I have been thinking a lot about this decision for many months. For about oh almost 10 years I’ve been on different brands of hormonal birth control. I barely even remember a time when I wasn’t. It’s been an up and down of changes and side effects.
Right now I’ve decided to switch over to non-hormonal. This is for a variety of reasons.
- At some point I will want children and my body will need time, how much I don’t know, to get back to it’s normal state of function after almost a decade
- I am through putting my body through this. I want it to just be, it’s most organic self. There’s nothing wrong with hormones, but for me it’s been too long that I have no clue what my natural body is like. Is it naturally this sad? Is it naturally this moody? I want to know. I want to reclaim my body. I feel disconnected and confused, not sure what’s real and the drug. Now that I’m at a more stable part of myself and married (eek strange writing that), I want to be the me.
It’s number two that has really convinced me to change over. Also a study that said that hormonal birth control can be linked to higher levels of depression.
And this made me question everything about myself basically.
I want to know me. Me without the drugs that have had side effects on me.