birth control
"I have mixed feelings about this. I feel like the side effects are similar to being on the pill, but I feel way more secure about not becoming pregnant with the implant. No loss of sex drive. I'm 38 and the mother of 4 and am done having babies. But my husband doesn't want me to have a tubal ligation. Six months into having the implant, and I have gained about 20 lbs and have a fair amount of hair loss. Periods are all over the place. I have started to have some very strange leg pain and bruising on my legs that I haven't experienced before, and my husband (a physician) is concerned it might be related to the implant. So I'm making an ultrasound appt for my leg pain and may have my implant out. Really wish this would have worked for me."