Birth Control Update

[eiblyn]

I had my doctor's appointment today with my specialist to talk about changing my birth control. Everything went well and he was very supportive. He wants me to try a monocycle birth control (meaning the hormone level stays the same for the whole month) and see if it takes care of the depression issue. If it doesn't, he wants me to have a series of normal pap smears and then he'll put in an IUD if I still think it's necessary. He talked to me about the failure rate for women who have never had children and explained that it's more difficult to place and has a higher rejection rate. What made me happiest is that he didn't act like I am a child and he took my decisions seriously. I'm planning to stay on the monocycle birth control until I have completed the series of normal pap smears he wants me to have. Thank goodness for doctors who think people can make their own decisions even when they are young....