What is the right birth control for me?
Alot of good advice already. I just want to add to the ‘just get on the pill’ train. I was in a very similiar situation as you when I started taking birth control and was absolutely convinced that I would never remember to take a pill every day. Depo Provera was very new at the time and I jumped at it. I was on it for 3 years, in that time I thought that it was the greatest thing ever, although I was ignoring my horrible depression, the 50 lbs I gained (yes I ate well and exercised regularly) and the horrible thing it did to my body. When I finally came off of it, it took several months to get back to normal and my menstrual cycle is still VERY, VERY messed up, it has been 7 years. My next birth control was the patch, it was the new BC on the block and once again I jumped at it. It was much better other than being unattractive and annoying. Until I realized my skin was having a bad reaction to it. To this day the areas where I wore the patch still break out regularly, and never did bef
