Birth Control - No Longer an Option

When it comes to birth control do you feel like you have a lot of options? Now think about being 35 years old and over.  Still feel you have as many options?  What if your body doesn't agree with the hormones it has and adding more just compounds your problems? 

I've been on the pill. Lots of them. I've used condoms, the NuvaRing and an IUD.  I've had cystic acne, hair loss, weight gain, violent, sweeping mood swings, depression, migraines and so much more.  You name it, I've probably had it as a result of the various types of birth control I've employed.  They work for a while and then they don't. If I don't stop using them the problems just get worse.  The last one, the Mirena IUD that is supposed to last five years resulted in so many problems I even began to have trouble driving.  So much for the five year plan. I had it removed after nine months.

After almost fifteen years of birth control, two kids and my mid-thirties approaching I feel out of options.  I don't want any more children.  I know that there is a non-hormone IUD.  However, I'm slow to jump on any birth control bandwagon just yet.  I no longer trust those options and quite frankly it makes me angry that I'm the one who has to seek out the solution to this problem all the time. Where is the always debatable male birth control option?  Why hasn't that been created?  When will they begin to tow the line too?  I can't believe that it isn't wanted.  It certainly is needed.  I know I am not the only woman who has so many issues and feels so abandoned.

When it comes to the subject of birth control these days I look around at all the options available over the counter and through my doctor, who seems to hawk them like a used car salesman, and I feel completely out of options.  It's enough to swear me of S-E-X until menopause. 

Original DC Metro Moms post.  Victoria blogs daily at The Mummy Chronicles and Mummy's Product Reviews.