Negative Emotional Effects of Hormonal Birth Control

Hi MatchaBunn, I feel for you! For some women hormonal birth control is hideous - it was for me! I had such a bad time with it that I eventually dropped everything and just asked to have a copper coil fitted for contraception. I was warned that coils could make my heavy, painful periods more so, but was surprised to find it did the reverse. If a coil doesn't suit, you could try oestrogen patches with progesterone pessary: because they are delivered very close to source, the dose is smaller and has less effect on your body overall. I found that was a good option when I needed hormone treatment to help manage other menstrual related symptoms and had far fewer side effects than any other method.