About Brigid Kowalczyk Expertise Natural Family Planning issues related to fertility and health
Experience Your period is a natural normal function of your body. Protect your fertility. Birth control pills are bad medicine for something that is delicate and easily destroyed. Now is a good time to quit using the pill.
Question Hello,
My doc recently put me on birth control loestrin fe for what she suspects is endometrosis ( a constant left side debiltating pain that has been going on with my cycle for about 14-17 days a month starting with my period) This has been going on for a year. They did not find anything in blood tests or ultrasound yet? My doc said she wanted to start me immediatley on birth control and started me eight days after my period started. I had a bad reaction after three days I had tingling in my arm, swollen fingers and difficulty breathing and sleeping. I also had a crushing feeling in the top of my chest. I am 35 years old and quit smoking four months ago. I went off six days after I started it. I wanted to ask
1. Is it possible to have any relief from my symptoms after three days ( my pain in my side subsided early on about day 9 or 10 after my period as it usually does about 12-17 days after my period)
2. I am bleeding this morning this is two days after I stopped the pill. why?
The nurse told me ( my doc is out this week) i did things wrong.
1. started the pill to late into my cycle ( I do not know why the doc advised me too?) and that there is NO way that the pill could of helped my endo pain after three days and that taken it did nothing? Does taken a pill for six days do anything?
If it did nothing as the nurse suggested why do I have my period today? Why did I have a terrible reaction? I also had PERIOD cramps before this bleeding started this morning. I have not had PERIOD cramps for years. My cyclical pain that I get monthly does not feel like cramps it is something else) I normally would not be due for at least another ten days?
Thanks I am so confused? I have another appt., with my doc on July 21st
Lori
Answer I, too, am mystified as to why the doctor would have you start the pill at any time but the one recommended by the manufacturer. Of course, the pill, which is a steroid, has an effect even if you only take it for a few days. It sounds like you had a pretty severe reaction which doesn't bode well for continuing to take it.
I never recommend the pill for anything, I don't think it "cures" anything. It just adds another layer of hormones, artificial ones at that, to your system. If you have endometriosis there is already a problem with hormones and the real need is to find out what the problem is and fix it, not just cover it up.
My recommendation is to search for natural treatments, ways to increase your health and wellbeing and ways to avoid taking artificial hormones or other drugs. You don't really want to do that if you can avoid it. I imagine you have a lot of suffering, I've heard endometriosis is or can be very hard to deal with. I wish you the best. I haven't done much research on it but I feel confident that there are ways to aleviate some of that suffering with natural approaches. God is in control here, your body wants to work naturally and you have to help it to do that. Best of luck.
