why cant i take birth control with estrogen in it??

Question

the only birth control that ive had good luck with was the DEPO-PROVERA shot. all the other ones i get terribally sick and throw up all night long. ive gone to many doctors and none have been able to tell me whats going on. FINALLY my Fiance who is in pharmacy school said that i might only be able to take a birthcontrol pill that has no estrogen and only has prostrogen!! for example.. depo-provera and the mini pill. all these doctors and my Fiance who isnt even a doctor figured it out???? so why do you guys think this is?? has any one eles had similar problems??
If you havent plz dont answer just 2 say you dont know.
Thank You Girlss
im 21. my periods are always about 2 weeks late... always! and umm lets see ive tried every birth control possible.. patch. nuva ring. yasmine. ortho tri cyclin. but i havent been on anything for a year. i also stop the BC after the 1st night due to being so sick!!

Answer 1

Depo Provera is akin to forcing your body into an early menopause state.

I've been off the Depo Provera since 2000 and my hair still hasn't grown all the way back. I lost about a 1/4 inch along most of my front hair line. The rest of my hair came back and is thick and strong, but the hairline is not the same compared to what it was. In addition to the severe hair loss, I gained over 40 pounds, 20 while taking Depo and 20 after coming off. I never had a migraine before Depo and during use and for the first year after being off it, I had severe migraines at least once a week. My skin itched like I wanted to rip it off and I was hot all the time. I would get extreme vertigo with no warning. Just try staggering at work or while in the pharmacy and not look like you had a drinking problem! My bones also ached a lot. Depo has been proven to cause osteoporosis. Over a year after coming off the Depo Provera, I developed two serious blood clots one after the other. The cause was never completely determined because I had not been on birth control of any kind for over a year and my blood tests were normal. I finally had a rib removed and the clots stopped, but I will contend to this day the Depo had at least a little something to do with it. About the same time as the blood clots, I started having severe cramping and a year into it, my doctor found pretty severe endometriosis. With the resulting depression and the lack of sex from Depo you may not have to worry about getting pregnant because you won't want to have sex anyway. I know some people do just fine with this birth control, but it's not worth the chance. It takes upwards of 6 to 8 months for the effects to wear off and sometimes longer. My hair has never grown completely back along the hairline and I am having a hair transplant at a tune of $5,000.00 to fix it. I am only 35! I can't wait until Depo is researched more deeply and to someday find out what else this drug did to screw up my system.

I got the (copper) IUD (since I can't use hormones anymore due to future clotting risks). My insurance paid for it. You still get your period, but I think it's worth it.

Our bodies are made to have periods unless we are pregnant. If you force your body into an unnatural state, it WILL fight back!

Answer 2

Having morning sickness like side effects when first starting birth control is somewhat common. Normally, it does subside after regular use. That is what you might be experiencing. To see if this is true, you'll have to use the estrogen birth control for at least two to three months.
Vomiting is a very common, 6-12%, side effect.

Answer 3

It could be that your body doesn't take excess amounts of estrogen well. Another alternative to the Depo could be the Mirena IUD. That one has low levels of progestrone (and no estrogen). But I wonder why you'd have such a reaction, since birth control pretty much mimics the same amnts of estrogen. Maybe it doesn't take synthetic estrogen well.