New! Determined! Angry! (That's the testosterone)

KnitOrMiss

Brainy moment. I guess the chart itself was only one page. I had another one that was 3 pages. I don't remember the differences between it...

https://www.nhpri.org/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/NOTE_2_TABS_Contraceptive_Comparison_Chart_01_2012_2.pdf

I think that was where I found it originally...

Originally I was told to try Yaz or Yasmin, but some of the increased warnings from my previous med put me off of that idea. How weird. The one I'm taking now, I guess I was completely backwards on it. It's in the bottom third or fourth of the page. In the middle, it's called Microgestin (Loestrin in the first column, I think). I was told it was a higher estrogen pill, but apparently it's not, which actually does make me feel better, though it's a bit offputting that it is high in the androgen category (I take the second, higher dose). I don't really have high androgen systems at this point that I can quantify.

It did take bumping me up to the higher dose for me to get and feel level. Originally, I'd been on Ortho-Tri-Cyclen-Lo. That was pure he!L. Let me tell you. The different hormones every week was just pure chaos for my already overtaxed system. I had breakthrough bleeding for months, I feel like I was in perpetual PMS, and I was always moody/about ready to kill someone, etc. So yeah. They moved me to the other one...and it's done me really well since then.

But, I think I mentioned before, I do take it constantly, to suppress cycles as I have other complications, plus I'm in my 40's, so my baby factory is closed, but for surgical reasons, I can't do the permanent options.