What is best mini pill
THE MINI PILL - My story & side effects
hey guys hope you're doing well so today
I am going to be talking to you about my
experience with coming off the mini pill
I've mentioned this on Twitter and also
my weekly vlogs and a lot of you guys
have asked here my experience with not
only coming off the medication but also
what it was like on the medication as
well so quickly just really like
casually I want this video to be really
chilled gonna talk you through my
experience of yeah that so I was on the
mini pill the branding was Sarah's it I
was on that for thirteen years a really
really long time so pretty much my
entire adult life I was on this form of
birth control which I didn't realize but
affected my life in an awful of ways
over that kind of time I went on it when
I was about I must have been like 16 or
17 I can't quite remember but I remember
going and getting that in it bein option
for me because and I have a history of
migraines in my family I get migraines a
lot so does my mom and I also have a
history of stroke in the family and so
the mini pill was given to me as the
best suitable option because the other
ones can like cause those things I'm not
really too sure on the facts about it
and I was on it up until last June mid
last June so nearly like 13 years which
is an awful long time I decided to come
off it one because I wasn't having any
sex and I was like I don't know why I'm
doing this like I don't need to be on it
because I'm not having sex there's no
chance of me getting pregnant and reason
number two was because it was actually
what was causing my acne the whole time
apparently if you're not familiar with
my acne journey I will live my videos
down below but basically I had acne for
ten years and it pretty much started
around the same time that I started
taking the mini pill I remember every
time I went to my doctor's to repeat my
mini pill prescription
I'd say could that be the cause of my
acne and they were always like no no no
until I went to a dermatologist about
Roaccutane it wasn't until then that he
was like your birth control has been
causing your acne the entire time this
is a bit of a tricky subject I know it's
really different for everyone and I know
that a lot of girls when they go on the
pill it really clears their skin up but
for me it have the complete opposite
effect
so this is just my story in my
experience on it so back in June I
started breaking out a little bit around
my chin area even though my acne was
under control at that point I was still
like you know what I'm just gonna come
off it so me my sister missus has also
been on it for a really long time we
both decided at the same time we were
gonna take our last pill and that was
that I tweeted about this I leave the
tweet that I posted here and I had so
many replies from you guys and I also
did an update it's been a month since I
stopped taking my mini pill at my skin
it's perfect one of my gramma shoes is
gone and my skin is smooth over the moon
will make for with video about this soon
hashtag Hackney who's that video now
basically I didn't think that I had many
side effects whilst I was on the mini
pill because I didn't know otherwise I
hope that makes sense so it wasn't until
I actually stopped taking it when I
realized how much it had been affecting
my life and that's what I want to talk
to you this bit about now so I guess the
first thing I really noticed coming off
the pill was how much it had suppressed
my sex drive over the past 13 years I
have never had a high sex drive and I
just thought that was normal I thought
that was me but it wasn't until what
I've stopped taking that that I I'm like
not to be crude or rude but I've been
horny a lot and I was like oh this is
like this is much more enjoyable than
this is what I actually should feel like
so now I enjoy sex a lot more I want it
a lot more and I never ever have ever
felt like that before so that's one
thing one way in which being on the mini
peel affected me the second is my mood I
didn't realize this but I am pretty sure
being on serozha caused me a lot of um
not mood swings but I actually think
quite a bit of depression I have been on
antidepressants before whilst I was on
the mini pill and and I always just
thought that I was prone to feeling
quite down and sad and depressed and I
thought that was again just me but no
ever since coming off the pill my mood
has been a lot more joyful except around
that time of month when I'm actually
experiencing PMS and all in all its
glory
oh yeah I felt a lot more positive about
things and I feel like I can manage and
handle
a lot more I definitely feel a lot less
anxious as well so that's another way in
which I didn't realize but it was
affecting me my skin since coming off
has been good now I should say that
around that time of the month my skin
does break out a lot around this area
which I think is the hormonal area but
because I know it's hormonal when it's
not acne and it's not all over my face
and that it will fade after a couple of
