Pill question for the ladies

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This doctor is great. I told him that I have religious reasons for not wanting the pill and he said he would see what he could figure out. He has had tests ran, ultrasounds, more tests, then this machine that scaned my stomach area…I think it was a cat scan but I’m not sure…he has tired me on different vitamin supplements. My Mom was like this until she had kids. This has been going on for years. This is the only doctor I have found that isn’t pill happy. He acutally respects my decision to not have sex until I’m married! 👍 I honestly feel like we have tried everything. I don’t want to be on the pill but when I feel this awful, it starts to sound like a good idea. My doctor said medically I’m fine. I’m just one of the lucky women who has terrible periods. 🤷
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Actually in your case it sounds like the right hormone pill might help. If you can put your body into “pregnancy mode” it might then correct itself. Ask your Dr. if you can only take something for 9 months and try going off the hormone to see if it helped. The key here is the correct hormone - not necessarily the average BCPs that are on the market:D.

Brenda V.
 
**I’m NOT on the pill. ** I went to the doctor and he told me that he knows how much I don’t want to be on it and he is willing to try some different stuff if thats what I want to do. He said its refreshing to hear “I don’t want to be on the pill” and “I’m not having sex”. He said I was a strong person for being able to say that. 👍 Anyways, he said that he is going to try some different combinations muscle relaxers and pain pills. He said that there has to be some combination out there that will work and we just have to try to figure it out. He said the only side effect will be that I might get sleepy. I told him I would much rather be sleepy than be in pain.
 
keri6789 said:
I’m NOT on the pill. I went to the doctor and he told me that he knows how much I don’t want to be on it and he is willing to try some different stuff if thats what I want to do. He said its refreshing to hear “I don’t want to be on the pill” and “I’m not having sex”. He said I was a strong person for being able to say that. 👍 Anyways, he said that he is going to try some different combinations muscle relaxers and pain pills. He said that there has to be some combination out there that will work and we just have to try to figure it out. He said the only side effect will be that I might get sleepy. I told him I would much rather be sleepy than be in pain.
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:extrahappy:YAY! I am SO happy for you. Just remember, they may not take away the pain/symptoms entirely, but more functional for sure. I am SO happy, the prescription strength Ibuprofen is my end of cycle best friend! ;):p:D
 
Yea! I’m happy for you. There are verious natural remedies for such things, herbs, teas, essential oils. Do you eat a lot of soy? I’ve heard it can contribute to menstration issues.

But definitely try to get more testing. I would agree with other posters that something more serious could be the cause. Good luck!
 
10-15 years ago when my endo was diagnosed, they put me on this nasal spray that completely stopped my periods for 6 months, to give the uterine tissue a break, so to speak, so that it would normalize. after this i did have monthly pain and all that, but nothing that knocked me down. this also had potential side affects, but i didn’t have any. so it’s another thought to talk to your doctor about 🤷 take care keri :hug1:
 
I am so happy you found a doctor who is willing to work with you. Sounds like he/she might be willing to contact the Pope Paul VI institute. They might be able to give him information to help you figure out why this is happening and then correct it so you don’t even have to take pain killers/muscle relaxants.

Brenda V.
 
The Pill can cause you to have a stroke and according to the World Health Organization (not a pro-life or Catholic- friendly organization) is classed as a major carcinogen. It won’t matter how morally licit it may be, your body will suffer from it. So that is not the way to go.

Read Marilyn Shannons’s book. Follow her diet and supplement recommendations and take cayenne pepper tablets and chlorophyll tablets to stop and alleviate the bleeding! It works.

But don’t expect the doctor to know anything about it or to be supportive. Doctors have perhaps one hour in med school on nutrition. The med schools are financed by drug companies and so the doctors are trained to push drugs.
 
👍 Good job for standing up for yourself! You are better off without it, trust me. I took it when I was misdiagnosed for my PCOS, and I got every side effect imaginable from the pill–including a blood clot in my leg, gained 40lb in 3 mo, terrible acne, and depression so bad I was almost ready to give up. Stopped the pill, all that mess went away. The pill does nothing but cover up the problem anyway, it never solves anything.
 
