I am wondering, how many of you ladies have been on/are on birth control, what type, and how it has affected your Crohn's Disease, Colitis, IBD, etc.?
I have been reading many posts in which ladies are saying birth control made their intestinal issues worse. I am terrified of this. I have been having seriously bad cramps, but that's nothing. What's really killing me is the moodiness. I'm not exaggerating when I say, two whole weeks before I get my period, I feel like a monster. It starts about two weeks out, and gets worse, until the period starts, then I start to feel okay again.
I work in a coffee shop, and I have been working in coffee shops for almost ten years. Sometimes, it's hard. Dealing with the public, demanding customers, rude strangers, it wears a person out. I should find a different line of work, I think. I feel like I could jump over the counter and strangle someone for taking too long to order, during this pms time. I just experience such intense irritability, I don't know what to do with myself. I have been taking tryptophan, but it just barely helps.
I don't even want to see or talk to any of my friends, or my husband during this time. It's bad, everything just irritates me to the core.
I want to go on some form of birth control to help me with these hormones.
I asked my GI doctor if there would be any problems, and he told me it would be totally fine. But, I read about so many of you having problems.
I've been doing pretty well. I really do not want to cause myself complications by trying out birth control.
Any advice or stories would be so greatly appreciated.
I have been reading many posts in which ladies are saying birth control made their intestinal issues worse. I am terrified of this. I have been having seriously bad cramps, but that's nothing. What's really killing me is the moodiness. I'm not exaggerating when I say, two whole weeks before I get my period, I feel like a monster. It starts about two weeks out, and gets worse, until the period starts, then I start to feel okay again.
I work in a coffee shop, and I have been working in coffee shops for almost ten years. Sometimes, it's hard. Dealing with the public, demanding customers, rude strangers, it wears a person out. I should find a different line of work, I think. I feel like I could jump over the counter and strangle someone for taking too long to order, during this pms time. I just experience such intense irritability, I don't know what to do with myself. I have been taking tryptophan, but it just barely helps.
I don't even want to see or talk to any of my friends, or my husband during this time. It's bad, everything just irritates me to the core.
I want to go on some form of birth control to help me with these hormones.
I asked my GI doctor if there would be any problems, and he told me it would be totally fine. But, I read about so many of you having problems.
I've been doing pretty well. I really do not want to cause myself complications by trying out birth control.
Any advice or stories would be so greatly appreciated.