days or weeks then it's so much more
manageable to deal with so that's
another thing and I guess the fourth way
in which it's affected me coming off it
is having a period again now being once
I was there I never had periods for
pretty much 13 years I probably had like
two periods a year those periods did
last a lot longer than normal ones I
remember having a period which lasted
like three weeks once and they were
really heavy when I did have them but
yeah for 13 years I never had PMS and I
never had periods which was amazing so
I've really been experiencing what it's
actually like to be women since coming
off I've experienced the real anger and
frustration in the days of running up to
having a period and then the joyfulness
afterwards I am like riding the wave of
my cycle and it feels great to be in
control of it in terms of coming off it
my periods went back to normal really
quickly sorry if this is TMI and I'm I'm
just talking about this really honestly
I've always been really honest about
everything I talked about on my channel
whether it be acne or dating and stuff
like that or even when I had a
colonoscopy where they stick a camera up
your bum
I've logged all of that as well and I
know that those videos have helped so
many people so this is kind of why I'm
making this video so I came out on my
period five days after stopping taking
the pills so my cycle went back into
like motion really really quickly and
ever since then and my periods have been
a bit weird but they're definitely like
happening I've been tracking them all on
the clew app this is not sponsored so
I've never been able to do this before
so I I'm just like loved it
nice little gadget my cycles aren't
normal see it's coming off but I have
heard that it takes like six months to a
year for it to actually get back into
more slow my cycle has been like from 20
days to 24 days I think that average
it's like 28 so I'm quite a lot under
that it means but I have quite a few
more periods than my friends and but I'm
like aware that that's gonna be a thing
for a while what whilst my body kind of
my hormones I guess kind of settle down
I also wrote a couple of notes in the
days like the first week after coming
off the pill just to track if I felt any
differently because I know that some
people can get like fountain pregnancy
symptoms in the days after stopping
taking the pill and they can feel really
nauseous they can actually feel like
their body's a little bit pregnant I
have written day one and he was
absolutely fine didn't feel anything
different day 3 I had stabbing pains in
ovaries written and started bleeding
also I started ok so I came appeared
three days after day four and five on
period occasional strong pains but
manageable feeling happy but also overly
emotional I guess that's another thing I
have been feeling and very sensitive in
the days leading up to my period I think
like any girl does around that time of
the month so yeah that's just a brief
quick overview of how it's affected my
life over the past 13 years and how it's
been since dropping I have got a
question for you guys now what birth
control are you on because I went to a
sexual health clinic a couple of days
ago to talk about different options not
reception because I started having
regular sex again hooray um but I am a
little bit fed up with using condoms to
be honest but I'm also petrified of
getting pregnant not ready for that at
all yet and I left that appointment
feeling really frustrated at the lack of
options available for me because I don't
want to take hormones I don't want to be
putting more hormones into my body
especially because I know that that can
cause acne and I am petrified of getting
bad skin again like I just don't think I
would want to risk it
the only option that was non hormones
was the coil but again I'm really scared
of having that because one of my best
friends had it and it was horrendous for
her so yeah I would like to know your
experiences on birth control and I was
introduced
to the injection which i think is really
interesting I hadn't heard about for I
know that a lot of people have gotten
really wealth implant but basically I
want to know what birth control you are
on and if it is caused acne in you I
think that will help me kind of way up
my options and decide a lot easier I
hope this has helped some of you who
also going through the same thing and
are thinking of coming off the pill or
thinking of going on Sara set all in all
like it I like didn't have one pregnancy
scare so it definitely did the job often
not getting me pregnant which is always
a good thing I guess if you don't have
those major side effects I think that
acne one was definitely the one that
interfered with my life the most and
also leave me a comment down below let
me know if there are any other types of
videos you would like to see because I'm
a dive like I've got a bit of a brain
freeze about it and I don't know what to
film yeah that'd be really helpful again
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