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PCOS - Birth Control?

posted 4 months ago in TTC
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jlcadm November 11, 2011 Daytona Beach, FL

Hey everyone,

Just wondering what birth control you're taking, for the people with PCOS?

Thanks in advance :)

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SpecialSundae April 21, 2012 Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK

I'm using a Mirena coil and it's helped a lot with the really bad periods. I'm quite lucky that when I was off hormonal birth control (copper coil) for a year that my cycle was quite regular so that was really reassuring.

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Future Mrs. Martin August 21, 2010 London Ontario Canada

I am on the Nuvaring (oral birth control doesn't hold my lining properly and causes mid-cycle spotting) which means I am also on Spirolactone as Nuvaring doesn't have an adrogen blocker like many PCOS oral BCP have.

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Scribbles June 1, 2012 Auckland, New Zealand

Yasmin BCP - recommended to me by my gyno. It's not Pharmac-approved in NZ (government subsidised) in NZ but the generic they had me on (Estelle, which I've now heard has changed names) made me into a moody raving harpy so the $70 every three months seems worth it.

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Sunshine1810 October 8, 2011 New Hampshire

I'm TTC now but was using the Nuvaring. I really liked it.

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Candy_Nee May 1, 2010 Raleigh, NC

I have PCOS and took all kinds - Ortho tricyclen, Loestrin 24, Femcon, Yasmin, Yaz, and others I can't remember the name of. For me, Yaz was the best. I react really weirdly (hello psycho! LOL) to artificial hormones and that one seemed to be the easiest on me. But, when my doctor put me on BCP after being diagnosed w/ PCOS, he gave me the choice, saying there wasn't really one I should be on b/c of the PCOS. If that makes sense.

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BluegrassBridetoBee May 19, 2012 Lexington, KY- Wedding in Fort Wayne, IN

I took Yasmin for years and then I stopped having my period all together and was REALLY bloated. So I tried about 3 different kinds, and went off the pill for awhile. I ended up on a really high estrogen pill (but I forget the name) that was working well, but I just got the Mirena.

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