By Fallon

A while back I wrote about wanting to either quit taking my birth control or switch to a new kind. Well I ended up going to my appointment a little more than  a week ago and ended up getting a new type of pill. My check up went fine and she gave me a lab sheet to check my potassium since Yaz can affect that, but it came back fine as well. The only reason I never switched sooner was because it did a good job at keeping me from getting pregnant.

Well anyways I ended up getting Microgestin FE 1/20. I wanted to try Loestrin 24 FE but my insurance didn’t cover that and it can cost 50 something dollars a month so she gave me the generic to Loestrin 1/20 FE which is covered. The FE part just means that the last 7 pills of the pack are iron.  I have been taking this new kind for maybe 10 days now and haven’t really had any bad symptoms, I think I might even feel better but I just hope that they do their job as well as Yaz did.

It’s amazing how many different types of pills exist out there as well as other contraceptives and it can be so frustrating to  find the one that works best with your body.. if one of them doesn’t seem to be working well with your body and you have given your body the 3 months to adjust and you still don’t feel right then you should probably talk to your doctor about trying something else instead of waiting the way that i did.