As of this morning, when I cheered to see 129.8 on the scales, I can now join this thread! Though I'll give it a few days to settle in before changing 130s to 120s in my profile. I reckon I started at 140 or possibly even higher, and didn't get the scales until 136, so it's really nice to be seeing a different second digit for the first time.
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Originally Posted by inteventionn
i had taken regular BC pills before and had terrible PMDD, so i went on Depo-Provera (sp?) and that made me crazy in the first month but leveled off after. however, upon my research on it i found it can lead to osteoporosis at a young age. that's ridiculous and im very angry that my doctor didn't inform me about that before i started it, because my family is already known to have weak bones. also, the shot left a dent in my thigh!! so it looks like a big cellulite spot! so i need a diff. BC, preferably one that will give me my nice C cups back (im now a small B, which would be fine if they were in proportion to my body!!)
I'd suggest getting a copper IUD, as they don't affect hormones at all and are one of the most effective methods of contraception in . (Unless you already have terribly painful and/or heavy periods, in which case you're not a good candidate. However, if you haven't seen your natural cycle since you were in your teens, don't assume it'll be the same, they usually settle down after that.) Then you can take whatever treatment for the PMDD you like, including hormonal methods, and it won't affect your contraception. I have PMDD too, and have been tried on Cerazette, Prozac and Valium. The Cerazette is a progestogen-only pill, and I honestly don't know why they're still pushing it for PMDD as it's more likely to make it worse. (Even more delightfully, the gynae I saw never once did the things you're meant to do for a diagnosis, such as taking a symptom history, and when I didn't do well on her pet drug, decided that I obviously didn't have PMDD and washed her hands of me.) Prozac can be taken for half the month, i.e. cyclically, or the whole month; unfortunately I didn't do well on that either. Then my GP gave me some 2mg Valium to take on the days when the PMDD is bad (thankfully I don't get bad PMDD consistently, I'll get a few bad days per cycle at most) and it worked beautifully for me. If I hadn't had a copper IUD throughout all of this, we'd have been constantly chopping and changing with my contraception and the hormonal fluctuations would have been still worse. It's also quite possible that the hormonal contraception you were on before made the PMDD worse, that's quite common.
As for breast size, have you tried exercising your pectoral muscles? A friend of mine got really worried because one of her breasts was suddenly larger than the other. Then she realised it was because she worked in a pub at the time, and had been pulling pints with her right arm alone. So she made sure she was pulling pints with both arms, and they evened out again. I think she went up a cup size.
