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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 244594" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Just throwing this out there; seems you've already had your questions answered. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">It took a couple of tries with BCP's for my difficult child. I put her on them because she was becoming increasingly provocative in her conversations with guy friends on AIM, followed up by a sexual assault by a stranger and I just thought it was time (she was 15.5). The other reason was for her serious PMS. Combined with her antidepressant, the BCP helped quite a bit, though not as successfully as we had thought. I should add that her period was always regular and on time, like a clock, same as me. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">After years of her taking the BCP and constantly missing days, and suffering with break through bleeding, we sought out something better and with less maintenance. I asked about the depo-provera shot and the gyno said it sometimes made the moods in BiPolar (BP) patients worse. We gave it a try and guess what? It has been AWESOME!! The only time my daughter has PMS is about a week before her next shot is due. Otherwise she's doing very well on it. The only thing about the shot, however, is that some people, like my daughter, never get their periods. She has not had a period is nearly 7 months. There is always the chance she may get one mother of a period, but it's doubtful at this point, unless she stops getting the shot.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">My point is that every pill, though typically the same, varies in it's ingredients and just like any other drug, may affect your daughter differently than most others. There are a lot of drugs out there that promise the moon, but don't deliver. Your daughter's genetic and chemical makeup can greatly affect how any drug will help or hurt her. After a very thorough physical with a gyno and a lengthly discussion of her options I'm sure you can find a pill that will help with her moods as well as her irregularity. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Best of luck.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 244594, member: 2211"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Just throwing this out there; seems you've already had your questions answered. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]It took a couple of tries with BCP's for my difficult child. I put her on them because she was becoming increasingly provocative in her conversations with guy friends on AIM, followed up by a sexual assault by a stranger and I just thought it was time (she was 15.5). The other reason was for her serious PMS. Combined with her antidepressant, the BCP helped quite a bit, though not as successfully as we had thought. I should add that her period was always regular and on time, like a clock, same as me. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]After years of her taking the BCP and constantly missing days, and suffering with break through bleeding, we sought out something better and with less maintenance. I asked about the depo-provera shot and the gyno said it sometimes made the moods in BiPolar (BP) patients worse. We gave it a try and guess what? It has been AWESOME!! The only time my daughter has PMS is about a week before her next shot is due. Otherwise she's doing very well on it. The only thing about the shot, however, is that some people, like my daughter, never get their periods. She has not had a period is nearly 7 months. There is always the chance she may get one mother of a period, but it's doubtful at this point, unless she stops getting the shot.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]My point is that every pill, though typically the same, varies in it's ingredients and just like any other drug, may affect your daughter differently than most others. There are a lot of drugs out there that promise the moon, but don't deliver. Your daughter's genetic and chemical makeup can greatly affect how any drug will help or hurt her. After a very thorough physical with a gyno and a lengthly discussion of her options I'm sure you can find a pill that will help with her moods as well as her irregularity. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Best of luck.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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