birth control
"I'm 43 years old and I went the 3 years on Nexplanon and just had it removed a week ago.  Let me say I never got pregnant on it, so it did it's job.  However, at the beginning I bled so much and so long, that intimacy was few and far between.  And that sucked because it did not drop my sex drive, just the ability to have it.  Then after about a year, my period went to about 7-9 straight days a month, every month, with sporatic spotting to bleeding in between.  I used to be very regular 2-3 days a month, every month and that was it.  So I was not one of the fortunate ones that got loss of period.  I was not aware of the weight gain issue until I started reading some of the comments here.  I gained over 40 lbs in the 3 years."