Rethinking Birth Control

I haven't been feeling well lately.  I'm tired all the time (I really mean ALL THE TIME), headachy, needing to pee all the time, tender lady pillows (you know what those are), weepy, a little nauseous in the morning (not every single day and just a little), and I'm smelling things no one else in this house is smelling.  It's been freaky.

Especially since I had Mirena put in 6 weeks after 2.0 was born.  So pregnancy is not supposed to be an option.  99% effective is 99% effective.  So I'm ruling pregnancy out for now.  I had a hard enough time getting pregnant with 2.0 and my husband and I didn't use any kind of birth control for 5 years.  If I were to get pregnant on birth control now, after all that, I think I'd just laugh until my sides hurt and I had tears running down my face.

That means my Mirena is causing an issue.  I've googled Mirena and pregnancy symptoms and found that there are quite a few women who have pregnancy symptoms with Mirena and it means there's an issue with the IUD.  So I made an appointment with my OB/GYN to get my annual check up done and I think we're going to get the Mirena removed as well.  That means I have to rethink my birth control options until September.

I really don't want to take the Pill.  I hated the Pill.  It requires me to be more mindful of taking a pill every single day, I would have a period every month (with the Mirena, I haven't had one since October.  When you have endometriosis, that's a wonderful thing), and it would make any other weight loss impossible (not that I'm having an easy time losing the weight with the Mirena anyway).  I don't want the Depo shot.  I don't want implanon.  I'm married, so I refuse to use condoms (what does one have to do with the other?  I'm supposed to enjoy my marriage bed and with a condom, that just...doesn't happen).

So what's left?  Not much.

With all this in mind, my husband and I look at our wonderful son and all I can think is that I wouldn't mind another baby right now.  I doubt that we'll get pregnant right away anyway.

So many decisions.  I guess we'll just wait and see.