, takes 5 days of initial wearing to become as effective as promised, but I’ve heard great things from the friends who went with it as an option, and they ended up getting pregnant once they decided they were ready to try to convince after a solid months of patch wearing (they have bipolar not bpd but their hormones didn’t take a weird rollercoaster when wearing the patch!) https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24490-birth-control-patch

I use the patch and swear by it!

@Parker 又 I’d be cautious of a birth control option that distributes hormones throughout your whole body

@Monét you can be (: that’s cool. I’ve been considering trying a hormonal method since I was 17, haven’t yet, but if I’m gonna, the patch is the way I’ll be going after many years of research & speaking to those with personal experience (:

@Parker 又 that was mad condescending lmao but ok

@Monét so was your comment lol

@Parker 又 no it wasn’t. The patch absorbs through the skin and distributes estrogen and progestin while others (like the IUD bc that’s the one I know most about lmao) only administer progestin to your uterus. My diagnosis is why I chose the IUD personally. Not shitting on your research tho

@Monét I literally linked an entire article talking about how it works. So implying I don’t already understand how it works is quite condescending, no? I had a copper iud and still got pregnant when it was inside me. So iud’s over all are a no go for me personally.

@Parker 又 I didn’t read the article. I’m telling you I wasn’t being condescending so you can take what I said or not idrc atp