[Mes T]

As big of a supporter of the IUD as I am... (and most of you know I'm in fact a HUUUUGE supporter)... I'm starting to come to terms with the possible fact that it's not for me.

It makes me bleed twice a month, and I have nearly impossible to get rid of yeast infections.

Last month my doc put me on Yaz to try to regulate the bleeding. Well, it made me bleed (lightly) EVERY DAY of the past month.

I told myself I'll give this IUD + Yaz combo a couple more weeks at best, and after that, one of them's got to go.

Question is, which one should I get rid of? I can't do away with both right now as I'd have no other protection (not sure if cervical caps even exist in this country, which is what I would want to try next).

Should I get rid of the IUD and be left with uncertain side effects with Yaz (would I still bleed daily on Yaz without an IUD?)...?

Or should I get rid of the Yaz and go back to my original side effects with the IUD?

This is all... REALLY... friggin'... FRUSTRATING.

[Yazwoman]

Mes,
It stinks that you are having so much trouble! I didn't know you could use both the IUD and hormonal pill at the same time. Anyways, if this is still your first month or so on Yaz, I'd try it for one more month (If you can handle it) and see what happens. When I first took Yaz, the first month I spotted a bunch. Then in February I spotted lightly till I got my 'period' on the placebo and it went away, have you taken the placebo pills yet? I guess you could always get off that if you still are spotting and try the IUD again, but as you said, I don't want you to be unprotected with nothing!

[2Bpositive]

As big of a supporter of the IUD as I am... (and most of you know I'm in fact a HUUUUGE supporter)... I'm starting to come to terms with the possible fact that it's not for me.

It makes me bleed twice a month, and I have nearly impossible to get rid of yeast infections.

Last month my doc put me on Yaz to try to regulate the bleeding. Well, it made me bleed (lightly) EVERY DAY of the past month.

I told myself I'll give this IUD + Yaz combo a couple more weeks at best, and after that, one of them's got to go.

Question is, which one should I get rid of? I can't do away with both right now as I'd have no other protection (not sure if cervical caps even exist in this country, which is what I would want to try next).

Should I get rid of the IUD and be left with uncertain side effects with Yaz (would I still bleed daily on Yaz without an IUD?)...?

Or should I get rid of the Yaz and go back to my original side effects with the IUD?

This is all... REALLY... friggin'... FRUSTRATING.

I think I posted this somewhere else, but I will say it again. I'm sorry your iud is not agreeing with your body.

[heylala]

Don't give up

I feel your frustration, I LOVED my IUD but it gave me horrible painful bacne so I decided to take it out and try something else. At one point in my qwest they gave me Alesse, which turns out to have levonorgestrel (which is the progestin) which is what Mirena IUD has and brought back my acne. Anyway, my point is that each pill has a different type of progestin and they have different affects on different people. Yaz has drospirenone which may not agree with your body, if I were you I would ask to try at least one other kind before throwing in the towel. Good ones for breakthrough bleeding are...Yasmin®, Demulen® 1/50, Zovia® 1/50E, Ovcon® 50, Desogen®, Ortho-Cept®, Estrostep® Fe, Loestrin® 1/20. Since you already tried yaz maybe another of these will work.