Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My 13yr old went on it for PMDD and she skips placebo weeks as instructed by her pediatrician. I wish I had this as a teen. No more periods, no more hormonal fluctuations, no more buying tampons/pads. It’s been 8 months no issues. No weight increase either. I hate that misconception
Seriously. Imagine not having to have periods as a teen.
I want so badly for my daughter to get a Mirena. Mine has been literally life altering. I think my career actually took off around the time I stopped losing three functional days a month. But I worry a lot about the trauma around insertion, and whether she could tolerate the hormones.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My 13yr old went on it for PMDD and she skips placebo weeks as instructed by her pediatrician. I wish I had this as a teen. No more periods, no more hormonal fluctuations, no more buying tampons/pads. It’s been 8 months no issues. No weight increase either. I hate that misconception
Seriously. Imagine not having to have periods as a teen.
I want so badly for my daughter to get a Mirena. Mine has been literally life altering. I think my career actually took off around the time I stopped losing three functional days a month. But I worry a lot about the trauma around insertion, and whether she could tolerate the hormones.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My 13yr old went on it for PMDD and she skips placebo weeks as instructed by her pediatrician. I wish I had this as a teen. No more periods, no more hormonal fluctuations, no more buying tampons/pads. It’s been 8 months no issues. No weight increase either. I hate that misconception
Seriously. Imagine not having to have periods as a teen.
Anonymous wrote:My 13yr old went on it for PMDD and she skips placebo weeks as instructed by her pediatrician. I wish I had this as a teen. No more periods, no more hormonal fluctuations, no more buying tampons/pads. It’s been 8 months no issues. No weight increase either. I hate that misconception
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I went on the Pill at 12 for dangerously heavy bleeding and stayed on it until 40, only coming off to TTC. No issues. However, for cramps she can get prescription strength motrin or the doc can recommend how many OTC motrin to take.
11 yr old's mom here.
did you have fibroids? what was causing your heavy periods? what happened after you went off? was your cycle still heavy?
Anonymous wrote:I went on the Pill at 12 for dangerously heavy bleeding and stayed on it until 40, only coming off to TTC. No issues. However, for cramps she can get prescription strength motrin or the doc can recommend how many OTC motrin to take.
Anonymous wrote:Instead of pediatrician, go to a Adolescent Gynecologist. Our pediatrician consulted an adolescent gynecologists to prescribe the pill to help with the initial heavy bleeding - but had also given us a referral to an adolescent gynecologist for follow up.
Anonymous wrote:I feel like anything we can do to ease a kid's pain is worthwhile. I sure wish my parents had taken me seriously, rather than accusing me of being dramatic when I literally collapsed. Talk to the doc, but I think the blood clot risk is mostly for smokers, and I've never seen a study about reduced fertility (outside of the obvious.)
However... my daughter tried both the patch and the pill for her menstrual misery, and both made her sick. She threw up a lot on both of them. I think the doses are just too high for young teens.
Now she has a medication that she takes only during her period which reduces the severity of the symptoms. It's not a cure, but it's an improvement. Maybe ask the doc about that?