Blood Results - Birth Control Message Board

FromSqueaky · 05-01-2007, 11:32 AM

I've gained 22lbs in the first 2 months when I switched from Desogen to Loestrin FE 24.
I just picked up my test results. I have not been able to loose weight no matter how hard I try. So I went and had my hormones and cortisol checked.

Testosterone 33 normal 14-76
Progesterone <0.2 normal for luteal 3.3-25.6
Estrogen 119 normal for luteal 122-437
Cortisol 11.2 normal 31.-22.4

So I have an appointment at 1:50 today for an ultra sound so I'm bringing my results and I am praying my OBGYN can fix this with script or 2. I am miserable and so tired. I'm always sleepy, I stopped going to the gym 2 weeks ago. I can not muster up enough energy to go even after sleeping 12 hours. I hate this I am always cold and it's 80 or more degrees where I live.

I was always an extremely active person. My neighbors keep asking if I am sick or if I have cancer cause I have been letting the grass grow where before I was cutting it 2X a week. I was always in my garden planting things. I even cut the neighbors yards since they are to old to cut it.

My neighbors think I am fat. One of them actually told me I was gaining weight last month. Then this month the same neighbor said "Oh Girl you gaining more weight you better stop all that eating your doing your going to explode". The neighbors on the other side of me asked me when I was due. I said due for what? They said you must be at least 3 month pregnant by now. I really wanted to shake them badly. I'm not FAT! I am a size 8. Do I feel fat YES cause I use to be a size 4 and all the weight is around my mid section.

They say that if your progesterone is off then it's almost impossible to loose weight. I sure hope my doctor can help me today. I'm a strong person but this weight issue is really close to cracking me. and and can feel a crying episode coming on. It's been 7 months now of eating 1200-1500 cal. Cardio 1 1/2-2 hours a day and not a freaking pound has come off. I am stuck ever since I changed my BCP to Loestrin FE 24 I gained the weight in 2 months and can not remove it.

This Loestrin FE 24 is obivioulsy not the pill for me otherwise my blood results would not be so off.

Gotta go get ready for the doctor. Just wanted to vent thank you for listening.

Squeaky

kittywitty · 05-01-2007, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by FromSqueaky

My neighbors think I am fat. One of them actually told me I was gaining weight last month. Then this month the same neighbor said "Oh Girl you gaining more weight you better stop all that eating your doing your going to explode". The neighbors on the other side of me asked me when I was due. I said due for what? They said you must be at least 3 month pregnant by now. I really wanted to shake them badly. I'm not FAT! I am a size 8. Do I feel fat YES cause I use to be a size 4 and all the weight is around my mid section.

That's just wrong. I've had people say that pregnancy crap to me before because when I gain weight it goes straight to my middle. If they don't know for sure if someone is pregnant or not, they should KEEP THEIR TRAP SHUT!! How would they like it if someone said that to them? I'm not on the pill anymore, btw, been off for over a year. Way too many side effects for me. Just wanted to say that I can sympathize.

[/QUOTE]It's been 7 months now of eating 1200-1500 cal. Cardio 1 1/2-2 hours a day and not a freaking pound has come off. I am stuck ever since I changed my BCP to Loestrin FE 24 I gained the weight in 2 months and can not remove it.

Squeaky[/QUOTE]

Probably what's happened is the pill has slowed your metabolism. If you go off of it, the weight will probably come right off.

FromSqueaky · 05-01-2007, 02:32 PM

So I'm back. My doctor gave me 3 options. First he said to stop taking the birth control since my progesterone levels were so low and he wrote me a script for Provera 10mg. We talked a bit he looked over my ultra sound and told me I have fibroids. I left got to my car then turned around and went back into the office. I waited by his door and the nurse asked me why I was back I told her why and she went off to retrieve him.

The doctor came up to me and asked me what was wrong. I asked him if he remembered that I was on Loestrin FE 24 he said yes but since you are not having any periods that means you are not ovulation which can the reason why your progesterone is so low. I told him I was scared of getting pregnant so he told me to take the Loestrin with the Provera. I asked him if I could just go back to the Desogen even though it gave me migrines. He wrote me a script for 6 months of Orthocept which is the name brand for Apri,Solia, and Desogen.

So now I sit here with these scripts in front of me 5 months left of the Loestrin FE 24 that I can refill. The 2 packs of Yaz that he gave me last week and 2 packs of Ovcon 35 that he gave me the month before I was switched to Lo and can not decide what to do.

EDIT last week my progesterone was 0.4 now it's <0.2

kittywitty · 05-01-2007, 10:57 PM

I'd go with the Ovcon-35. I was on that before and I never had any weight gain, except in the breasts, which for me was a good thing.

FromSqueaky · 05-02-2007, 07:20 AM

Do you know how much progesterone is in the Ovcon? I took it the first month I was off of Desogen and I gained 8 pounds. I did check my progesterone back then so I don't know if the weight gain was from the pill or the lack of progesterone.