Yaz

[Aggie_Ama]

Back to the OP, is Yaz your only option? Or other BCPs? I've been on Mircette for over 15 years and LOVE it. Low dose BCP and I haven't had a period or PMS since I started taking it.

Before I had to take medicine for my tremors that kick my liver in to hyper-drive I took Mircette. I can't remember anything negative. I had shorter periods (4-5 days instead of 7), low PMS, no cramping (I used to skip class they were so bad), no spotting. Unfortunately I now have to take Necon (high estrogen).

[Melalvai]

Thanks! That's funny about the baseball player. I thought it was a funny name because I had a friend in grad school named Yaz. That was his nickname, it was short for a long, difficult to pronounce Japanese name.

My doctor prescribed it for the cyclic moods, hemorrhoids & other problems. We don't need birth control because my husband is fixed and I had a hysterectomy 4 years ago. I got to keep one ovary, which I was EMPHATIC about, because I did not want to go on hormones at age 31.

But I'm considering going on hormones anyway because the monthly effects are getting bad.

I asked my husband if he'd be interested in both of us getting sex changes, so he could have these problems for a while. He declined. He didn't think I'd be nearly as good a caretaker as he is.

I read on Hyster Sisters that some people got migraines from Yaz. I am prone to migraines, at the high-progesterone low-estrogen times of my cycle. And then other people said their migraines stopped.

So, I guess the only way to find out what it'll do to me, is to try it.

I'm still on the fence. I really don't want to take hormones. (My research is breast cancer prevention, and if there's one thing that prevents breast cancer, it's getting off the hormones!)