Hi,
I had really, really bad cramps too and my doc prescribed 800mg of
Ibuprofen every six hours during my periods and this got me through it! I used to throw up from the pain too. Just take it with food. I was a postpartum nurse for 12 years so from experience I know this worked very well for my patients also,better than narcotics. Hope this helps.
 
keri6789 said:
OK ladies I need help. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow and from what I can tell from the nurse the doc is going to want to put me on the pill. Here’s the story.

I have awful periods. I posted a few months back about them. Anyways, I feel like my insides are being torn apart. Last month I was hurting so bad I thought I was going to pass out from the pain and my friend that was with me made me go to the er. She thought something was really wrong. They ran tests and did an ultrasound to make sure it wasn’t a cyst or anything like that. Everything came back normal. The er doc wanted to give me a prescription for the pill but I told him no. Well, this month I feel like I’m dying. I really do feel like my insides are being thrown around. I’ve tried everything…every single remedy…pain pill… I’ve googled and tried all those ideas too. Nothing helps at all. It makes me feel so bad I have to miss work and just lay in bed and cry for a couple days. The nurse I talked to said that there is a new type of birth control pill that makes you only have a couple periods a year. I told her that this is something I have to think about. I’m at work right now and my notes are at home so I don’t know what the pills were called. I know there are risks with taking the pill. I AM NOT TAKING IT TO PREVENT A BABY. I’m single and have the no sex rule. I would honestly be taking it so I won’t feel like a hurting mess every single month. I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried over the past few months to just suck it up and deal with it but I can’t. This pain is unbearable. I had to come to work because if I’m not here I don’t get paid and I can’t afford to miss work. So far, I’ve went to the bathroom and cried 4 times and thrown up 2 because of the pain.

Please help! I don’t know what to do… 😦
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Changes in diet can do amazing things to altering your cycles. There are others on these boards who know more about this, as I had a similar situation to you and went on the pill myself 😦 I will say that after 6 months I discontinued use and have not had a painful period since, so if you do decide to go the pill route it does not have to be permanent or long-term use. Short-term hormonal therapy can be helpful, but I definitely would not recommend it for indefinite use.
 
mrsfrazier said:
Changes in diet can do amazing things to altering your cycles. There are others on these boards who know more about this, as I had a similar situation to you and went on the pill myself 😦 I will say that after 6 months I discontinued use and have not had a painful period since, so if you do decide to go the pill route it does not have to be permanent or long-term use. Short-term hormonal therapy can be helpful, but I definitely would not recommend it for indefinite use.
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I’m with you. When I was in my late teens, I had such killer periods that I went on the pill for awhile and it really helped me, and with no detrimental effects. This was back in the '70’s before ibuprofen, BTW. I wouldn’t advise anyone to go on it for very long, though, esp. since there are better pain meds available nowadays.
 
I’d also recommend green tea and raspberry leaf tea. Both are good for keeping yourself fit.

Remember the Pill is not medicine! It is a poison. The liver is continually trying got flush it out, so it really in addition to the other deadly side effects, puts a lot of strain on the liver.

I once heard the late OB-GYN Dr. Hillabrand explain what the Pill does. He would give expert testimony at trials concerning the deleterious effects of the birth control pill on a woman’s body. It is horrendous.
Also, consider the environment, if you don’t care about your body’s environment. The Pill hormones are not broken down in water treatment plants and fish and other wildlife are becoming unable to reproduce. In Europe and in the US, lakes and rivers are being polluted with the birth control hormones.
 
I don’t understand the statement that people say they experienced “no side effects” while on the pill.

I’d say there’s a huge side effect…it makes your reproductive system stop working the way its supposed to.

Maybe one’s own rep. system isn’t functioning perfectly on its own, but the pill doesn’t make it work, it makes it STOP working completely.

Any “periods” experienced while on the pill are not actual periods, They are fake…they only give the impression that things are working.

