It hasn't quite been a week yet but I wanted to make some notes so I'd remember them for future reference.
Yesterday (day 5 of cycle) when I woke up I realized I'd lost all my soreness and a fair amount of swelling. I took my first active bcp on Friday, so I've taken two so far. When I was on Beyaz, I never fully lost my soreness and swelling - even during my period. With Beyaz you take 24 active pills and 4 inactive pills, so I think that having such a short break between actives was what helped me keep my swelling and soreness more. In the future, I'm going to tweak my Sprintec to be more like Beyaz and take the 21 actives and only 4 inactives (as opposed to the 7 I'd normally take). **Please note: I am not taking birth control for birth control purposes! I do not recommend or suggest that anyone adjust their birth control like that when you're depending on it for actual birth control as it may decrease its effectiveness. Please consult your doctor before doing anything like that!!**
Last fall when I was on Beyaz I tried taking regular herbs with it and it caused me to lose all soreness and swelling I had from the bcp. I'm really hoping that's not what's going on right now, with Sprintec and PM. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it comes back, especially because I have a trip coming up in a few weeks! I just ordered a new swimsuit for the trip and I went a cup size larger because I had such great swelling at the time I ordered it. Now if it doesn't come back, it'll probably be too big.
Also, I will be not be taking my inactive pills next time and will start taking another pack immediately following the last active pill of this pack because, of course, the trip will fall right when I'd have my period. So I need to figure out what I'm going to do during that time. I guess I'll have to take PM the whole time because stopping it could cause bleeding, right? That should, at the very least, cause some pretty awesome swelling, assuming it comes back at all.
My Ro-Bust will be arriving tomorrow and I will begin using that. I really want to start focusing more on massage since I'm wanting to keep the internals low.
Yesterday (day 5 of cycle) when I woke up I realized I'd lost all my soreness and a fair amount of swelling. I took my first active bcp on Friday, so I've taken two so far. When I was on Beyaz, I never fully lost my soreness and swelling - even during my period. With Beyaz you take 24 active pills and 4 inactive pills, so I think that having such a short break between actives was what helped me keep my swelling and soreness more. In the future, I'm going to tweak my Sprintec to be more like Beyaz and take the 21 actives and only 4 inactives (as opposed to the 7 I'd normally take). **Please note: I am not taking birth control for birth control purposes! I do not recommend or suggest that anyone adjust their birth control like that when you're depending on it for actual birth control as it may decrease its effectiveness. Please consult your doctor before doing anything like that!!**
Last fall when I was on Beyaz I tried taking regular herbs with it and it caused me to lose all soreness and swelling I had from the bcp. I'm really hoping that's not what's going on right now, with Sprintec and PM. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it comes back, especially because I have a trip coming up in a few weeks! I just ordered a new swimsuit for the trip and I went a cup size larger because I had such great swelling at the time I ordered it. Now if it doesn't come back, it'll probably be too big.
Also, I will be not be taking my inactive pills next time and will start taking another pack immediately following the last active pill of this pack because, of course, the trip will fall right when I'd have my period. So I need to figure out what I'm going to do during that time. I guess I'll have to take PM the whole time because stopping it could cause bleeding, right? That should, at the very least, cause some pretty awesome swelling, assuming it comes back at all.My Ro-Bust will be arriving tomorrow and I will begin using that. I really want to start focusing more on massage since I'm wanting to keep the internals low.