More of the bad

My current stash that is quickly depleting 

Today and yesterday wasn't a good day, period wise.

On Monday, all seemed to be clearing up well. The bleeding was tapering off and I thought it would all clear up by the end of this week. God, was I wrong.

At 3 am Tuesday morning, I awoke to that horrifying feeling of a dam about to break. I could also feel clots, big ones. To make matters worse, I strained the lower left side of my back pretty bad, so I could barely get out of bed fast enough or bend down to get the towels I would clearly need.

The few short steps to the bathroom made it clear that my best option would be to clean up in the shower. I took off my clothes and it was horrific! I had at least 4 huge clots spilling out and my pajama shorts were drenched. 

I took a shower, cleaned up and painfully prepared for a repeat occurrence during the night; and I'm glad I prepared because it happened again!

Since this has happened before with getting Skyla removed, I didn't freak out too much but was quite annoyed between the whole mess and my back. I waited to go into work, to make sure this wasn't going to happen all day. Luckily, it didn't although I am still bleeding and I did just pass one pretty big clot.

However, I had a repeat occurrence last night, although I handled it much better and it wasn't as bad. 

One problem is that I don't know how to manage this amount of blood loss. It leaks everywhere, tampons are almost useless, and towels don't go well with my skinny jeans. Last night, I tried  Soft Cups, which are basically disposable menstrual cups and can be worn for 12 hours (at least that's what they say).I think I didn't insert it right, but I get better at it everytime I try. Here is hoping that tonight I finally have it down. I also ordered a reusable menstrual cup but it won't be here until Thursday. Until then, I'm hoping these Soft Cups help, at least for overnight accidents.

Oy, this has been a tough week and it doesn't appear to be getting any better.

Post-Implanon day 4

So, my body is taking the break up with Implanon kinda rough.

Within the first 24 hours, I became pretty nauseous, which impaired my ability to sleep, which caused me to miss class both from lack of sleep but also nausea. Now, the nausea is gone but I'm tired all the time. At first it wasn't so noticeable what with an upset stomach but now I'm really feeling it. I'm hoping that by Tuesday I will start feeling better has the hormones leave my body, I'm just thankful the weekend is coming up so I can recover a bit.

I've started the research process with Merina and of course, there are tons of terrible reviews but I have learned to just take those for what they are worth. I won't know until I try, so I'm just going to go with it.

That said, I am on the fence as to which IUD, Paraguard or Merina. Basically; hormones or no hormones? I want to wait and see if I can't lose weight in a more timely manner, then decide which one to get. My gyno really put the pressure on to get the IUD ASAP, especially if I want to stay period free, but I can handle a flipping period for the love of <insert less offensive term here>!! Right now, I'm leaning towards waiting it out. I'm not to thrilled with all the post Implanon side effects I'm having, so I want some space from hormones for awhile.