In no other way in medicine, do we take pills that make our body stop working they way its supposed to.
 
agapewolf said:
I’d say there’s a huge side effect…it makes your reproductive system stop working the way its supposed to.
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That’s hardly a “side effect” – that is the intended purpose.
In no other way in medicine, do we take pills that make our body stop working they way its supposed to.
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Sorry, but that is not true. Two prime examples would be antihistamines and anti-inflammatories such as Advil, Aleve, etc. Our bodies are supposed to crank out histamine in response to certain foreign substances, and to mount an inflammatory response when we injure ourselves. But the natural effects of these responses are uncomfortable and undesirable (i.e., respiratory symptoms from histamine, pain and swelling from trauma), so we suppress those natural effects through the use of these medications. I could easily come up with some other examples, but I won’t waste the bandwidth.

Pax,
CarrieH, RN, BSN, CCRN
 
agapewolf said:
I don’t understand the statement that people say they experienced “no side effects” while on the pill.

I’d say there’s a huge side effect…it makes your reproductive system stop working the way its supposed to.
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Side effects are things a medication does to you that are not part of the reason you are taking it. For example, when you take an antihistamine, it blocks your allergic reaction. That’s not a side effect, that’s what the medication is for. A side effect would be the drowsiness you might feel in addition to the relief of your allergy symptoms.

The cessation of natural reproductive function is not a side effect of the birth control pill. It is the purpose.

The known negative side effects of the pill (mood swings, blood clots, stroke, increased cancer risk, etc.) are enough to keep me away from it, personally. Add the moral concerns, and they become distinctly unappealing.
 
Oh for goodness sake…I was using the statement as a way to make the point. The fact that stopping the reproductive system is the purpose of the pill and not a side effect makes it even WORSE!

I know many many docs who think that this pill is absolutely terrible for the body. Go to www.omsoul.com to find studies, and docs.

The purpose for pain relievers and things is to help a person get to a point (philosophically) that their body can function correctly. Get through the pain until the problem is healed.

The pill philosophically is not for that purpose. The actual purpose is to stop the body from functioning.

NFP-only docs actually try to find out the causes and heal them, not mask it with the pill.
 
Leeta said:
I’d also recommend green tea and raspberry leaf tea. Both are good for keeping yourself fit.
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I have also heard that Chamomile tea is a mild muscle relaxant, and that some people find it helps w/ menstrual cramping.

Plus, it tastes good! (At least, I think so!)
 
agapewolf said:
The pill philosophically is not for that purpose. The actual purpose is to stop the body from functioning.
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The pill is designed to mimic pregnancy in the body, which for some women who produce extreme levels of hormones, leading to more painful periods that include nausea, vomiting, and crippling cramps (chamomile tea won’t work on those!) The pill can provide a few months of relief through “breakthrough” bleeding instead of periods (this bleeding is similar to what is experienced through breastfeeding). I wouldn’t argue for long-term use, but they can be ok in some situations. They contain synthetic hormones, so the key is to find the right balance when treating a hormonal issue. With all the hormone/endocrine disruptors found today in women’s hygiene and beauty products, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that artificial hormones might be needed to get some women “back on track” so to speak.

The environmental aspect is an important consideration, although in the case I can see advocating for short term over long term use as well.
 
Hi Keri, I am so sorry you have this problem. I will also recommend the book, that someone has already recommended: Fertility, Cycles, and Nutrition by Marilyn M. Shannon. I bought the book for my PMS symptoms and am in the process of reading it. One of my niece, who is now 21 yr. old, is having problems with her cycle and her doctor diagnosed her with PCOS and wants to put her on the pill too. She is not sexually active and won’t be until marriage and has told her doctor that she would prefer not to go on the pill, but he was not as accepting as your doctor and hence she is looking for another GYN. She has an appointment with mine, but mine will also push the pill for she has to me. Anyway, I read the chapter for her particular problem and she is trying it first. It is too soon to say it is working.

I did read in this book that elevated levels of prostaglandins are known to be involved in menstrual pain and cramps and this prostaglandin can also contribute to the deficient luteal phase of PMS. Ask your doctor what your level is for prostaglandin. The author, a doctor, recommends the diet she outlined for PMS for women with painful menses as well. She does recommend taking supplements, especially magnesium (800-1000 mg/day) to help reduce menstrual cramps. Just make sure you are taking enough calcium and Vitamin D too.

I hope this helps, Keri, let me know if you want more info from this book, PM me for I don’t mine.
 
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