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Changing Birth Control- PCOS

  • 04-05-2017 4:02pm
    #1
    fieldsforever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭


    I am changing birth control back to Dianette because I lost weight with diet/exercise easier on it and was less hairy on Dianette. Currently, I am on Yasmin which was great for a few months, but now does not help with PCOS symptoms.


    The doctor I saw said to take Dianette the first day of my cycle which is the first day of the period. I am reluctant to do this because I would skip a period. I do not want to skip a period; I am very lucky that this period(started today) is exactly on time and happening with ease. Usually, it is five days spotting and four days with very heavy flows. This time, it seems like my period is going to be a steady flow by Friday.

    My questions are:
    1. Is it usual for people to start taking a new birth control on the first day of the period, which will cause a skipped period?

    2. Will there be negative side effects if I wait until this period ends before I take the new birth control?


    I ask because I was pretty skeptical of this doctor. I've had thrust for a while now(tried one dose of fluconazole and the terrible pessary) and she took a smear, second one in a month's time. I asked if it was necessary to have so many samples, if the one that came back only two weeks ago, verifying thrush. She said "I want to send your bugs in again for second opinion." Thrush is not bugs though, it is fungi. I told her that and she rolled her eyes and said "Same difference." There's differences in fungi and bugs. I mean, one's a creature. So yes, I am asking on here as I do not know if I should follow the advice of that strange GP. Her calling fungi bugs happened the same day she told me to take the birth control the first day of my period.
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