Combined pill vs Male condom

I'm 39 and already had worsening of PMS and cycle mood swings perhaps due to perimenopause. I had an endometriumablation, tubectomy and endodemtriosis removal 7 years ago and was never on hormonal contraception until last year. I decided to use birth control because of these severe cycle problems, after all mechanical methods were already applied. I changed from a levornogestrel/ethinylestradiol pill to qlaira because of spotting, bloatedness and fatigue. All of this is gone. I feel lighter and not really influenced by it. As it's more of HR for me, I do not take the last two pills with out hormones, also after some months i decided not to take the two red ones which only contain 1mg of estradiovalerate because i get really a lot of cramps and depressive feelings from the hormon deficit. So basically i take pill no.1 to 24 and then start with the next package. this works great for me. i never had any spotting, also not while transitioning from the one to the other pill (i still have bleedings although i had the endometriumablation, though lighter). hopefully it will stay like that until i get into menopause. i already researched that there are HRT pills with the same substances and same dosages for menopause.

I really liked this pill - except i started getting migraines on the off pill days so I had to stop.. But it stopped my pms and it also made my hair thicken - had a lot less hair shedding while I was on it, which was nice as I have fine / thin hair.

I felt it was very effective at preventing pregnancy because I lost almost all interest in sex and the few times we had sex, it was painful, I sometimes bled. I don’t know if the thrush was directly related or down to trying to sort the dryness with oestrogen cream and changing products. I didn’t have any other side effects but after 9 months I had to stop using this. I moved to a mini-pill and a month into using that my libido is improving as is the dryness - the last time we had sex it was almost pain free.

Breasts grow a lot. Lots of headaches. Little sex drive. Bleeding after intercourse. Very sore back. Weight gain

this is a test

me and my partner have always had problems with using condoms from durex, but now trying skyns condoms, i will never go back. They don’t have that weird smell and me nor my partner could even feel as if it was there! 100% recommend

I was recommended dretine and I've not looked back.

Potentially safe

You would need a lot of lube as it is not naturally liberated.

I have no problem apart from feeling friction more quicker then using without a condom.

I am happy using the male condom as it does not effect my hormones nor cause massive physical issues.

I like to use them because they don’t affect you / if you have had bad experiences with hormonal birth control in the past

My partner uses a male condom which comes with no symptoms as it is not harmonal. However, I struggle with intense ovulation symptoms that ranges from lower abdominal cramps to spotting in mucus. This started 3 years ago (age 25) and first occurred periodically but for the past year it has been almost every month. The mucosal spotting is not heavy and does not require pads. However, it use to last only 1-2 days but now it extends 3-4 days.