So I had it implanted in July and through my panic I couldn’t explain that it wasn’t completely numb so it definitely wasn’t painless which I wasn’t happy about. Also, I kept an open hole for two weeks and a bruise for a month and a half but I just take a long time to heal. Regardless, it’s been great! Not having to worry about the risk of pregnancy, taking a pill, blood pressure going through the roof because of the pill, or having a period! For the last four months. Sometime last month I had the cramping I’ve had roughly every two weeks since the implant and a little bit of faint red in the discharge. The day before yesterday I had the same thing. And yesterday, I started bleeding. It’s so much heavier today. No big deal but I was really looking forward to not having periods like other peoples stories.

So the way I understand this working is it keeps the eggs in the ovaries so that they can’t come out to be fertilized. No egg, no sperm friends, no babies.

I’ve also came to understand that the way a period begins is an egg comes out and then the rest follows. So I assumed that was why it stopped periods.

So if you have a period with it then the egg comes out? With the risk of being fertilized??? So it doesn’t work?

I was really upset yesterday because I thought that having a plastic rod shoved into my arm and feeling 85% of it wasn’t worth it and I can’t handle that. It hurt a lot and I panic at gynecologists anyway so I need it to last longer than four months.

Edit for actual question: is my way of understanding correct? Or is there a way for an egg to come out but somehow not be fertilized? Or can you have a period without the egg? Usually I can feel which ovary is “starting the fire” per se but the entire area hurts with these cramps and feels like my reproductive system as a whole is climbing out of my body. Cramps are always bad but this is at their worst.