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▲ 2 r/birthcontrol

Got off the IUD Mirena today. Started Lo-Lo. Need advice.

My first Mirena experience was amazing. I had a period for a whole month when I got it, then never got it again. No pregnancy, no acne, no weight gain.

Replaced it 15 months ago and I’m always spotting or bleeding all the time, acne like crazy, super itchy boobs. I was over it. My doctor was also puzzled why it didn’t work well the second time. Alas, I told him to get rid of it.

I asked him about the Lo-Lo, he asked why I’m asking about that one and I said because it’s low hormones, my best friend was on it and skipped all her periods with it and really liked it.

All that out of the way. IUD is out today, I took my first pill two hours after so I don’t have a real period (I think?)

If I did want to become pregnant, does the pill affect how long it would take?

I’m in a really good spot in life and do want to get pregnant eventually.

And if anyone has experience skipping periods, let me know. 15 months of it, I’m so over it. Had to throw away all my nice underwear and buy all black cheap pairs.

My normal periods are extremely heavy, but it’s generic. Going to bed I would need to use a super plus tampon, pad and lay down two towels.

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u/Amberlights101 — 9 days ago
▲ 587 r/TwoXChromosomes

**TW** SA. I don’t know how to deal with my friend’s completely outrageous triggers.

Edit: I want to clarify this is legit not a joke post, I honestly don’t know what to do here.
I want to add, she’s always been extremely hypersexual, but this is all very out of the blue. It’s exhausting and I really want my friend back.

I’m a victim, for anonymous reasons, let’s say my attacker was a fast food employee (real job is much more public service). I was diagnosed with PTSD, went through lots of therapy, and I still struggle with it sometimes. I work on exposure therapy, and looking for the good things fast food employees do. But I’ve been through hell with it. I completely lost touch with reality at points, suicide attempts.
I’m in a good place now.
My best friend is saying she had something happen 15 years ago. Listening. Valid. She has triggers. Valid. She tells me when it happened. I remember being at that party, when she was being very, very sexual with her boyfriend in front of everyone and dragged him to the bedroom, and proceeded to have extremely loud intercourse.

This has been a very new thing. She’s claiming suicide every week now, she’ll tell me she HEARD he has stumpy toes and now she can’t look at stumpy toes without wanting to end it all. And it’s a brand new trigger.
I try to give advice, in a mature way and she’ll say “off to go have sex with my partner now! I’ve had 800 orgasms this year!”.

I’m not sure what to do here, because it’s bringing me down when she constantly asks about my past, and I’m happy to help. But I swear I have a list of more trigger words than “okay” words at this point.

I don’t want to cut her off, but I also don’t want to offend her by laying down some rules.
But I can’t even tell her happy news in my life without hearing “happy for you. New trigger, he likes taco bell. Cant watch tv anymore because of commercials”.

Edit: I want to clarify this is legit not a joke post, I honestly don’t know what to do here.
I want to add, she’s always been extremely hypersexual, but this is all very out of the blue. It’s exhausting and I really want my friend back.

https://imgur.com/a/xyYwP6m
Some texts for clarification. They don’t own a guitar or piano.

**I also want to say thank you ladies for hearing me in this. My situation was brought very, very high up. Interrogations like crazy with the SIU, and news articles. Comments online saying I was a slut asking for it (I was wearing a baggy hoodie and track pants). It took me over ten years so stop caring what people think because they weren’t there. So thank you all, so much for hearing me. I’m extremely emotional about it

u/Amberlights101 — 14 days ago