Beauty Tips For Body Care
TLDR: Got Liletta (hormonal IUD similar to Mirena) in June 2018. Getting it removed next week due to unrelenting, painful cystic acne.Hi everyone, I wanted to make a post in the chance anyone who is dealing with a similar issue stumbles across this. First I want to give a major disclaimer that this is just MY experience with Liletta. One of my best friends is on it and she has had great luck with it. Everyone is different.Before I got Liletta put in, I had been on the depo shot for a few years. While on it, and before beginning it (depo was the only birth control I’d ever tried before getting Liletta), I enjoyed relatively blemish free skin. I washed with a standard, gentle cleanser and only experienced a few pimples a month.After Liletta, I noticed fairly quickly my skin taking a turn for the worst. I have gotten pimples in places I never have before (temples, around eyebrows, around mouth and chin) and the pimples seem to be of a different breed entirely (painful, inflamed, under the skin). Once one is conquered, another three take its place. It has been a truly miserable time.I currently use Alba acnedote face wash followed by the acnedote astringent, then Cetaphil oil control moisturizer. I use the Aztec healing clay mask every few days and exfoliate at least twice a week. These things have helped slightly, or at least kept it from getting too much worse. However, I have stuck it out for roughly 7 months, and while I have read other people claiming that the side effects settle down around a year, I simply cannot deal with it anymore.I started a new job a few months back that requires me to be talking to different people throughout the day and my self-esteem is so low now that I have trouble making eye contact. I have made the decision to get it removed next Friday (January 18th). I feel some grief about this decision. Getting my IUD was an empowering moment for me and I cannot praise it enough for the benefits it provides. I wish there had been a different outcome for me but as the days pass and I continue wanting to cry every time I look in a mirror, I think it’s time for me to give it up.If anyone is interested, I will post back here in the weeks following my IUD removal to update whether or not I am seeing any changes with my skin. For anyone else who is going through this, I am so sorry. This experience has humbled me beyond belief and I am just hoping to get back even a fraction of the clear skin I had before.To reiterate: THIS IS ONLY MY EXPERIENCE. I am not a doctor and am not claiming to be speaking on IUDs as a whole.Good luck everyone <3
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